Whitbread Best Mild

Brewed by Samlesbury (InBev UK)
Style: Mild Ale
Preston, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

440ml can. Brown with a creamy persistent head. Little aroma - bit of malt & caramel. Ditto flavour. Sweet and smooth but very uninteresting.

Can. Copper colour with beige head. Aroma is fruit, berries. Flavour is pleasent, fruit, caramel, malt. Ordinary beer.

Can. Clear, copper body, and a beige head. Malty-sweet aroma, with caramel, but it is quite weak. The same goes for the flavor, but it is a bit more evident. Considering the low ABV, it is a nice one, but I would prefer it beefed up a bit, and a fuller body. (070914)

UPDATED: JUL 11, 2007 (draught keg in Baiborne Lees) not retired apparently. Dark brown with hints of red, small off white head. Malt aroma. Mild biscuit malt flavor. Actually not a bad session beer - I think it’s underrated here.

Unretired, 440ml can(s), Morrisons. Pours deep ruby with a creamy yellowish head that sticks around. Biscuity malt prevails with notes of chocolate and malted milk. The subtlest hint of roast and just enough sourish woodiness to keep you lifting the glass. Creamy palate. Shames bottled beers twice its strength. More 2.6% beers please that don’t compromise on body or flavour. Tasty Mild.

440 ml can - "brewed and distributed by InBev UK Ltd, Luton" Dark brown with almost no head; a spicy malt aroma; sweet, thin and malty in the mouth; almost no body; slightly bitter aftertaste. Not unpleasant.

Canned(49p to clear Morrisons) Dark with a big bubbled off-white head. Slight aroma of roast malt, little else. Smooth and fairly malty, sweetish/grainy finish. Ok but nothing great..prefer draught mild, but those are thin on the ground around here.

(draft) No head at all, but somehow managed to have very good lacing. A hint of caramel in the flavor. A slightly lagerish finish but not too fizzy. Not bad at all.