Mild, as my 75year old dad said ' it kept them hydrated at lunchtime whilst working in a hot Midlands steel foundary , Son don't knock the style, it had its place and reason'.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel I don’t know about you but I feel the ale that is sold as Irish Red or Ruby Ale is just a mild ale that is a certain set of shades.
@@colinwhite4710 Sullivan’s red is a lovely strongish caramel, light nutty, quite biscuity with slight blackberry with only light bittering hops. Cairnes and Perry’s made milds until the 1950’s. Smithwicks acquired Perry’s before Guinness acquired Smithwicks. Guinness also acquired Cairnes intellectual property. In 1966 Smithwick’s no.1 ale a bitter is replaced by the darker and sweeter Smithwick’s draught.
Where I live in Bolton most locals breweries produce a mild so we’re really lucky. By FAR the best mild I’ve ever had had though is Dark Mild by Banktop Brewery. A pint of that in one of their three pubs is ridiculously cheap (£2.50), immaculately cask conditioned and absolutely sublime. You guys need to make a trip here just to try it. It’s THAT good.
Here in Ireland they were continuously brewed from the mid 19th century to the 1950’s even possibly 1960’s with Perrys making mild ale from their opening towards the end. Most of what are called Irish red ales are pretty much mild ales with Smithwicks at 3.8 percent being the biggest seller. Personally of this Irish type mild my favourites are in order 1. Sullivans red ale 5%, 2. Dundalk Bay Brewery red ale 4.2%, 3. Brehon Brewhouse Killany red ale 4.5%. There are dark milds being brewed, with the West Kerry Brewery dark mild 3.5%, Four Provinces Gob Fliuch Dark Mild 3.8% and my favourite dark mild Ballykilcavan Endurance dark mild 4.2%, they also make a russet red mild at 4.2% which is lovely. Evidence of Perry’s mild ale, colour is very similar to Smithwicks www.purcellauctioneers.ie/catalogue/lot/53c54591783ef34d3dc1ca23e88a4453/81B29AB6FA187A02A829C1899B734425/monthly-antique-and-collectable-auction-to-include-a-single/.
I associate Mild with The Black Country namely Banks's Mild which has been around for a hundred years or more. I didn't know there was another brewer who did it. You don't need a Victorian recipe, Banks's started brewing their mild during her reign and are still doing so today.
Hadn't had a mild in decades! Used to have an occasional pint back in the day, breaking up a session of bigger beers. However. I was visiting Norwich and went to the Garnet and had a pint of Shortts' Two-Tone. Very nice on cask.
I know this is an old video. But love love love mild. Its my go to style. And as a home brewer my "house ale". I always do a seasonal one ala saison to incorporate some of the foraged local bounty. My absolute favorite is my mild plus toasted shagbark hickory bark. Comes across chocolatey, sweet, toasted marshmallow, and inscence/hint of smoke. Thank god its almost fall lol.
I remember Boddies mild in the 70s/80s being a light mild - just a little deeper in colour than the very pale bitter. Seasonally they had a pale strong ale- usually from a pin on the end of the car during the Winter months. Back in the 50s and before, they had a gradation of mild strengths - C, CC, CCC and the strong evolved from these. Strangely a pint of up to 8% strong was only a few new pence dearer than the bitter or mild
What a fantastic, underappreciated style. Next time you're back in the states/near Philly, check out Yards Brawler. Fantastic representation of the style and available in a lot of places
as craft beer is seemingly moving toward more malt forward beers, do you think the UK will re-discover (or just discover?) all the amazing German beer styles that exist? great channel, keep it up.
On a more positive note. Great video. I tried the Ruby Mild from Redwillow ..... I had always thought a mild was dark and weak, this is 6.5%! But very lovely
I remember my dad letting me have a half of Kimberly Mild when I was in my early teens and it was probably the first time I enjoyed the taste of beer. But to be fair my prior experience was having a little sip of Stones lager 🤢
I didn't know I needed to know this. But so glad I do now. I racking my brains trying to remember the proprietary brand of mild that was knocking about it the Midlands circa 1980's.
My homebrewing techniques need to improve but I made a 3.5% amber mild made with Maris Otter, wheat flour and dark caramel for colouring along with fuggles for bitterness. It’s my pride and joy! Was disappointed that the stuff ran out fast.
