Teignworthy Marthas Mild

Bottle from Topsham Wine Cellar. Near black in colour, with hints of red, no head and little carbonation. Aroma of dark chocolate, coffee and some charred grain. Flavour had some sweet milk cholcate to start, prunes, roastiness and a big, bitter finish with a touch of warming alcohol. Very enjoyable.

Bottle. Pours a deep dark brown with a thin white head that soon goes. The aroma is roasty, and a hint of some coffee. The taste is sweet with a very slight hint of coffee. The finish is dry with a light bitter taste.

[500ml bottle from Tuckers Maltings, Newton Abbot] Deep brown-black, no head, no carbonation. Silky-smooth mouthfeel. Tastes of chocolate with hints of camp coffee, cough mixture and candy sugar. Quite sweet, but manages to pull it off with a touch of dryness and bitterness in the finish. A good example of a true mild.

Cask gravity at Reading BF 09. Very dark brown, almost black. Liquorice type mild. Like Black Jack sweets. OK, but not really my thing.

Bottle (with the new label, apparently Martha is now an avid fisherlady - Happy Birthday Martha!). Cocoa and astringent alcohol aroma. Opaque black-brown color with nice head. Smokey cocoa/burnt sugar malt flavor with a light astringent finish. Has a bit more of a kick than most milds. Well done.

Bottle BB4 April 2008. The bottle had a picture of a man fishing. I might have dropped a point for a pink label with a stork delivering a baby. Very thin head, just enough big bubbles to cover half the surface. Very dark brown. Aroma of smoke, brown sugar and wood. Tastes like the scents. Woody sweetness upfront morphs into some strong smoke by the finish. Chewy. A Brown with some interesting light complexity.

Bottle picked up at Darts Farm, Topsham, Nr Exeter, Devon 12-11-06 had this evening of 13-11-06. Yet another very good mild along with the Tryst one that I’ve had this week. Stronger than normal for a mild, but poured and looked similar, more intense in the flavour department, with bitter chocolate and coffee in the mix, very good.

Bottled conditioned. Dark ruby hued, thin beige head. Full roasty aroma. Quite smooth on the palate. Well balanced full flavour; roasty, tobacco, prunes, bitterness. A very tasty strong mild.