Earl Soham Gannet Mild

Brewed by Earl Soham
Style: Mild Ale
Woodbridge, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Chappel Beer Fest, Gravity. A very tangy and musty flavour. Colour is sewer brown in one light and glowing raspberry in another. A muddled and unimpresive mild. Peppery finish. Varnish aroma.

Cask at GBBF. Dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma of grain and licorice with a touch of vegetables. Sweetish licorice dominated flavour with a roasted note in the finish

Cask at GBBF 2011, Day 1. Pours a clearish, red-brown with a tan, bubbly head. Mild roast and toast nose. Pretty sweet flavor, some roast and an overall mild flavor with faint fruits. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Some light roast to finish, toasty bread, very faint burnt sugar. Nice.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear dark black brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, coffee. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, sweet caramel - chocolate, roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110804]

Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours amber with a small creamy head and lacings. Vague roast, fruit and chocolate. Smooth.

Cask at GBBF 2011 - Tuesday. Clear amber - offwhite head. Soapy, caramel, nutty, fruity, berries, campfer, caramel, ryebread, roasted notes, light sweetness.

Cask at GBBF 2011. It pours mahogany brown, with a thin white head. The nose is subtle: caramel, nut, light roasted malt and earth. The taste is caramel, earth, nut, wood, roasted malt and light toffee, with a dry finish. Thin body and low carbonation. A decent mild.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Clear red brown coloured with a small beige head. Fruity and light roasted aroma of hay with notes of caramel. Fruity flavour of hay with notes of caramel and roasted notes. Fruity and roasted finish.

14th July 2011
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Clear very dark brown beer. Light pale tan suddy head. Light semi dry palate. Smooth fresh minerally malt. A little chocolate and an undertone of red fruits. Finishes smooth and semi dry. Good flavour for it’s abv.

From cask. Pours dark brown with a small white head. Aroma is roasted dark malty and slight breadish. Bitter and dark malty flavoured. Bitter, mild acidic and dark roasted malty. Ends bitter and dry into the finish. Bitter and dry malty finish.

Cask at Cambridge Blue, Cambridge. Poured out of sight, so not sure if it was pump or gravity dispense. Dark brown. Slight ash and cardboard aroma. Thin, slightly grainy taste. Slight dryness. Fairly good low gravity mild.