Brass Castle's Hazelnut Mild served on cask in North Bar, Harrogate is one of the best pints I've ever had. It's not one of their core range, but worth checking out if it's on your local bar when the pubs reopen ;-)
I had a delicious pint of XX at the Greene King brewery tap a couple of years ago. Spot on flavour for a classic post-WW II Mild. I'd say one of the best Milds I've drunk in years, except I very rarely get to drink it. Nothing can top Tetley's Mild. At least when it was brewed in Leeds. Drank almost nothing else for 7 years.
Not one for drinking mild but would definately try the one from boxcar. Can't remember the last time I drank a Greene king beer! I can hear brad saying "i could have drank in cooler bars if it wasn't for those pesky kids!!!" Stick with the O.A.Ps brad. Maybe you can get a nice silver tankard behind the bar with your name on it! Loved the video guys!!!
Brought up in the East Riding; used to love Hull Brewery Mild but would also drink Tetley Mild, Bass xxxx and Riding Mild from Mansfield Brewery. At university in the midlands I drank Highgate Mild and Ansells Mild. All great beers at the time. Never drank mild at home though, all cask conditioned in pubs. I always saw the decline in Mild as a consequence of the wider decline of pubs as the primary location for drinking
Hi guys Love the videos. Just don't see many milds about these days. Would a mild work with some new world hops like sabro or idaho 7? It could be called a new world mild
When I first started work, the older blokes I worked with would have several pints of what they called "mixed" most evenings at the pub, I've no idea what it was but I suspect it was half mild and half something else like a plain bitter or something.
A very British problem... much like Bitter, Mild has been pushed to the back of the pub for a number of years probably partly due to its name and perception. It's everything that shouldn't make it good, it's usually dark and low ABV and hard to find if you fancy a pint. But its weaknesses are also some of its strengths, you want a table beer? Mild. You want something a little roasty? Mild. Maybe a little sweet or nutty? Mild. Did I mention the price? A Mild revival, a Mild revolution or a session black IPA in any other name
I did indeed not ask for this, but I'm very happy that you answered anyway. And now I'm gonna go read Beer Companion by Michael Jackson, may his ale never go stale.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel wow telepathy, just having it now. Tindall ales - Mild. Forgot how refreshing milds can be. Perfect way to finish a busy Sunday doing errands!
Boxcar have also canned a few bitters as well I believe. What are your guys opinions on typically cask suited styles going into cans? I personally like them however its a different experience not having the nuances from a conditioned cask.
Great qustion Ken. Nothing can replace cask for the nuance and body it adds to classic British brewing, but you can adjust slightly for it in bottle and can with lower carb and a little more residual sugar. Some breweries also can-condition (Moor Beer were the first to try it) to recreate that nuance. Still won't be as good as cask.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel it's so good. Redwillow are really putting out some fantastic beers at the minute. I rarely hear them spoken about but I honestly think they are one of the best breweries around.
Nice to see a variety in the beers you discuss. It can't all be TIPAs and Fruit Smoothie IPAs! That being said, f green king! The worst pubs, the worst beers on offer. If the pub is a green king I'm out!
It is an old ale so will have some links recipe wise to mild and stale, but modernised and clean fermented at this point and actually probably way lower in abv
Until very recently, mild almost never had roasted malt in it. If it was a dark mild, the colour came mostly from caramel colouring, or dark invert sugar, and to a lesser degree crystal malt.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel very sure. I spent ages going through Ron Pattinson's articles on mild looking for examples that used dark malt. Out of probably over a hundred recipes only a few had any dark malt. The main "dark malt" was amber. I never saw brown malt in a mild recipe, only porter and stout. I was kind of disappointed. I found a recipe from Adnams that bucked the trend a bit, if you'd like me to find it for you. The vast majority of the colour in old dark mild recipes (dark mild is a 20th century thing) comes from caramel colour.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel I'd be very interested to see information about brown malt mild. Of course it may just be talking about the adjective mild applied to pre-porter brown ale or beer.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel I won't keep spamming you after this, but it's rare that I get a chance to talk about mild. Dark Mild recipes don't look anything like porter recipes, but look extremely like recipes for bitter but use mild malt instead of pale, are hopped less, and coloured up dark. The earlier you go, the paler and simpler the recipes get. The ur mild is just mild malt and lots of hops. Later they start getting invert sugar added, then crystal, and then adjuncts like flaked maize. As the beer gets weaker due to taxation and rationing during war, they add more and more colour.
