Pretty Things Once Upon A Time, February 27th, 1832, Mild

Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project
Brewed at Just Beer (fka Buzzards Bay Brewing)
Style: English Strong Ale
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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22oz bottle. Poured a medium amber color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of caramel, fruity, bananas, and some earthiness. Tastes of caramel, citrus, the same fruitiness, and brown sugary sweetness. Alcohol burn in the finish.

Hazy orange pour, creamy white head. Bready malts, light hops, crackers, caramel, toffee. Flavor is smooth, very light malt and hops. Nothing offensive at all.

Bottle pour at the Pony Bar. Awesome beer. Beautifully hopped with equal sweet maltiness to match. Pours an amber-yellow with a subtle cream head. Earthy hop aroma. Flavor is sweet and diverse, with mild fruit notes and light bitterness. Nicely carbonated, crisp but smooth, this beer was a pleasure.

Bottle from Craft. Pours chill hazy copper with off-white head. Nose is caramel malt, fusel spirits, hops, pepper. Tastes rich, malty, spirity, with spare hops and a rich flavor. This one is anything but mild. and if they were drinking this stuff back in 1832, then they were awesome. Gets hotter as it warms, and lightweights need go back to Bud Chelada.

Courtesy of bvc. Pours clear copper with thin white head. The aroma is fruity esters, phenol chemicals and then nose searing heat. The taste is very sweet to start with malts and some dark fruity esters. It then gets a punctuated from time to time by a chemical booziness. A mild ale, really?

Bottle, thanks to thirdeye11, orange amber pour with white foam, aroma is sweet caramel with a sickly sweet, caramel malty flavor, some heat from the alcohol

Bottle at the Shenandoah Throwdown. Pours a mostly clear brownish orange with a medium sized white head. Caramel and a light hop presence, very subtle and refined. Sweet caramel and plums, soft fruit. The alcohol is mostly hidden on here, though it does peek through a couple of times. Sweet lightly bitter finish. Imperial mild? Not sure about that, but whatever it was, sure was tasty.

Tons of phenols in the nose, some darker fruit notes - raisins. Almost smells like a malt liquor. Sweet and adjuncty with alcohol. Pours darker golden, no head or lace. Lots of sweetness upfront - sugars, appley plum notes. Toast and even a hint of leather? Tons of adjuncty sweetness wow. So to make a mild 10percen you add a shit ton of fermentable sugars. Mouth burning alcohol. Light but sweet, thin bit hot. Wow, an odd beer.

22.thanks bvc! pours clear light amber with a loose gray head. corn, solvent, and band aids on the nose. creamy medium body, mild fizz. caramel, corn, and band aids on the mid palate.

Bottle shared with jcwattsrugger. Pours semi-hazy reddish peach with off white head. Nose and taste of honey, caramel malt, pineapple and dried fruits. Almost an "imperial" mild given the ABV. Quite a good beer. Reminded me of a "light" barleywine.