Mills Brewing Foxbic

Foxbic

 

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

Collab with: Oliver's Cider
  Sour / Wild Beer Series Out of Production
Score
7.67
ABV: 4.7% IBU: - Ticks: 19
Collaboration with Oliver's Cider and Perry. Foxbic was made using the turbid mash method in the style of traditional Lambic producers. The wort was fermented with Foxwhelp apple juice by cider lees in old oak barrels for eight months. The resulting blend was then bottle conditioned and aged for a further eight months prior to release, making this a true blend of traditional brewing and cider making techniques.
 

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Tried from Draft on 04 Aug 2025 at 18:31


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

Bottle shared at Chris and Ruth Pre-GBBF 2017 tasting - London. Cheers! Pours cloudy yellow-gold with a creamy, white head. The nose holds apple, lemon, light musty notes. Lightly sweet, dry, with some grass, hay, apple skins. Light to medium bodied with massaging carbonation. Modestly drying in the finish, musty, more apple skins, mellow lemony tang. Very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2021 at 17:34


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

My first bottle of Mills, sampled back in July 2017. Bottle sourced online from the sadly now defunct Beer Revolution in Hay-on-Wye. Pours lightly hazed gold with a white head. Aroma: cider apples, funk, floral. Taste: light to moderate acidity, dry, light sharp, spritzy cider apples, lemon, funk. Medium bodied with ample carbonation. Different but lovely

Tried from Bottle on 17 Nov 2020 at 23:32


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle, 750 ml, courtesy of Max. Hazy golden with white head. Shared at Arrogant tasting. Funky, apples, tart, citrus, smooth. Medium bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Aug 2018 at 08:04


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

Bottle, by way of a UK trade. Cheers Tom. Hazed, pale gold. Thin, dense, lasting, white head. Nose has cider apple lolly. Toffee apple. Light, cheesy funk. Sweet, fat lemon. Wet wood. It’s got that walk in the woods after a downpour thing going on. Then there’s a touch of vanilla. Wow. Taste is well balanced, sweet and dry, with a funky, lemony, tart apple sourness. Light and bright mouthfeel. Massaging carbonation. Dry and light tart finish. Like 3F Oude Geuze with a cider lolly mashed up in it.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Jul 2018 at 20:28


8

Tried on 05 Jun 2018 at 18:49


8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle 750ml. @ [ chriso & Boudicca's pre- GBBF Shindig 2017 ] - Chris and Ruth's House, London. [ As Mills / Olivers Cider Foxbic ].Murky matt medium yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, good - fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is barnyard, leather, tart, apple, citrus, minerals, wood. Flavor is moderate sweet and acidic with a long duration, tart, sour, citrus, apple, funky, wood. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20170805] 8-2-9-4-17

Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2018 at 14:58


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

75cl bottle from Tom Oliver. Pours a generally clear gold with the lightest mist, minimal remaining head. Aroma has some pleasantly light wild floral funk. Taste presents a fruity floral wild yeast character, not overly sour or sharp, but enough wild elements to keep it bristlingly tart. Some apple juice echoes. Very good.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Mar 2018 at 18:40


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle at appellation... Hazy amber... Thin white lacing.. Soft funk barnyard apple fruit nose.. Soft sharp funk.. Tart fruits.. Dry apple tanin.. Light acetic

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2018 at 09:39


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

What does the foxbic say? Bottle at appellation. Pours deep peach, nose is funk, apple, oak, floral, taste is toffee, zesty apple, vinegar, funk.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jan 2018 at 03:05