Beer Valley Gone Fishin’ English Style Mild

Brewed by Beer Valley Brewing Company
Style: Mild Ale
Ontario, Oregon USA

22. Pours a crystal clear dark amber with a towering, pocked, fluffy off-white head. Decent eggy lacing on the way down. Nice toasty, pecan-like nose. Creamy medium body with lively carb, but not too much of it, really. Nutty, toasty mid-palate that seems to offer mostly the flavor of dry leaves. Earthy finish. Pleasant notes that are prominent on the american ale spectrum--the toast, the earth, the leaves. But it’s all so held back, so thwarted. Good flavor for 4%, but that’s world’s tallest midget territory. It’s not watery, exactly, but everything seems to be watered down. Nothing wrong with it, but hard to get excited about.

Bomber from Bottleworks.

I guess I need to work on my mild appreciation skills. This is one is pretty mild indeed, rather like tea without the flavor or maybe saltines without the salt. Gentle toasted white-bread taste, drinkable enough, hard to see quite when I’d want to session this or how it would hold a candle to Avril.

Nice mild amber flavor, good coloring with a decent finish this was a esy to drink beer and I would have another on a good hot day. Looks like some good beers out of Eastern Oregon.

Brassy-bodied highly carbonated brew with overly thick, off-white top. Mild bitter hop and mild, grainy malt aroma with nuances of biscuit and nut. Clean, lgithly grainy body. Mild, watery tannic bitter finish. Easy drinking and mildly flavorful. Drinkable and unoffensive. Good for the style, but otherwise, just okay.

22oz from Bottleworks. Pours a chill hazed toffee brown with a khaki white head. Biscuity bread, toffee, roasty nuts, a bit of sweet coffee. Good mouth feel with creamy carbonation. Toasty malty bread flavor up front and into the middle with grassy earthiness on the end. Very drinkable beer and nice flavors for a 4%.

Bottle: Hazy amber, nice thick off-white head. Nose of toasty pale malt, light caramel malts and earthy light hops. The flavor is toasty caramel and light hops. Decent body and a creamy mouthfeel. Biscuity body and finishes with a nice earthy malty character. Yum. Only 4%? Sell this to utah!

courtesy of ibrew2or3 pours cloudy amber Aroma is fruity, malty, caramel and grains. Flavor, caramel malts and roast, some prune; fruits. Light and easy to drink.

22 ounce bottle from the Boise Co-op. Pours a clear mahogany color with a small white head. A light toasted, nutty nose, some caramel and light fruit. The flavor is dry, toasted, some nutty flavors and light fruit. A nice zesty carbonation. Musty and dry. Quite nice.