Mild / Original (Cask)
(Batch of Mild / Original)
Banks's in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England 🏴
Mild Regular|
Score
6.08
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Formerly known as Banks's Original until 2010.
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.
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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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From cask. Pours clear and golden deep amber with a small, off-white and creamy head. Aroma is mild fruity and toasted malty. Bitter, malty and vague caramelish. Ends dry, bitter and mild fruity.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Aug 2011
at 07:01
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask at GBBF 2011, 3rd day. Nose is chocolate, caramel, light fruitiness. Thin, light, drinkable, with sour tang. Chocolate and caramel flavor. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2011
at 03:50
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask. Reddish amber colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet malts, some toasted notes as well as dark fruits, wood and rather toffeeish. Flavour is quite much the same, but also has some raisins and mild riped fruits in it.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jul 2011
at 01:42
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
On tap at The Wych Elm in Burntwood, pours bronze. Aroma and flavour of light toasted malt and bitter hops. Smooth, but boring.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Mar 2011
at 12:06
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Cask handpull at The Pheasant Ashford. Its crazy that I have not rated this. Deep reddish amber clear with thick cream head from the sparkler. Some sulphur and soft malts on the aroma. Some hard toffee in the mouth. Soft on the swallow with a bit more toffee an yeast on the very lasting finish. It hangs around in your mouth longer than you would expect. But its a light mild not a bitter
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Dec 2010
at 05:56
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Bridge, Kingswinford. Pours dark amber with a small head. Aroma is some dried fruits and biscuity malt. Some bread to start and a bready, malt finish. As a point, this should be for any beer listed as Banks’s Mild, as they are the same beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Sep 2010
at 09:09
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Handpump Worcester City FC every season since 1988. Like the Banks bitter, this is another regular that I’ve had that not got around to rating. Amber coloured, easy drinking beer bit nutty and malty and creamy tasting. Another beer that is worshipped around the Worcester and above into it’s heartland its hard to dislike what is almost always a consistenly average, perfectly acceptable, decent enough beer, if there is one thing that I can say about Banks that is very positive I can barely recall having to take a pint back.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Aug 2006
at 12:36
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@Cayo Arms, Cardiff. Clear dark ruby red, small creamy off-white head. Sweetish nutty nose. Nutty, dry malty flavor. Good malt base, but that’s about it. Being cask version propably helps a bit.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jul 2006
at 14:59
3.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Nut brown. Eggfart aroma that gets milder over time. Roasty and light bodied with industrial flavour of apple and metal. Thin mouthfeel. Insipid.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Feb 2005
at 12:21
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask Conditioned
Amber color. Delicate: the malty aroma and the flowery taste; very light, absolutely drinkable.
Amber color. Delicate: the malty aroma and the flowery taste; very light, absolutely drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Feb 2004
at 05:28