Golden Best
Timothy Taylor's Brewery

 

Pours a beautiful dark gold, with a tight and retentive white head. Baked apple on the nose, with cinnamon and cloves, then apply malt and a biscuity sweetness on the tongue. Light and juicy acidic in the mouth - finishes very sweet, with more apple - the overriding taste here, as with Landlord but more so.

 

 

From cask at Town Hall Tavern in Leeds. Finally, all the TT ales! The promised land. Absolutely stellar. Not sure I’ve had this style in my entire life but now it doesn’t seem worth trying any other. For the ABV it’s so flavorful. Perfect malt character, so smooth, so crisp. Like fresh sourdough starter. Just wow. Delicious! For the style (that’s how we’re supposed to rate beers, right?) this is nearly perfect (one would imagine).

On cask at Duck & Drake in Leeds.

Pours a gorgeous amber with thick creamy head.

Smell is fruity, floral and a bit crackery. Notes of toast, citrus and wheat.

Taste is floral, fruity and crackery. Soft bitterness and notes of citrus, wheat dough and Saltines.

Mouthfeel is medium, creamy and soft with good carbonation.

Overall, an outstanding mild, poured to perfection.

 

 

 

 

pint at King's Head at Huddersfield train station in Huddersfield, England on April 25, 2018

L: classic amber with super thick offwhite/beige head of foam; some sticking, lacing

S: massive bread-malt explosion, donuts, peach

T: follows the nose with light but tasty bitter bite ... more malt than hops by a long shot

F: fantastic ... the cask is super fresh, plenty of carbonation and a solid heft for so light an ABV

O: only one other pint tops this one during my spring 2018 trip to England (Shakesbeer at The Garrick in Stratford-upon-Avon) ... a true joy to drink, exactly what you envision in a good cask ale, and of all the beers I tried during the trip, this one's No. 1 on my list of favorites to drink every day

Timothy Taylor Golden Best 3.5% @ Sportsmans (Pateley Bridge), draft in a pint glass.

L 4
deep amber. Excellent head.
S 3.75
Subtle and inviting
F4 perfectly smooth
T4 classic mild bitter
O4.25 best example I’ve had of a golden ale.

 

 

Pours golden blonde into a pint glass from draught. Small close offwhite head is 1 finger high, and lingering. Leaves small amount of lacing on the glass.

Aroma isn't very strong, mainly pale malts, some suble citrus, biscuit malt, and some hops. Flavour follows suit with malt presence, golden biscuity notes, cream and butter, hops and mild bitterness.

It's smooth and mildy carbonated producing a creamy mouthfeel, light-medium bodied and easy going.

Great session beer, very drinkable, balanced, doughy and creamy.

Pint from the Hope in Richmond. Really great pale mild, perfect carbonation, slight sweetness with some bitterness. Fresh as a daisy.

 

Cask. Clear golden amber with a frothy head.
Smells of caramel, digestive biscuit and light hedgerow hops.
Tastes sweet up front followed by a balanced hop bitterness.
Cask conditioned feel. Light to medium body.
A reasonably good if rather ordinary bitter. Light mild? Not so sure.

Two hand-pulled pints in one of my locals on 24 Apr 2013.

Light amber body, clean and clear with a good head of white foam.

The nose gives away the semi-sweet biscuit maltiness within, very little hop presence in this brew and the malts are fairly understated too. This is a delicately produced blend of ingredients that just come together very nicely. Don't expect strong flavours, this isn't going to blow away your taste buds: it's a good quality thirst quencher though.

quick pint sampled waiting for a bus and most welcomed

rich golden bodied pint perfect white tight microscopic bubbled head just as you get with good cask offerings.

Great aromas deep malts and fruity tones.

Tastes too deep to fully go into but fleeting hoppy rounds on alty mains.

Perfect mouthfeel utterly gorgeous carbonation.

Best pale mild I've had, I joy to drink.