Holts Mild

Brewed by Joseph Holt
Style: Mild Ale
Manchester, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Handpulled cask at the Stanley Arms, Patricroft. Dark brown with an off white head. Sweet and malty Not a patch on the hoppier version of the 1900s.. The bitter is still OK though.

Cask @ Ape and Apple, Manchester.
Dark brown...clear....thin white head...good lacing.
Aroma - very little, bit of malt.
Taste - Light roasted malt, caramel malt, light bitter hop.
Palate - very thin and watery, light bitter finish.
Overall - Boring watery beer, but taste bit above average.

Cask (RBESG 2011, London) at Nags Head. Clear red/brown - white head. Nutty, roasted, high malty, caramel, dryness, dry burned notes, light hoppy, light breadish.

Cask @ Nags Head, London. RBESG 2011. Pours dark ruby amber with a small creamy head. Grain, hay, caramel and paper. Medium to thin body.

Cask at GBBG 2011. Amber beer, small beige head. Malty fruity aroma, grapes and figs. Malty flavor, some licorice and tar, fruity, and with some bitterness.

Cask (GBBF2010)
5 Slightly lactic aroma, a touch dry.
4 Dark, small head
6 Apple retronasals. Some marzipan, but without the sugar.
2 Watery, carbonation low. Rather dry.
11 Not at its best, maybe old. Too dry for our taste.

Cask@GBBF2010. Deep ambery brown colour with a small beige head. Aroma is fruits, roasted malts, caramel malts, some liquorice and chocolate. Flavour is roasted malts, some dark dry fruits, chocolate and mild notes of ashes.

Cask at the Old Monkey in Manchester. Rich caramel-flavored dark malt, with good hopping to go along. Still rather light at 3.2%, but good flavor. Slightly sweet with a very dry hop finish, more hops than I was led to expect for a mild. Nicely drinkable.

Cask. A red-brown beer with a lazing tan head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet malt with notes of caramel and some roasted malt. The body is light.

(Cask at Ape & Apple, Manchester, 22 July 2009) Dark brown colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of dark fruit, caramel and chocolate. Roasted, malty taste with caramel, burnt malt and dark fruit. Light body, mainly dry. Well roasted and rather tasty mild.

UPDATED: MAY 27, 2010 Cask, Maltings, York. A pleasure to re-rate this after what must have been an off cask last time. This is a fine chocolatey dark ruby mild, with a balanced bitterness creeping in and a malty smooth finish. I could really have drunk a lot more of this.