Dark English Mild
DARK ENGLISH MILD Not a lot is said about the Dark English Mild Ale anymore. It's simply not all that popular. It used to be. In England, and other parts of the UK as well, the Mild was a wildly popular beer for hundreds of years. Believed to have been first brewed in the 17 century, the Mild spread throughout the isles as a drinkable, low octane beer that didn't have to be aged for very long before enjoying. It was called a young beer or fresh beer because of it's relative youth compared to the heavier beers of the day. At one point, almost every tavern or beer hall in the UK featured a Mild of some kind. Back in those days, beer styles were less rigidly regulated as they are today. A Mild was more about the impact of the beer, less about its coloration or hop content. A Mild could be dark, like the one we are making today, or golden, like a lightly hopped Bitter. Milds are malt forward, leaving the light hoppy beers to the Bitter world. Caramel and chocolate malts le...