Mills Brewing Dinkum

Dinkum

 

Mills Brewing in Ham, Gloucestershire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Collab with: Nevel
  Sour / Wild Beer Regular
Score
7.67
ABV: 5.5% IBU: - Ticks: 12
Dinkum was brewed using an amalgamation of both ours and Nevel's approaches to making wild fermented beers. In this vein, we first produced a rich copper wort utilising floor malted, toasted and crystal malts from Warminster Maltings. To the boiling wort we added a mix of new growth blackberry leaves, picked from the lanes around the brewery, and Mystic hops, a new British variety displaying blackcurrant and citrus flavours. The finished wort was fermented in two red Bordeaux barrels with a mix of both Mills and Nevel's yeast cultures.

After 12 months the resulting beer was blended with two additional barrels of Bordeaux barrel-fermented 20-month-old amber beer, made with dark Munich malts
 

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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Clear copper beer with a huge cream-coloured head, fed by fine carbonation. Sharpish nose, with a sugar-like aroma, reminding me of the old style filtered 'gueuze', even sweetened, and aromas of thyme, laurel, rosemary. Again the above: as a commercial gueuze enriched with green herbs. Mellow, and in the taste the sweetening is less obvious. Rosemary- and other herbflowers. Light body, partly due to acidthinning, soft carbonation. Not exactly a great sour.

Tried from Bottle at Café Pardaf on 16 Mar 2025 at 07:51


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle split at the Watford Tasting, 11/03/22, thanks to the Wingmane. Hazed dark orange to amber with a good sized lasting egg shell white covering. Nose is tarte fruit esters, lemon curd, damp straw, green berry must, funk. Taste comprises lemon tinged straw, damp grass, barnyard tones, funk, stoned fruit esters, hay bale. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light acidic edge. Solid well balanced sour.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jun 2022 at 09:38


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Panda thanks to Fergus: Poured an orange golden with a white ring head. Aroma is woodsy, fruity, funky, straw, berries, citrus. Taste is tart fruits, berries, citrus, woodsy, some malts, funky mainly.

Tried on 29 May 2022 at 22:53


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle shared in Watford - thanks to Dave. Pours unclear red-gold with a big, billowing off-white foam head. Lightly sweet, some old leathery berries, wood, earth, grass. Light to medium bodied with lively, massaging carbonation. Lightly drying finish, more leathery berries, orange peel. Tasty gear.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Mar 2022 at 15:19


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared at the watford tasting 11/03/2022. Thanks to Wingman for this one. A hazed amber orange coloured pour with a lasting beige cap. Aroma is autumnal leaves, grass, brown leaves, hint of vanilla, waxy, mellow funk, vinous funk. Flavour is composed of airy, prickly, tart lemon juice, autumnal leaves chalky. Palate is dry airy carbonation, harsh sour, interesting, little bitty.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Mar 2022 at 15:13


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Tried on 11 Mar 2022 at 15:05


7

Hapukas, herbaalne, puuviljane, nats happeline, veits õunane, kuiv. Hea.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2022 at 19:09


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle, 750 ml shared with Max, Miro B and kajser27. Dark orange, white head. Funky, juicy, citric, barnyard, barrel. Moderate carbonation. Medium bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Jun 2021 at 18:04


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Sample from Erik. Copper with small, disappearing head. Green grapes, caramel, oak, preserved lemon. Red fruits. Quite nice.

Tried on 14 Apr 2021 at 19:14


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle @ Cloudwater extravaganza night at Oluf B Gade. Thanks to SirAlex. Pours unclear amber copper with a small bubbly white head. Woody with a touch of red and green apples and red fruit. Crisp, dry and easy drinkable. Vinous. Tasty

Tried from Bottle on 19 Mar 2021 at 07:27