Lighthouse Brewery Dicks Dark

Brewed by Lighthouse Brewery (NZ)
Style: Mild Ale
Nelson, New Zealand

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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500ml bottle. Ruby copper in colour with a very large thick beige head with red flecks through it. Mild aroma with malty caramel notes that are pleasant, light and airy. Flavour is mildly bitter and a bit tart and vinergary but light on the palate.

Large frothy biege head on top a misty red/brown beer aroma rich chocolate cvaramel flavour like a London porter not a good taste to me sour like to the finish no thanks.

Pours dark brown with red highlights, thick white head that persists down the glass. Nose of toffee apples, rich dark choc and a smidge of roasted malt. Lovely dark fruit flavour with dark chocolate overtones. Some coffee and a slight bitterness in the finish. Very smooth and drinkable.

It’s a dark mild! Initially I was a little disappointed, but I warmed to its toasty complexity and caramel overtones, although the initial hit had some buttery diacetyl going on. A tasty beer, but nothing I’d write home about. I think I need more to be sure.

(Bottle 50 cl) Clear, orangey brown with a small, rough, off-white head. Unclean, malty, nutty aroma - very British. Light in body but rich in flavours, lots of nuts in particular but also some burned caramel. Somewhat burned malt bitter finish. Appears more like an ESB to me. 010208

Tasted in New Zealand. Rough head. Nice brown color. Roasted taste. Bitter aftertaste.

Reasonably dark, gentle roasted nose, fine, creamy, thin holding head. Reasonable taste & bitterness. Best described as gentle coffee - perhaps a white decaf! Quite a thin palate. A good dark quaffer.

Bottled. Mahogany colour, firm head. Aroma of roasty malt. Dry with soft mouthfeel. Very salty with selnder body. Roasty malt dominates. A straight forward beer with some grassy bitterness and slight notes of metal in the finish.

Tasted 20/06/2005. 500ml bottle from Regional’s, Wellington. Dark mahogany, with ruby hue in the light. Off white to light tan head, which is airy, full of pockets, but holds up well. Mild nose hints at coffee and fruit cake. Quite light bodied, almost watery for it’s 4.5%. Some roasted astringency dominates the flavour slightly and lingers on the palate. I also noticed an almost soapy flavour. Pretty easy drinking despite all this and it certainly grew on me as I got into it. Worth a try alongside Mike’s Mild, perhaps.

Dark brown in colour with very small head. mild flowery aroma. big bitter taste with mld coffee/cocoa flavour.