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Elgoods Black Dog

Elgoods Black Dog

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A Mild Ale brewed by
Elgoods

Wisbech, England

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293.04/5.03.03/5.03.6%44.6 English pint, Shaker P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Pasteurised bottle. Also available on keg as Old Smoothie Mild.
NOTE: Ratings for the cask version should not be posted here; it has a separate listing.
A traditional dark mild at 3.6% abv. It has many CAMRA awards to its name and is a well known brand in the free trade. The beer is well balanced with a full roast flavour. The use of Crystal malt and Roast Barley give a deep underlying characteristic flavour, which is balanced with Fuggles hops as the sole variety.

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 cgarvieuk (2350), Edinburgh, Scotland
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Aug 15, 2007    Updated: May 24, 2008
Bottle at cropredy ... dark brown ... complex soft roast malts ... touch dark fruit ... rich mellow ... roast malts lots of malt fruits ... quite sweet some coffee.... very nice


 DruncanVeasey (1612), Burbage, Leicestershire, England
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Jan 16, 2008  
Rummaging in the BHS selection bucket again. Nose roasted but sweetly chocolatey, with vanilla and oak aplenty. Virtually pitch and heaped with beige froth. Faint bonfire and coffee smokiness, grain and tobacco. Aftertaste sweet, lingering, mealy and milky, but I like it. Characterful, stouty, schwarzbier-like mild of the kind you could drink by the bucketload all evening without falling over.


 shoestring (164), larkhall, Scotland
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Dec 26, 2007  
Nice deep dark murky opaque ruby brown. Beige head which disspiates and laces after minute. Malty bready, caramel biscuit aroma. Sticky palate indeed. Nice mild.


 beervis (214), People’s Republic of Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, England
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/513/20
Dec 25, 2007  
roasted aroma and flavour with some fruitiness and coffee flavours. actually rather nice - I haven’t had many milds but I enjoyed this one.


 mabjork (576), Vasa, Finland
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Aug 13, 2008  
Thanx oh6gdx. Hazy brown in color, bubbly beige head, lacings. The aroma is hoppy and almost juniper berry like. The flavor is sweet and malty with a distinct hoppiness.




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