3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20Cask in The Kings Head, Clapham. Colour is browny, berry purpley red, thin off white head. Nose is roasted malt, berry fruit. Taste is roasted malt, blackberry fruit, coffee. It all balances nicely together. Finish is malty berry fruit and coffee grounds.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
[cask, the Phoenix, York] Clear deep ruby brownish pour, with purplish gleams throughout. Slightly off-pink head. Aroma is straight up blackberry crumble, as is the taste. Until the end, that is, when some dryness arrives and the beer finishes pretty quickly – but not in a bad way. Good stuff [17052013]
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Hand-pulled half-pint in the lovely ’Old Joint Stock’ Birmingham (West Midlands) on 5th Dec 2012.
Purple sort of colour with a cream head that refused to hang around.
Smell was all about the blackberries in the name, as was the taste. Tart with a bitter finish, interesting without being ’over the top’ and certainly different to any other Mild I’ve had before. It did however remind me of one beer I’ve had.
A kind of watered down Fullers Jack Frost sort of brew: that might sound unkind (the watered down bit), but it is lower in ABV and the flavours are very simular.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Distinct blackberry aroma. Dark solid cream head. Rounded flavour with reasonable fruity and bitterness
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask hand pull, The Salmon, Leicester, 05/05/12. Mahogany with coppery glints and a slim, lacing beige foam. Toffee confectionery aroma; some berries, cinder toffee. Low cal soda berry notes; strawberry-flavoured milk, apple beneath lightly roasted malts. Bitter, toasty afters. A bit flimsy. Not really my thing, but I have just polished off a fish finger cob and bowl of chips which may have impaired my sensory faculties.
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