3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Dark mahogany colour. Mild bready raisiny malt aroma. Mid sweet with light but firm body and clean mouthfeel. Slight salty hop bitterness cuts through the thin layer of caramel and chocolate. Coffee-like finish. Good enough well drinkable mild, but a bit clean.
1 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 2/20
Cask @ Bon Accord. Nasty fag ash aroma, very dark brown colour. Tastes like cold ovaltine. Not for me.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ Bon Accord. Ruby red-brown colour, medium off-white head. Aroma of roasted malts and coffee. Flavour of roasted malts, coffee, coffee cream. Slightly smokey, dry and bitter finish. Surprisingly well bodied for a 3.5%. Good drinkable.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask, handpump at The Chequers, Chipping Norton, Oxon 10-05-10 Pours dark brown with very little head to speak of. The aroma was a touch malty, with some caramel and also a slight sour note there. Taste was nutty and caramel but methinks that this was a little tired there was again a slight hint of sourness in the mouth. Not great will re-rate if I see it again. A5 A3 F5 P2 Ov10 2.5
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the Fishermans Cottage, Reading. Deep chocolate brown in colour with a thin loose beige head; aroma of richly roasted chocolate malt; thin in the mouth with a sweet lactic malt flavour and a dry finish. An OK Mild.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Bishops Arms, Malmö. Pours a dark brown color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty smooth chocolate and caramel aroma. Roasted malty chocolate flavor with hints of caramel. Has a smooth roasted malty caramel finish.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
A Mes rate. Gravicask at London Drinker.
Mahogany brown with no head at all. Faint malty stuff all round. Very dull indeed. A little caramel and a dull bitterness in the finish are about all it can muster. Boring as hell. I can see why they don’t bother with this very often.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask. At Royal Oak, Borough. Guest tap - the barman saw me taking notes and really, REALLY encouraged me to try this. Clear deep copper pour, with a mottled creamy tan head - looks nice. Dry, leafy aroma, cocoa and light roast caramel. The taste was very weak - I let it warm up a long time, but nothing really emerged - vague chocolate and what almost seemed like watered-down maple syrup. I know it’s a mild, but this was too mild - weak body, hardly any roast, thin mouthfeel, it finished very quick and dry. On the positive side, you could drink about a gallon of this - if you wanted to - and not feel it much.
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