The history of all these "What is [style]" videos seems to be the same; - Loads of different types of beers were called [style] - Someone said "This is silly" and decided "Okay, from now on, THIS type of beer is [style]!"
I didn’t put it past him after learning how Michael Jackson bought up the rights to all of the Beatles and that’s why they fell out of fashion and returned after he died and the songs were re released
Greene King, a company that has made a career out of making pubs worse. They can take the most beautiful pub, destroy its interior, destroy its atmosphere, serve the dullest blandest food and introduce the beer you least want to drink. I remember in the 80's and 90's would take over a brewery and close it down as it would make better beer. Now they continue their profession of destroying British beer and pub heritage by taking any pubs individualism, culture, style and atmosphere and putting it literally into a skip. Pre-Covid I had a huge amount of business visitors to the UK and of course, they want a great British pub experience I always had the Greene King name and log ready with advice never ever go into these pubs.
Indeed. A lot of the pubs are awful, soulless places and we dont really love the beers but when it comes to an example of this style it is pretty accurate. I think it is probably the best selling version too.
Mild is a great beer, and your right the best Mild's are brewed in the North and your drinking Greene King out of a clear bottle?? prob the worst mild in the world oh dear
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Oh it does, from water purity, ingredients used, to storage, it all matters. One thing confused me about you video, you say the North does the best Mild. Yet you use Greene king, cheep as you can possibly get, don't care about storage or the environment owned by a Hong Kong non brewing company. And the other two beers are London beers? Where was that best craft Northern Mild? With sustainability and independent all the things that make craft, craft? Is this a new route your channel is taking reviewing Greene King the reason we are turning to craft beer in the first place?
@@kw2142 dude can I please have a conversation, without you jumping in and being offended about a conversation that has nothing to do with you? we are just sharing opinions, if you don't like that jog on.
Of course Mild is a style. You should really do more research before making these "what even is x" videos. This and the Cold IPA ones were way off the mark.
I mean if you watch for another 30 seconds you see us explain that comment. Mild is a style now, albeit a broad one. For the first few hundred years of its existence it was not.
Mild, as my 75year old dad said ' it kept them hydrated at lunchtime whilst working in a hot Midlands steel foundary , Son don't knock the style, it had its place and reason'.
As someone named "Bland" I can confirm that I would love to be named "Mild".
Haha! Oh God! No offence meant.
Oh dw at all - none taken!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel I don’t know about you but I feel the ale that is sold as Irish Red or Ruby Ale is just a mild ale that is a certain set of shades.
@@oscarosullivan4513 feels that way indeed
@@colinwhite4710 Sullivan’s red is a lovely strongish caramel, light nutty, quite biscuity with slight blackberry with only light bittering hops.
Cairnes and Perry’s made milds until the 1950’s. Smithwicks acquired Perry’s before Guinness acquired Smithwicks. Guinness also acquired Cairnes intellectual property. In 1966 Smithwick’s no.1 ale a bitter is replaced by the darker and sweeter Smithwick’s draught.
I love me a Dark Mild. Whenever a brewery in the USA has one, I'm excited.
Where I live in Bolton most locals breweries produce a mild so we’re really lucky. By FAR the best mild I’ve ever had had though is Dark Mild by Banktop Brewery. A pint of that in one of their three pubs is ridiculously cheap (£2.50), immaculately cask conditioned and absolutely sublime. You guys need to make a trip here just to try it. It’s THAT good.
Next time we're in the region we'll hunt it down!
Sounds lovely
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Could you do Irish red ale or Irish stout.
Again a great video! Looking forward to more 'UK-style' video's, like mild, bitter and Old Ale. They are virtually non-existent where I'm from.
Microbreweries in my native New Jersey have started to produce dark milds. I hope it catches on and becomes more common here.
Here in Ireland they were continuously brewed from the mid 19th century to the 1950’s even possibly 1960’s with Perrys making mild ale from their opening towards the end.
