Harvest Moon Prince Williams Mild Manor

Brewed by Harvest Moon Brewery (NJ)
Style: Mild Ale
New Brunswick, New Jersey USA

Serve in English pint

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Draft from backlog. Pours cloudy amber with off white head. Nose and taste of creamy sweet malt and light toast. Hints of cocoa. Lighter than medium bodied.

creamy and mild with some dark fruit and a character of vegetable in the finish. mild in every way and soft with some toffee taking too much charge with this one. a bit of vanilla.

Served on draft at the brewpub under the Elmes name. Pours a hazy amber color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of sweet caramel, earthy and floral notes. The taste is earth, fruity notes, caramel and a faint bit of toast. Medium bodied.

On tap at Harvest Moon as Elme’s Mild Manor. Pours a deep earthy brown amber with a thin white head. Sweet malt and toast, caramel on the nose. Roast and cocoa. Sweet and malty, nice roast comes through over some sweet dark fruit. Very nice. A bit boozy and warm which surprised me until I saw that it was 5.8% and not under 4% like I might expect from the style, but it still works. Long slow finish with more plum and prune, more sweet malt and warming alcohol.

On draft at the brew pub. Light brown color with a white head. Malty and nutty. Nice classic representation of a an English mild.

Half Pint at the Brewery as "Elmes Mild Manor". Pours in a pale coppery brown with some haze and a wispy whitish head. Aroma is a minimal waft of hoppy sugars and bland malt. Flavors are similar. There’s a strong, slightly metallic hop edge to a very generic, biscuit-like malt base. Yeast profile is minimal, thankfully. It’s too sweet, too heavy and too strong for the style. It doesn’t have that ragingly drinkability. Mediocre.

Pint on tap in New Brunswick, deep amber/brownish appearance with little head. Aroma was malty and a little doughy but also strong nuttiness/caramel noted. Taste was well balanced between sweet maltiness and bitterness. Palate was a little rough with a decidedly bitter aftertaste. Unique beer- didnt really know how to categorize it as i was drinking it at the bar- but nonetheless a good experience.

Draft. Pours amber orange with an off white head. Sweet caramel malty aroma. The flavor has a butterscotchy sweetness with some light floral hoppy notes. Decent.

Tap @ the brewpub. Listed as Elmers Mild Manor. Poured a mostly clear copper color with a white head. The aroma had light notes of oranges and caramel. A little nutty. The flavor was malty with citrus and a bitter finish. Light to medium body with a dry finish.

Poured a red amber color with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of crystal malt, citrus fruits, and light floral hops. Taste was quite sweet, caramel, citrus, earth, and light citrus hops.