Banks’s Dark Mild

Brewed by Banks’s (Marstons plc)
Style: Mild Ale
Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England

[Keg at the Steamer Inn, Shanklin] Black with a thick, creamy nitrohead. Very faint carbonation. Roasted malt and coca-cola flavour with a little granite in the finish, but all in all a little weak and watery.

Not cask, The Lime Kilns. Almost stouty dark ruby with a nitrogenous beige collar. Little chance of any aroma escaping that. Maybe a distant puff of cocoa. Mushy dunked milk chocolate digestive flavour with tiny hints of dried fruit and roast. Actually not bad if you want to sink a few pints of something tasting of slightly more than nothing, and still make perfect sense afterwards.