Millstone Vale Mill

Brewed by Millstone
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Ashton-Under-Lyne, England

Cask Handpump at the Wellington, Sheffield 17/08/2007 Fruit and hop aromas. Clear golden coloured hoppy and fruity orange flavour. Some bitterness in a crisp and creamy dry finish.

Cask, Marble Arch Inn, Manchester. Light gold with white head. Citrus and floral hops, liight bitter finish. Nice, big up Ashton. Not just Ikea and the Witchwood. And dirty women and fighting.

Cask (handpump) @ Marble Arch Inn, 73 Rochdale Rd, Manchester, Greater Manchester England M4 4HY.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, light hoppy, lime, butterscotch light notes. Flavor is light to moderate sweet and light light bitter with a average to short duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20090124]

The Dragon Inn, Worcester. Almost-not- there straw piled with white. Tangy and clean. Superb aromatic soapy mandarin hops right through it. Soft, green and grapefruity. Very nice indeed.

Cask at bow bar ... Very PALE yellow ... light hop nose ... light fruity little soapy little sweet with a hoppy bitter linger.

A Mes rate: Gravicask at Sussex Beer Festival.
Pale gold with a slim white head. Lovely floral and grassy hoppage all round. Maybe a little one dimensional but very tasty. Lacking as much bitterness as I expected in the finish dropping it a peg or two. Decent stuff over all though.

Very pale, very crystal clear yellow ale. The smallest white film covers it. Leafy, herbal, cactus-like and algae reminiscent – a bit overdone in wild herbal character. Green beer in a way. Very subtle underlying bready malts with a bit of sourdough. Dull sour palate, too citrusy and herbal really. Bleh.

Many cask half-pints on 5/4/07
Medium-sized white head atop a light, tangerine/peach body that is bright and bubbly. Lacing is moderate, as is the retention.
Sweet graham crackers and marmalade lay side-by-side in the nose, though not as heavy as that sounds. But the malt is definitely there and not very bready or grainy. Juicy, bright hop aromatics are similar to tart tangerines and lots of leafy, lush hop oils. But through all that, it keeps coming back to the simple, yet ample maltiness that is soft and lightly sweet, balancing the hops well. Fortunately, it dosent seem overly bitter from the nose.
Juicy, almost sweet hop notes give off an array of fruit flavors. Tangerines, nectarines and lemons, mainly, with a strong, rather dry maltiness that shows more graham cracker and very light breadiness. Almost like a bitter in its malt character, with some near-caramel flavors. Hops give a nip of bitterness, but are otherwise mostly just flavorful. Engaging carbonation and spot-on attenuation make for a very drinkable beer. No flaws.