Happy Holidays 2014 - Mild
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Dark Mild Ale
- ABV:
- 4.1%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 5.75%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 18, 2015
- Added:
- Dec 09, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.1/5 rDev -10.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.1/5 rDev -10.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
I picked up a growler of this brew prior to a Christmas Eve feast. I'm not sure if I got a bad batch, but what I got was underwhelming and disappointing. I am a huge fan of Alley Kat beer, so the lack of carbonation, flavor, and character really surprised me. I hope that I just had a bad keg, because this beer is far below the standard I have come to expect from Alley Kat.
Dec 26, 2014
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.67/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml, green wax sealed bottle, the 2014 edition of the brew that Alley Kat makes for its friends and family, i.e. their best customers. I'm wondering if this is a retooling of the Fireside Mild from a few years back.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium red brick amber hue, with two pudgy fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves a few instances of hanging invading alien warship lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of biscuity, bready pale and caramel malt, dry ash, muddled dark fruit, a touch of tanned leather, and tame earthy, leafy, and slightly weedy hops. The taste is more bready caramel malt, a lesser bit of toasted breakfast cereals, a faint generic orchard fruitiness, and plain earthy, mildly floral hop bitters.
The carbonation is quite light and agreeable in its nimble frothiness, the body on the far lee side of medium weight, and generally smooth, a very slight airy creaminess arising as it warms. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity, grainy, and mildly toasted maltiness pretty much lounging around at will.
Well, this definitely nails the 'mild' in the style definition, that's for sure. It's flavourful, that's not to be denied, but nothing really possesses the temerity to stand or stick out, which is the point, I gather. Easy to drink, that much is certain, and it sort of seems to be the polar opposite of a winter warmer - the poundability factor is sky-high.
Dec 09, 2014This beer pours a clear, bright medium red brick amber hue, with two pudgy fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves a few instances of hanging invading alien warship lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of biscuity, bready pale and caramel malt, dry ash, muddled dark fruit, a touch of tanned leather, and tame earthy, leafy, and slightly weedy hops. The taste is more bready caramel malt, a lesser bit of toasted breakfast cereals, a faint generic orchard fruitiness, and plain earthy, mildly floral hop bitters.
The carbonation is quite light and agreeable in its nimble frothiness, the body on the far lee side of medium weight, and generally smooth, a very slight airy creaminess arising as it warms. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity, grainy, and mildly toasted maltiness pretty much lounging around at will.
Well, this definitely nails the 'mild' in the style definition, that's for sure. It's flavourful, that's not to be denied, but nothing really possesses the temerity to stand or stick out, which is the point, I gather. Easy to drink, that much is certain, and it sort of seems to be the polar opposite of a winter warmer - the poundability factor is sky-high.
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