Welland Valley Mild
Great Oakley Brewery in Tiffield, Northamptonshire, England 🏴
Mild - Dark Regular|
Score
7.12
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Fergus (31329) reviewed Welland Valley Mild from Great Oakley Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask gravity at GBBF 2015 day 2. Mahogany brown caramel coloured with a halo of light cream head. Flavour is composed of nutty toasted grains, semi sweet, dried fruits, slight grainstore. Flavour is composed of nutty, semi sweet, light liquorice, choc. Dried fruit. Palate is eatery. Light semi sweet sugars.
Olut (21769) reviewed Welland Valley Mild from Great Oakley Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Keighley Beer Festival 2014. Dark with a reddish-brown glow and a thin head. Despite its low strength it feels full-bodied with plenty of roasted malt in both aroma and taste and a subdued but lingering aftertaste.
Foffern (3540) ticked Welland Valley Mild from Great Oakley Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at the Live and Let Live, Cambridge. Tar brown in colour with a loose beige head and a striking cherry red colour when held to the light; aroma of roasted malt with smoke and tar mingling; dry in the mouth with a solid chocolate malt body and a light peppery bitterness; then a touch of caramel to finish. Excellent - if only all milds were as good as this.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Handpulled cask at the Pembury Tavern on 15th July 2009, during beer festival. Deep brown-black with a small cream-coloured head. For such a low strength this mild was bursting with flavour. A sharp scent of roasted malts are in the forefront with strong coffee and chocolate notes abounding. A little sophisticated smoke too. First pint at the festival, and absolutely delicious.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
[Gravity cask at Milton Keynes beerfest] Vicious foretaste of plums and coffee mellows into the usual dry, toasty mild, but the sour overtones of the plum keep hanging around. Interesting, and good depth of flavour, but ultimately it didn’t work very well for me.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Welland Valley Mild from Great Oakley Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.Clear medium red brown color with a average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, burnt, coffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter (malt burnt bitter) with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (020508)
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Welland Valley Mild from Great Oakley Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask gravity at Nottingham BF 2007. Very dark brown with thin beige head. Decent bitter choc, roasted malts. Nice creamy chocolate, really good mild, choccy grainyness is superb, lots of flavour.
Fin (18365) reviewed Welland Valley Mild from Great Oakley Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask conditioned at the Alexandra Arms, Kettering, Northants’, 25-05-07. Poured black with very little head. This was stunning, the aroma was nice and roasty with maybe a touch of woodiness and these key characteristics carried on through into the taste which finished with a nice smoothness, it was simplicity itself but wonderful for it. This beer should really be put up as a benchmark for how a good English Mild should be. There are some great Milds around with Potbelly Beijing Black being one of most memorable of recent years, but it is rare that I’ve stumbled across a new mild at the more usual low abv that has had such an impact on me, simply superb. [i] [b] Updated again at Merton Winter Beer Fesatival Feb’ 08 [/i] [/b] This little mild still tastes great, and as Mild’s go it sets quite a high benchmark, but it isn’t quite the force that it was last time out so I’m going to have to knock it don a point or two.