7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at the Birmingham Beer Festival 2012. Well, this is perhaps the most interesting and the strongest mild I've ever had! It poured dark brown with a reddish hue and no head at all. It was completely lifeless. The aroma was rather weak but the richness of the flavour made up for that! It was big and fruity with a nice balanced bitterness that went straight to my heart and at 6% my head wasn't far behind! Worth tracking down!
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Oct 2012
at 14:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Two hand pulled pints in the brewery tap (The Beacon Hotel) on 24th March 2012. Amber to golden body: weak, thin white head that is almost just a collar as soon as it’s poured. Wish it looked better. The nose is hop dominated but not overly strong or deep, a mildly malty ester or two can also be detected as the beer warms. Good blend of flavours in the mouth: hops, malts and then hops again as the mouth dries. Good body strenght and depth of flavours from the first sip to the last.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Jul 2012
at 03:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Beacon Hotel, Sedgley. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is lemon and straw hop. Taste has straw, lemon biscuit. Low bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 May 2012
at 12:00
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Aug 2006 with updates:I am very lucky because I have only drank this beer at the Beacon Hotel (The brewery) or at CAMRA beer fests. It obviously doesn’t travel to well, according to some reports on here, which is a great shame, because kept well and drank out of a pint pot it is wonderful. Dark Ruby Brown in colour, as its name suggests, no head should be fully formed, just a whisper or two of white froth which soon disappears as you take great gulps of the beer. The aroma is so complexed, it fills your brain with an overload of pulses, mine being unable to unscramble them to discribe each beery one. The taste is heavy, and again complexed and diverse in flavours, all the tastes linger, fruits, malts, hops all blended into a huge explosion of what a great British Strong Mild should be like. Throw your bottles away and try and visit the Brewery in Sedgley. Update Feb 2009. Had three pints last Thursday in ’Ye Olde Robin Hood’ Ironbridge, Shropshire. Still a wonderful beer in cask form, please don’t let the bottle sour your view of a true classic. March 2012 update: visited the brewery again, still a fantastic pint!
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2012
at 06:25
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Cask at Walsall Beer festival. Clear amber pour with a small white head. Sweet malty fruity aroma. Flavor is sticky sweet with malt and alcohol.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2012
at 12:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Walsall beer festival 2012. Almost no head. Clear amber pour. Quite decent
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Apr 2012
at 15:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Wandsworth Beer Festival, March 2012. It pours deep ruby, with a thin beige head. The nose is vinous, red berry, cherry, tartness, chocolate, sweet jam and caramel. The taste is dark fruit - blackcurrant, cherry, bramble, jam, vinous notes, chocolate, caramel, roasted malt and leather, with a some dryness in the finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Good, but perhaps a bit too sweet.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Mar 2012
at 05:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW, London. Pours Clear, red-brown with a soft, foamy head. Lots of dark, ripe fruits in the nose. Medium to big sweet flavor with grapes, raisins (ha, both grapes AND raisins!), booze, faint cocoa, wood. Medium to full in body with soft carbonation. Lightly warming finish with some alcohol notes, lots of dark fruits, prunes, raisins, faint vodka, toast. Ummm. Interesting stuff here.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Mar 2012
at 14:09
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Beacon Hotel, Sedgley. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is straw malt and light citrus hop. Taste has biscuit, straw and light citrus. Bitter, straw finish. Lovely.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Mar 2012
at 13:27
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Gravity cask at the Wandsworth Halloween Festival 2011. Pours rich, caramel-red with a small, white head. Rich fruit aroma, subtle booze, caramel. Very rich, sweet flavor, toasted sugar, ripe fruits, slight leafy bitters. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warm finish, sticky sugar, booze, apples and other fruits. Not bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Oct 2011
at 11:37