Leeds Beer Festival 2007 Day Two
Day two of the Leeds Beer Festival saw a (gasp!) woman join us and Mike stuck to the mild!
Day two of the Leeds Beer Festival saw me following the “Mild Trail”. This is simply a concept whereby you receive a stamp on your programme for every half of mild that you try. The sixth half is then free. I don’t drink much mild, so I thought that this would be an excellent way to get some tasting in.
I have no experience in writing reviews or tasting notes of beers and certainly no experience of describing milds, so you’ll have to excuse my amateurish notes below that I scribbled while at the festival.
- 1. Black Country Mild, Holden’s, Woodsetton, Staffordshire
- Good body, dark, easy to drink - slips down!
- 2. Monkey Town Mild, Phoenix, Heywood, Lancashire
- Nice deep flavour.
- 3. Pinnacle Mild, Naylor’s, Crosshills, Yorkshire
- Sweet rich flavour, dark reddish colour, tasty.
- 4. Black Pig Mild, Bazens’, Salford, Lancashire
- Oops - I made no notes on this one!
- 5. Over The Moon Mild, Dark Star, Haywards Heath, Sussex
- Very tasty, rich berry, fudge flavour.
It was another really good night. My fiancée Hannah was with us. “I always have good luck on tombolas,” she proclaimed. Remembering my efforts of the night before I assured her that it was not as easy as that. She bought five tickets and won three prizes!!
So that’s it for another year. Once again it has been a really well organised and entertaining beer festival in Pudsey Civic Hall.
