Mild malt in a Bitter?

[De-Geert]

Hey Guys!
There's a shop in the Netherlands that carries Thomas Fawcett malts, including Mild ale malt. Now I've read that this malt gives a bit more body and sweetness to a beer. So to me it seems a good choice as a basemalt for low gravity Bitters. As for me, it is a challenge to make a beer with a low amount of alcohol (<4%) but without it lacking body and (malt-)flavour.

Good idea?

[WishboneBrewery]

It worked well in a 5% beer I made with mainly Lager hops, I plan on trying it in a low ABV brew sometime.
Think it causes a bit of haze to start with when young.

[johnmac]

I expect you'll make a nice bitter with mild malt - there's nothing radically different, so you shouldn't have too much to worry about. I think it's probably a barley variety called Triumph.

[De-Geert]

Thanks guys, I think I'll just give it a try.

[a-slayer]

I expect you'll make a nice bitter with mild malt - there's nothing radically different, so you shouldn't have too much to worry about. I think it's probably a barley variety called Triumph.

Cor, that brings back memorys, I used to grow that barley years ago, didn't know anyone still grew it.

[raiderman]

It will work out fine. In terms of colour its slightly darker than MO but still pretty light unless you add darker adjuncts. Flavour is good more malty than MO and goes nicely with fuggle or willamette. Green King - I know hardly a by word for quality used to brew a light mild which weighted in at 3.2% and was a fabulous session beer. I brew mine at 1042 using mild malt, a tad of wheat and carapils and fuggles, adding the second batch at 30m and not going for aroma or dry hopping. Very tasty. If you want a more genuine light mild some biscuit malt goes nicely

[De-Geert]

The Bitter I brewed last time was 90% MO, 5% malted Wheat and 5% pale Crystal. It was nice, but missed a bit of maltiness. I think I'll rebrew this with Mild malt and maybe Amber in stead of the Wheat.

[raiderman]

that should come out nice

[beer gut]

I use mild ale malt in alot of my brews.I have had some great results using this malt, i tend to use it in brews where you wan't more of a malt flavour in fact iam going to use it to make my smoked stout caus smoked ales are supposed to be low in hops with a malty finish so i have read anyway.I have never used mild ale malt to make a low achcol bitter, but i can't see any reason why it would'nt work in making a bitter i think it will work just fine.I have also read that mild ale malt is making a come back caus it was almost gone a few years back i think that would have been a great shame and iam glad that people are still using it caus i think it realy helps to give ales more body, malt flavou.Mild ale malt has a extra bonus, it has better dianastic properties than maris otter it can cope with more adjuncts.