Most of what are called Irish red ales are pretty much mild ales with Smithwicks at 3.8 percent being the biggest seller. Personally of this Irish type mild my favourites are in order 1. Sullivans red ale 5%, 2. Dundalk Bay Brewery red ale 4.2%, 3. Brehon Brewhouse Killany red ale 4.5%. There are dark milds being brewed, with the West Kerry Brewery dark mild 3.5%, Four Provinces Gob Fliuch Dark Mild 3.8% and my favourite dark mild Ballykilcavan Endurance dark mild 4.2%, they also make a russet red mild at 4.2% which is lovely.
Evidence of Perry’s mild ale, colour is very similar to Smithwicks www.purcellauctioneers.ie/catalogue/lot/53c54591783ef34d3dc1ca23e88a4453/81B29AB6FA187A02A829C1899B734425/monthly-antique-and-collectable-auction-to-include-a-single/.
Love when these videos come out. Gives me an excuse to crack open a tinny and settle down for a chat with you two!
Thank you for taking one for the team and drinking a Greene King XX Mild. That is one less bottle on the shelves.
Haha you know what it wasn't a bad beer though! Didn't mind it at all.
Greene King Mild is the worst Mild in the world
Underrated and wrongly hated beer that 🍺 amazing on cask
I associate Mild with The Black Country namely Banks's Mild which has been around for a hundred years or more. I didn't know there was another brewer who did it. You don't need a Victorian recipe, Banks's started brewing their mild during her reign and are still doing so today.
Hadn't had a mild in decades! Used to have an occasional pint back in the day, breaking up a session of bigger beers. However. I was visiting Norwich and went to the Garnet and had a pint of Shortts' Two-Tone. Very nice on cask.
I know this is an old video. But love love love mild. Its my go to style. And as a home brewer my "house ale". I always do a seasonal one ala saison to incorporate some of the foraged local bounty. My absolute favorite is my mild plus toasted shagbark hickory bark. Comes across chocolatey, sweet, toasted marshmallow, and inscence/hint of smoke. Thank god its almost fall lol.
Woah this sounds amazing! I'm going to have to find some hickory bark
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Mild much like Irish red ale are balanced, soft on the tongue beers.
I'll tell you what Mild is, bloody gorgeous that's what it is and not enough breweries make them. That said don't drink the Green King one.
We liked it! A tad thin, but would like to have it on cask to see if that helps.
The Boddys/NEIPA link just blew my mind 🤯
Mild is a hugely underrated style. I love St. Peter's Mild, very low ABV, great flavour.
Cheers boys!!! Definitely an underrated beer style...I never miss a chance to hit a pint of Mild.
Great video, really enjoyed this one especially as i embarrassingly had no clue what a mild is. Might try to brew one myself.
Great conversation as always boys. Cheers!
Used to be able to get four cans of Banks' mild in the West Midlands even 10 years ago. Surely still a thing...
I remember Boddies mild in the 70s/80s being a light mild - just a little deeper in colour than the very pale bitter. Seasonally they had a pale strong ale- usually from a pin on the end of the car during the Winter months. Back in the 50s and before, they had a gradation of mild strengths - C, CC, CCC and the strong evolved from these. Strangely a pint of up to 8% strong was only a few new pence dearer than the bitter or mild
What a fantastic, underappreciated style. Next time you're back in the states/near Philly, check out Yards Brawler. Fantastic representation of the style and available in a lot of places
as craft beer is seemingly moving toward more malt forward beers, do you think the UK will re-discover (or just discover?) all the amazing German beer styles that exist? great channel, keep it up.
I've definitely been looking forward to this video. Mostly for the actual content, but also for Ron Pattinson dropping knowledge in the comments.
We made it as a springboard for him.
Another superb video - great work
On a more positive note. Great video. I tried the Ruby Mild from Redwillow ..... I had always thought a mild was dark and weak, this is 6.5%! But very lovely
I remember my dad letting me have a half of Kimberly Mild when I was in my early teens and it was probably the first time I enjoyed the taste of beer. But to be fair my prior experience was having a little sip of Stones lager 🤢
I didn't know I needed to know this. But so glad I do now. I racking my brains trying to remember the proprietary brand of mild that was knocking about it the Midlands circa 1980's.
