Rother Valley Smild

Brewed by Rother Valley
Style: Mild Ale
Northiam, England

Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear dark brown color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, keller, sewer - drain, wood. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20090804]

Dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma of grass and sulphur. Thin sweetish malt flavour of caramel with a hint of chocolate

Cask at GBBF 2009 ...deep brown ... toffee smokey malt ... caramalised malts ... quite dry ... quite bitter... little woody

Cask in the market porter. Alround rating: Roasty malts, fairly thin, earthy sweetness, hay like hop character. An interesting and different mild due to the earthy character.

Cask@GBBF2009. Black colour, not much head. Aroma is wooden and grassy along with some quite dry smoked wooden notes and liquorice. Flavour quite the same with dark berries and chocolate as well.

Cask@GBBF. Almost opaque brown color, no head. Light roasted, coffee notes, but also some blackberries and odd aromas. Light coffee, herbal hoppy notes.

Cask at the Three Mariners, Hythe. Chocolate brown with a reddish tint and a scummy looking cream head; malty aroma; thin milky texture with subdued roast malt flavours; gently bitter with a peaty finish. Pleasant but slightly disappointing.

Cask conditioned at Merton Winter Beer Fest 09. Dark red brown with cream head. A fairly straight forward mild with a light roasty body, background woody, nutty flavours. Smooth on the palate and maybe a little short, but overall a very decent beer.