3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
one of the best milds around
not too sweet
right balance
bottle not too bad either
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
First tasted this in the Last Post, Paisley (JDW) in April 2008. Cask, handpump dispense. Ruby black in colour with a thin white creamy head. Nice roast malt in the short aroma. Thin oily mouthfeel and good lacing. Dark malts give a dusty burnt toast note early on but this fades to give a roast coffee and sweet caramel flavours laced with juicy blackcurrant fruit. Slight dusty hop prickle noted in the dry earthy aftertaste. Finish is malty with a dry toasted almonds on the palate. a decent tasty mild and well recommended.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Wetherspoons, Macclesfield. Dark brown with thin beige head. Not bad at all, certainly has flavour. Tobacco, coffee, chocolate. Quite liked it.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (GBBF2010)
7 Lovely treacly aroma
4 Deep red, brief head
6 Simple caramelly, but a bit chalky
3 Seet but watery. Some jam in the finish - do I detect bacon too?
12 Adequate as a mild. Jam implies a flaw creeping in, so probably could be better.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask@GBBF2010. Deep ambery brown colour with small off-white head. Aroma is liquorice, mild ashes, some roastes malts, mild nuts and chocolate. Flavour is being quite much the same with a big coffeeish and chocolateish finish. Nice stoutish mild ale.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask.
Caramel and malt nose, copper, small custard head. Flavour has a fair malt presence, nice woodiness, a bit of apple and red plum. Light bodied, well balanced and pleasantly bitter. A good session.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Brown with soapy cream head. A decent amount of flavour in this, there is a roasty caramel, toffee note, some sweetness and some fruitiness. Thinnish in the finish, but pretty reasonable.
2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ The Rain Bar, Manchester M1. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty caramel aroma. Slightly roasted malty caramel flavor with some hints of chocolate. Has a roasted malty caramel finish.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (gravity) @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester, England.
Clear medium to dark brown color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, roasted, chocolate, butterscotch notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat to soft. [20090124]
4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Handpulled cask at JDW Hatch End, Harrow, during spring international beer festival. Newly tapped cask produced a lovely fresh pint with dense off white head. Grainy aroma, wonderful comlpex taste for a low gravity beer. Chocalate, good coffee and roasted grains with a refreshing balancing hop finish. One of the best examples of a dark mild I have tasted anywhere.
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