Banks Mild, I think.
Another mild, Higsons, was the first pint I ever had in a pub in Liverpool, 1984
Brings a tear to my eye
@@mq9298 Ahh that was it!! Banks's. They did a brown ale as well, if I remember correctly. Ah memories
My homebrewing techniques need to improve but I made a 3.5% amber mild made with Maris Otter, wheat flour and dark caramel for colouring along with fuggles for bitterness. It’s my pride and joy! Was disappointed that the stuff ran out fast.
To be fair, the idea of a world first full deep dive on all global beer sounds pretty King of Pop
He did buy giraffes and All of The Beatles
English Milds are awesome !!!! as well English Extra Bitters.. we need more of these in the US
Brad nailing the tasting notes! Never thought id see the day
The dude knows his way around sweet beers!
Brass Castle's Hazelnut Mild served on cask in North Bar, Harrogate is one of the best pints I've ever had. It's not one of their core range, but worth checking out if it's on your local bar when the pubs reopen ;-)
I'm extremely intrigued by this beer.
Attic in Birmingham recently started making a lovely dark mild that’s definitely worth checking out
We had it! Very nice interpretation from one of the style's main homelands.
I'm partial to Rat Brewery's Dark Ratanic Mills Imperial Smoked Mild - 9% ABV. Goes down a treat but can't drink too many in one session!
I had a delicious pint of XX at the Greene King brewery tap a couple of years ago. Spot on flavour for a classic post-WW II Mild. I'd say one of the best Milds I've drunk in years, except I very rarely get to drink it.
Nothing can top Tetley's Mild. At least when it was brewed in Leeds. Drank almost nothing else for 7 years.
By far my favourite style
Boxcar Double Dark Mild is delicious. Definitely, does taste like a pastry stout (but a milder version).
Not one for drinking mild but would definately try the one from boxcar. Can't remember the last time I drank a Greene king beer! I can hear brad saying "i could have drank in cooler bars if it wasn't for those pesky kids!!!" Stick with the O.A.Ps brad. Maybe you can get a nice silver tankard behind the bar with your name on it! Loved the video guys!!!
Brought up in the East Riding; used to love Hull Brewery Mild but would also drink Tetley Mild, Bass xxxx and Riding Mild from Mansfield Brewery. At university in the midlands I drank Highgate Mild and Ansells Mild. All great beers at the time. Never drank mild at home though, all cask conditioned in pubs. I always saw the decline in Mild as a consequence of the wider decline of pubs as the primary location for drinking
Definitely part of it - mild on cask is a very different experience to mild in bottle.
Great content on an overlooked "style"! It's a great drink, the OG malt-forward session!
What exactly is a 'bitter' ?. You cant get it in Ireland but anytime i've been in the uk i love a bitter.But its not bitter
Haha we have that video in the works!
LHG brewpub make a lovely dark mild. Would recommend it. Such an underrated style and a welcome change.
Do they!? That's super cool.
i used to serve mild and bitter half and half back in the 80's
I remember those days!
Was looking for my next non stout/Porter dark beer to brew... Dungeons, Dragons & Mild (DDM)
You should make arrangements with distributors in the US. I would like to be able to try the beers that you are describing in your videos.
Cool video! We need more of these historical beer styles videos! Any traditional scottish style?
We'll be getting to all the main styles in the end - Scotch Ale for sure!
Hi guys Love the videos. Just don't see many milds about these days. Would a mild work with some new world hops like sabro or idaho 7? It could be called a new world mild
When I first started work, the older blokes I worked with would have several pints of what they called "mixed" most evenings at the pub, I've no idea what it was but I suspect it was half mild and half something else like a plain bitter or something.
I think it might be half mild half bitter...will have to research
A very British problem... much like Bitter, Mild has been pushed to the back of the pub for a number of years probably partly due to its name and perception. It's everything that shouldn't make it good, it's usually dark and low ABV and hard to find if you fancy a pint.
But its weaknesses are also some of its strengths, you want a table beer? Mild.
You want something a little roasty? Mild.
Maybe a little sweet or nutty? Mild.
Did I mention the price?
