Voyager
Woodforde's in Woodbastwick, Norfolk, England 🏴
Mild - Dark Special|
Score
6.36
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This black mild has a sweet roasted malt flavour, with hints of chocolate and caramel, resulting in a smooth, creamy, malty character.
Hops: Goldings
Hops: Goldings
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6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
It’s quite basic even for a mild. Soft toasted brown bread, a caramel accents, rather sturdy earthy-ashy bitterness. A little burnt toast. Not bad.
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Crosse Keys (JDW)
on 12 Mar 2026
at 18:22
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Half pint on cask at the red lion jdw.
Medium creamy off white head. Clear amber pour. Light chocolate
Medium creamy off white head. Clear amber pour. Light chocolate
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Red Lion (JDW)
on 12 Mar 2026
at 18:18
5.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5.5
Cask at the willow walk spoons Victoria. A clear reddy copper coloured pour with a lasting loose khaki head. Aroma is semi sweet, mealy apple, nuts, brown bread. Flavour is composed of twigs, bark, light chalk, burnt grass. Thin. Palate is semi sweet, thin, chalky ok cask condition. Lackluster.
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Willow Walk (JDW)
on 12 Mar 2026
at 18:14
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 5
Overall 7
12/3/2026. Cask at wetherspoon’s beer festival. At the Crosse Keys, Gracechurch Street, London.
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Crosse Keys (JDW)
on 12 Mar 2026
at 15:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Dark brown with a creamy white head and minimal chocolate malt aroma. Light bodied but smooth, lightly roasted malt, a touch of fruit and nut chocolate and a dry finish.
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Shrewsbury Hotel
on 11 Mar 2026
at 17:00
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
[Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading.] A dark amber pour with a cream head; malty aroma; creamy body with a malty taste, some caramel and a burnt sugar bitterness; then a dry earthy finish.
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Hope Tap
on 09 Mar 2026
at 11:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Third of a pint in my local Spoons on Sunday 8th March 2026. Dark brown body, soft beige roof, looked good. Decent enough mild with a pleasant malty base, semi sweet before the hops turned it a little less sweet and giving a dry feel in the finish.
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William Withering
on 08 Mar 2026
at 16:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Cask at Wheatsheaf, Stoke. Pours a (very) dark reddish-brown with a small foamy cream head and good lacing. The aroma is mainly malts, but with some hints of caramel too. In the mouth it is sweet and smooth with a creamy texture, but also a little underlying bitterness. Flavour is fruity malts plus traces of chocolate and cola. This decent enough but a little one dimensional.
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Wheatsheaf (JDW)
on 07 Mar 2026
at 12:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6
Cask handpull at Metropolitan Bar JDW London. Dark brown beer lasting beige head. Some dark malt flavour. Some cocoa. Some chocolate. Some brown malt. Light bitterness on the finish. Decent dark mild.
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Metropolitan Bar
on 07 Mar 2026
at 11:41
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Wetherspoon Spring Beer Festival 2026, Beer#5. Clear mahogany-red coloured brew. Nice and mild as any regular mild should be, with an underlying sweetness to its darker malty character. Good associated aroma for the style too.
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Regal Moon (JDW)
on 05 Mar 2026
at 18:43