Hobsons Mild

Brewed by Hobsons
Style: Mild Ale
Cleobury Mortimer, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

[Cask at GBBF 2004] A brown beer with a small brown head. The aroma is very sweet, while the flavor is sweet roasted with notes of caramel.

Tasted this in the Saltcot, Saltcoats (JDW) in October 2007. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear dark garnet in colour with a thin creamy white head. Strong roast malt aroma long in intensity. Smooth creamy mouthfeel and superb lacing. Mixed malts complex gives a rich digestive teabiscuit base with dry raisin fruit notes. Dry hop prickle present in the dusty aftertaste. Roasted hazelnuts present in the dry moreish finish. an excellent session mild and well recommended.

From cask. Pours dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is toasted malty and slight caramelish. Bitter and light herbal hoppy. Bitter, roasted malty, breadish and dry caramelish. Ends dry and bitter, roasted.

Cask. Dark brown, thin white head. Roasted aromas, malt, chocolate, faintly smokey, yeast, cloves? Dry, light to medium bodied, low bitterness. Malty, roasted flavours, chocolate, coffee beans, yeast, faintly hoppy. (2011-08-04)

Half, from cask@The White Horse at Parsons Green, London. A finger of beige foamy head with excellent lacing, resting on a ruby-shaded dark brown body. Smell of light toasted and doughy malts. Faint pepper and dark dried fruits. Sourish-sweet malt flavor with mild roastedness and buiscuit and choco tones. Fine earthy bitterness. Very light body, yet kind of sharp on the palate. Sourish, light bitter ending. Quite thin, otherwise a decent mild.

Cask at the White Horse, London. Pours a dark ruby-brown, clear, with a mild, white and foamy head. Malty aroma with light roast and mocha. Sweet flavor with roasted malts, bread, light candy and some very faint, earthy and roasty bitters. Light to medium in body with fine carbonation. Lightly sweet to finish with more roasted malts and mild cocoa. A solid, straightforward mild.

Deep ruby-brown body. Low, bubbly beige head. Roasted aroma of dark malts. Roasted chocolate malts in flavour. Thin and diluted on the swallow, but alright for a low alcohol mild. Cask, well kept half pint, before noon at White Horse, London 5 Oct 10.

Cask på White Horse, Parsons Green 5 Okt 10. Dyp rubinrød. Lavt luftig skum. Forsiktig sjokoladearoma. Smaken brukbart fyldig med nøttepreg. Svakt syrlig bitter ettersmak.

Cask. Clear orangey brown with an off-white head leaving laces. Roasted, lightly coffeeish nose. Light body, flat, hard roasted malt and some coffee accents. Dry and lightly hoppy finish. 160110