A Mild revival, a Mild revolution or a session black IPA in any other name
My grandad always has a pint of chestnut mild and for whatever reason I always just assumed it was super heavy
A typical pre-1880s mild would've been pale, over 1.060 and hopped to 50ibu or higher. It's crazy how beer styles can evolve with time.
I always get theakstons mild if I see it . It's roast, low abv but refreshing.
I did indeed not ask for this, but I'm very happy that you answered anyway.
And now I'm gonna go read Beer Companion by Michael Jackson, may his ale never go stale.
had to buy myself a Mild for this weekend after watching this, haven't had one in years!
Which one did yo get? Enjoy it after all that time?
@@TheCraftBeerChannel wow telepathy, just having it now. Tindall ales - Mild. Forgot how refreshing milds can be. Perfect way to finish a busy Sunday doing errands!
Would love to see more US brewers branch out and make some of these!
We had some wonderful mild at Forest & Main in Philadelphia!
Going from stout and porter to mild. This is great. Bitter next?
You called it!
There’s that bottle opener again
Come for the beer, stay for the opener
Boxcar have also canned a few bitters as well I believe. What are your guys opinions on typically cask suited styles going into cans? I personally like them however its a different experience not having the nuances from a conditioned cask.
Great qustion Ken. Nothing can replace cask for the nuance and body it adds to classic British brewing, but you can adjust slightly for it in bottle and can with lower carb and a little more residual sugar. Some breweries also can-condition (Moor Beer were the first to try it) to recreate that nuance. Still won't be as good as cask.
I would love to try any one of those beers. Sometimes its difficult to watch these videos.
Damn sorry. Hopefully a brewery nearby is making mild!? Where are you from?
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Salt Lake City, UT USA. I'll have to ask the local brewers if they know of a mild or where to get one. Thanks!
Wonder how this methodology could be applied to Irish red ales?
I'm all for DDH (Double Decocted Helles)
I am so here for this new translation.
Any idea what the recipe was for the Victorian Mild? It looks to be too dark to me. Unless it's a very late 19th century one.
I'll ask and drop you a note!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Thanks.
Twisted Barrel have tried to get past the connotations of ‘mild’ by naming their (delicious) mild ‘Beast of a Midlands Mild’.
Redwillow do a fantastic heritage ruby mild you guys should check out
I have one in the fridge for tonight! Great beer.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel it's so good. Redwillow are really putting out some fantastic beers at the minute. I rarely hear them spoken about but I honestly think they are one of the best breweries around.
Nice to see a variety in the beers you discuss. It can't all be TIPAs and Fruit Smoothie IPAs! That being said, f green king! The worst pubs, the worst beers on offer. If the pub is a green king I'm out!
Haha yeah cant remember the last time I drunk in one but XX is a good example of the mild in our heads
Guy #1: Hey, Michael, what do you think of this beer?
Michael Jackson: 🎵It's bad, it's bad. I know it. I know it🎵
How is Mild compared to Brown Ale? I've never had Mild before.
Watch the sales of XX Mild go up a lot now
Haha I doubt it! I dont think our influence or our review of it is powerful enough! Everyone should go buy boxcar!
is Theakston's Peculiar a mild ale? Also what is an "old ale"? Is that just a mild? #confused
It is an old ale so will have some links recipe wise to mild and stale, but modernised and clean fermented at this point and actually probably way lower in abv
Until very recently, mild almost never had roasted malt in it. If it was a dark mild, the colour came mostly from caramel colouring, or dark invert sugar, and to a lesser degree crystal malt.
Are you sure? I'd expect there were many still being brewed to traditional early 20th century recipes, maybe even with some brown malt.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel very sure. I spent ages going through Ron Pattinson's articles on mild looking for examples that used dark malt. Out of probably over a hundred recipes only a few had any dark malt. The main "dark malt" was amber. I never saw brown malt in a mild recipe, only porter and stout. I was kind of disappointed. I found a recipe from Adnams that bucked the trend a bit, if you'd like me to find it for you.
The vast majority of the colour in old dark mild recipes (dark mild is a 20th century thing) comes from caramel colour.
