Mild / Original (Cask)
(Batch of Mild / Original)
Banks's in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England 🏴
Mild Regular|
Score
6.08
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The original Banks's brew. This is the beer that made Banks's famous and is still the world's best selling mild - it's beautifully balanced, smooth and very moreish.
A light chestnut coloured beer, exhibiting a glorious balance. Malty with a perceptible burnt note, it's full bodied with a hint of bitterness counterbalancing the rich, biscuity flavour from the best barley.
The perfect accompaniment to a spicy Indian dish or strong flavoured meats and game.
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Mild / Original (Cask) from Banks's 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Tasted as Banks’s Original in 2006. Classic pale mild, although apparently classified as a bitter here, with yellowish white, refined foam and copper colour; aroma honeyish, hazelnuts, caramel and some diacetyl (buttermilk); soft and subtle sweetish, honeyish taste, creamy palate, finishing mildly bitter as expected.
stravale (3279) reviewed Mild / Original (Cask) from Banks's 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ Cob and Pen, Rhyl [230314]
Dark caramel, thin beige head, good lacing
Aroma of soft caramel, light cereal malts
Taste of caramel, soft sweet toffee, slight dab of twiggy hop, touch of dark fruits, not bad for the abv
Palate - Light body, bit oily, good mouthfeel for abv. Finish of soft sweet caramel malts, soft toffee
Overall - Better than expected - but not really a mild, more a malty low abv bitter
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Mild / Original (Cask) from Banks's 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at the Stag and Hounds, Binfield, sitting in the garden, on the first good afternoon of the summer. Copper with a dense cream head; rich malty aroma; soft, grainy, body, sweet malt taste, and gently bitter; the finish is bisuity with some caramel. A satisfying mild - but that may be due to the sunshine.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Mild / Original (Cask) from Banks's 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Gravity cask at the Bree Louise - London. Pours. Lear gold with a slight, white foam head. Nose has creamy malts, leaves, faint caramel. Light sweet flavor, some toasty sugars, leafy bitterness, vague fruits. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Modest sweetness to finish, some faint citrus, impressions of dry caramel, leaves, bread. Simple but not offensive.
Saintmatty (11304) reviewed Mild / Original (Cask) from Banks's 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask (The Star JDW, Gosport) - Copper coloured. Dried fruit, honey and caramel in the aroma. Fruity and slightly metallic taste with spicy malt, raisins and a hint of fruitcake.
Cunningham (15598) reviewed Mild / Original (Cask) from Banks's 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Appearance: Dark brown color with a fine white head. Ok lacing.
Aroma: Toffee and some roasted malt.
Palate: Medium body. Moderate sweet and a mild bitterness. Soft carbonation.
Taste: Balanced and nice toffee and roasted malty.
Overall impression: Decent and fine mild(bitter).
Personal stats: On tap at The White Swan in Birmingham, England.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Mild / Original (Cask) from Banks's 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
August 2006: This used to be a Black Country Classic (it was known as Banks’s Mild, in those days). I have drank it many times, tinned, bottled, Keg and Cask, this review is for Cask. Banks’s pubs often do not have hand pulls, you must look at the base of the identical dispensing font, which are lit up like Lager/keg fonts, if it says the beer is ’Brewery Conditioned’ it is Keg, if it says ’Cask Conditioned’ it is Cask. The beer is drawn up by electric in both cases. It looks good, not as dark as some milds, but not light either, a Tawny Owl Brown with an off white head. Poured correctly, the head will stay until the bottom of the glass. Banks’s have a policy of using oversized glasses, so you always get a full pint of beer! No great aroma, but you can tell it is a beer in your hand and a slight hint of burnt caramel can sometimes be detected. The taste is of burnt malt and an aftertaste of hops. The beer is not over full, or heavy in mouthfeel, a thirst quenching session beer more than a sitting around discussing the flavour type beer. Banks’s have a huge estate of pubs throughout the Midlands and the quality of this beer could well vary. Give it a try, in two different bars if you can. My scores are a combination of my last 6 pints of it, from 3 different inns.
Anders37 (30296) reviewed Mild / Original (Cask) from Banks's 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
cask @ GBBF 2011. Pours a clear dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a slightly roasted malty caramel aroma with weak hoppy hints. Fruity malty caramel toffee flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel finish with some weak hoppy hints.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Mild / Original (Cask) from Banks's 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear dark amber colour with a average to large, creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, dusty grain, toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily and smooth, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110804]
Dedollewaitor (22132) reviewed Mild / Original (Cask) from Banks's 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours clear amber with a creamy white head and lacings. A bit watery. Grain, bread and caramel.