3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Unretired, Reading 2007. Transparent ruby half with a thinnish head. Caramel and chocolate malty smoothness with some firm roastiness emerging in the finish. Full-bodied, full-flavoured Mild.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, at GBBF 2005. Bronze, low white head and moderate condition. Gentle, sweet malt and caramel aromas, low caramel and slight roasted barley notes in the mouth and a low delicate hoppiness in the finish.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
[Cask at GBBF 2005] An orange-brown beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of caramel as well as light notes of roasted malt and sulphur. The flavor is sweet combined with a slight sourness - the low ABV definately helps in not making it sweeter - and with primary notes of caramel, leading to a dry end.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned, GBBF 2005:
Sweet, malty, butter aroma. Brown appearnce with a red touch. Flavour is malty and palate is quite bitter for a Mild ale.
2.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Soft and doughy malt aroma with some light roastiness apparent. Clear copper with low off white head that recedes rapidly to ring. Soft, doughy malt flavour with light finishing bitterness. Light body with moderate carbonation. Cask at GBBF 2005.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Not very dark or very full. Reasonably malty and very clean. Decent stuff. Won’t win any prizes for complexity or depth of flavour but ideal for a session. Cask (gravity dispense), London Drinker Beer Festival, March 2005.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
cask at reading beer festival. brown ruby colour almost banana fruit flavour, malty with a dry banana finish
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Conditioned, at the Wenlock Arms, London.
Brown, not so dark. Crisp hoppy aroma and flavour. A real easy drink with lasting hop flavour and good bitter length on the palate.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bright polypin taken from cask at the Loddon Brewery. Fairly flavourful mild malty and fairly sweet. Perhaps ever so slightly thin but for the ABV I guess it has reasonable body. Nice.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draught at the Bartons Arms, Birmingham. I didn’t think this was too bad, but then again I think I may be addicted to Milds! A lighter brown example, with a small, scummy head. Thin mouthfeel, dryish taste, with some apple and a little caramel on the very finish. Pleasant metally aftertaste. Not bad.
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