Interesting. Will try to dig out those articles. I've seen lots of references to milds being made with brown malt but that might have been 1700s
@@TheCraftBeerChannel I'd be very interested to see information about brown malt mild. Of course it may just be talking about the adjective mild applied to pre-porter brown ale or beer.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel I won't keep spamming you after this, but it's rare that I get a chance to talk about mild. Dark Mild recipes don't look anything like porter recipes, but look extremely like recipes for bitter but use mild malt instead of pale, are hopped less, and coloured up dark.
The earlier you go, the paler and simpler the recipes get. The ur mild is just mild malt and lots of hops. Later they start getting invert sugar added, then crystal, and then adjuncts like flaked maize. As the beer gets weaker due to taxation and rationing during war, they add more and more colour.
Say what you want about the word "mild" it sounds way better than "stale"
Boxcar mild is delicious
is an aged mild still a mild?
Haha it is a good question. That kernel/redemption beer could well be a stale.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Stale, probably the only thing that sounds less inviting than Mild!
oh johnny, you are like a cloud.
pint of mix please lol
If it's relaunched would it sell in mainstream pubs. Mild suffered from adulteration in the 60s and 70s .. the big brew giants mopped up
Unfortunately dark beer generally doesn't sell as well as pale beer. But I'd love to see more dark mild out there.
The history of all these "What is [style]" videos seems to be the same;
- Loads of different types of beers were called [style]
- Someone said "This is silly" and decided "Okay, from now on, THIS type of beer is [style]!"
You are not wrong. But that person was usually in marketing and saw profit to be had.
Unctuous... Is there a more enticing word when describing a beer?!
I was confused when you mentioned Michael Jackson, then I realised it was a different one and not some moon walking craft beer nerd :)
What in the world is that on the wall?
It's a heater!
You missed a trick there, lad. You could have mentioned the fact that "mild" was also referred to as "running beer" and "stale" as "stock beer".
Michael Jackson, the Carl von Linné of beers.
Old men, and that’s me drink stout.
I didn’t put it past him after learning how Michael Jackson bought up the rights to all of the Beatles and that’s why they fell out of fashion and returned after he died and the songs were re released
Bostin is what Mild is
so Michael Jackson liked beer just as much as he loved kids
Greene King, a company that has made a career out of making pubs worse. They can take the most beautiful pub, destroy its interior, destroy its atmosphere, serve the dullest blandest food and introduce the beer you least want to drink. I remember in the 80's and 90's would take over a brewery and close it down as it would make better beer. Now they continue their profession of destroying British beer and pub heritage by taking any pubs individualism, culture, style and atmosphere and putting it literally into a skip. Pre-Covid I had a huge amount of business visitors to the UK and of course, they want a great British pub experience I always had the Greene King name and log ready with advice never ever go into these pubs.
Indeed. A lot of the pubs are awful, soulless places and we dont really love the beers but when it comes to an example of this style it is pretty accurate. I think it is probably the best selling version too.
Ashover Victorian ruby mild, thank me later
loaded up with brewers caramel :( very bad for you
Haha it's not bad for you, and likely no worse than what put in our Pastry Stouts these days!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel 4-methylimidazole is bad stuff and it's the reason Newcastle brown changed from it to malts for its colour
Mild is a great beer, and your right the best Mild's are brewed in the North and your drinking Greene King out of a clear bottle?? prob the worst mild in the world oh dear
We thought it was OK! Not sure the clear glass matters given how little hop matter touched it....
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Oh it does, from water purity, ingredients used, to storage, it all matters. One thing confused me about you video, you say the North does the best Mild. Yet you use Greene king, cheep as you can possibly get, don't care about storage or the environment owned by a Hong Kong non brewing company. And the other two beers are London beers? Where was that best craft Northern Mild? With sustainability and independent all the things that make craft, craft? Is this a new route your channel is taking reviewing Greene King the reason we are turning to craft beer in the first place?
@@MrMikeyb1978 it's just one beer review dude calm down, these guys aren't going to be bought up by the Chinese
@@kw2142 dude can I please have a conversation, without you jumping in and being offended about a conversation that has nothing to do with you? we are just sharing opinions, if you don't like that jog on.
Of course Mild is a style. You should really do more research before making these "what even is x" videos. This and the Cold IPA ones were way off the mark.
I mean if you watch for another 30 seconds you see us explain that comment. Mild is a style now, albeit a broad one. For the first few hundred years of its existence it was not.