Golcar Dark Mild

Brewed by Golcar
Style: Mild Ale
Huddersfield, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask Conditioned, at the Battersea Beer Festival, 2004.
Dark brown like a good Mild should be this was consumed with the Ryburn –Best Mild, at which point we (chris_o, myself and SilkT) were debating who had the most mild rates. Well for all those interested. SilkTork (58), is the King of Milds! Minor places go to: imdownthepub (45), Oakes (41), ompher (30), spiesy (26). Scores are as at the time of the debate i.e. they don’t include milds from the night.

Tasted this at the Troon Beer Festival in October 2011. Cask, gravity dispense. Dull black in colour with a thin open buff head. Strong roast malt notes in the long aroma. Thin mouthfeel and poor lacing. Dark malts give a strong range of flavours with roast coffee, plain chocolate and dry liquorice coming through. Dry dusty prickle of hop resins add to the bitter aftertaste. Finish is mildly sweet with old fashioned treacle toffee notes evident. An excellent session mild.

Cask at GBBF 2010. A brown beer with a red shine under a brown head. The aroma has notes of sweet and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of roasted malt. The body is light.

250ml cask real ale. Pours opaque dark brown with a small, off-white head. Aroma of roasted caramel malts and taste is much of the same, but sweeter and with hints of coffee.

(Cask at Gallows Real Ale Festival 2011) The beer poured deep dark brown and clear. Its head was small and white. Aroma had roastedness, chocolate and sweetness. Palate was medium bodied and dry. Flavours were home brew, burntness, sweetness and bitterness. Aftertaste was burnt and bitter. Promising aroma was quite utterly spoilt by the taste that was like burnt homebrew.

Cask at the Gallows Bird, Espoo, Finland. XIV Real Ale Festival.
Dark brown colour with red hue and small frothy tan head. Roasted malt and lots of coffee in aroma. Flavour is roasted malt, chocolate and much milder coffee. Full flavour for a Mild.

Cask at Gallows Bird RAF2011. Mild coffeyish and chocolatey nose. Dark reddish black colour. No head. Sour coffeyish taste. Slightly waterly. Hoppy bitterness at the end.

Cask @ GBBF 2010. Pours a dark brown almost black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty caramel aroma with some bready hints. Roasted malty caramel and coffee flavor. Has a roasted malty caramel finish with some bready hints in the aftertaste.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 10, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark roasted, light coffee. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, cold coffee, chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100803]

Malty chocolate with hints of iron and seawater. A tad thin, hints of richness and marmite-y savoriness. An easy tipple.

Cask@GBBF2010. Black colour, small brown head. Aroma is fruits, raisins, some wood, mild toasted notes as well as liquorice. Flavour is liquorice, mild toasted malts, some slight smoked wood as well as fruits and raisins.