After saying to my wife that I would brew a beer that she can drink for months now, I finally have (hopefully).   Mrs DM doesn't like strong hoppiness, bitterness, coffee, roast barley bitterness or "Turkish Delight" (which I hadn't realised was a flavour in beer until she said & now I find it in several American hop flavours).

Homebrew is easy if you like a dry beer as the yeast just keeps on working until it runs out of sugars to consume.   To make a beer with more body & sweetness you need a few tricks up your sleeve; using crystal malt, honey, molasses (treacle) & demorara sugar can give a residual sweetness as the yeast cannot break down some of the caramelised & longer chain sugars.   This is what I had in mind when I created my molasses mild.

Mash - 1 hour 20 min, 20 litres, 67°c for 60 mins

2 teaspoons citric acid

Pale malt 2.6 Kg

Crystal malt 1Kg

Chocolate malt 100g

Roast barley 10g

Boil - 1 hour

Treacle 2 heaped tablespoon

Dark demorara sugar 100g

Honey 1 tablespoon

20g Northern Brewer hops

This smells like I imagine a treacle tart factory does.   This will get bottled soon but will have to wait a few weeks before trying.

Verdict 2 weeks after bottling: Not overly sweet or cloying.   Full bodied and malty sweet.   Much more chocolatey than treacley.   Will benefit from another couple of weeks maturing.

Verdict 8 weeks after bottling: This beer has dried out quite a lot leaving a definite molasses taste that isn't as fitting as in the younger, sweeter beer.   A really deep red colour & still a good beer.