North Country Breakfast Blend Mild

Brewed by North Country Brewing Company
Style: Mild Ale
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania USA

On tap at the brewpub. Nice roasty smoky nose with caramel and brown sugar. Light bitter hops character. Dark brown clear with no head. Medium body with high carbonation. Starts dry and roasty with bit of sweet caramel. Good bitter finish and after. Smooth and light nutty after and light smoky character.

Draft sample at brewpub. Pours brown with orange hues, white rimming head. Nose is surprisingly coffee and roasted malt. Taste is coffee, malt, and a mild bitter. Almost a porter with too much caramel taste to it. Bitterness is solid enough, but a bit, well, mild for a mild. Tasty concoction.

On tap at the brewery. Pours a reddish copper brown with a small off-white fizzy head that’s gone after a few seconds. Aroma has some grainyness and coffee. Flavor has a little bit of carbonic bitter. The coffee is very noticeable. A light taste and body make it a pretty solid mild. This might be pretty good on some nitro.

Grapes, and Some faint buttery notes but not alot., carbonation a little too high, but a nice clean finish. Mis identified on sampler but what a great bar

Date: 07/23/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

clear dark brown, headless, light malt aroma, rich nutty chocolate flavor, mostly dry with only a hint of sweetness, nice long bitter finish,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Draught. I can see why this is called a mild, but the coffee like aromas and such took me by surprise. Arrives a deep brown color (like walnut) that has a thin appearance to it. Aromas are of coffee and topsoil. Really light ABV (3.8% if I recall), and flavor is similarly mild, in spite of the dark, stouty flavors. I don’t know that I’d sell the house for another, but it is interesting.

Typical beer aroma with just a hint of coffee. Rootbeer color with a creamy off white head. The taste of this is very interesting and pleasing. Coffee flavors abound, but it is not a big bitter black coffee falvor. The best of the coffee without the oppressiveness. It comes across like a very mild sweet stout but it does not leave a watered down impression. Great mild flavor, certainly not overpowering with it’s coffee flavors. Good creamy carbonation. Well mannerred and friendly, of course there is no alky taste at all. Very mild coffee bitterness builds a little on the back of the throat during the finish. Very nice! I was happy to try this mild alky ’beer’