Boddingtons Mild Ale

[mysterio]

Just realised my beer stocks are low and with the festive period approaching I better get a beer I can start drinking quickly on. I'm going to try out Wheeler's Boddingtons Mild Ale recipe from the book bitter_dave very kindly sent me free of charge . Here's the recipe slightly adapted two corny kegs worth. Hopefully should be ready very shortly after brewing it because of the low gravity. Unfortunately less alcohol just means I'll have to drink more :

Boddingtons Mild Ale
Mild

Type: All Grain
Date: 24/11/2006
Batch Size: 10.20 gal
Brewer: Geoff
Boil Size: 11.68 gal
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: My Equipment
Brewhouse Efficiency: 65.0

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.30 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 84.8 %
0.65 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (78.8 EBC) Grain 10.4 %
0.20 kg Chocolate Malt (886.5 EBC) Grain 3.2 %
0.10 kg Black (Patent) Malt (985.0 EBC) Grain 1.6 %
85.00 gm Fuggles [4.50%] (60 min) Hops 24.9 IBU
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.033 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.009 SG
Bitterness: 24.9 IBU Calories: 43 cal/pint
Est Color: 36.5 EBC

[Scooby]

Great to see someone brewing mild a traditional brew you very rarely see on pump today. You could probably drink it straight from the fermenting bin

Reminds me of my first night behind the bar at my local pub in my late teens, I was told to put all the slops in a bucket, the landlord saw me putting a tomato juice in and gave me a bollocking only the drip trays and slops from the beer glasses went in there The penny dropped, the bastard was filling the mild keg with the slops

It might be a good idea to mash at a slightly lower temp to get a more fermentable wort

[Andy]

why am I not surprised!

[Scooby]

I was a young and impressionable lad of 19 then Andy

30+ yrs latter I trust no one

[Andy]

*hopefully* those days are gone!

[Scooby]

Don't you believe it


I don't Trust no one.

[PieOPah]

If a pub sold it as slops for a nicely reduced price I am sure people would love it....

Hell, if a chip shop can sell the old bits of batter (realy can't remember the name - been down south too long) at the end of the night, then why can't a pub sell slops? Okay, dregs from the left over pints is taking it a bit far.....

[TheBigEasy]

Great to see someone brewing mild Very Happy a traditional brew you very rarely see on pump today

Hey Scooby, if you drink in the right pubs you have no problem getting mild.
If you are ever in the Reading area (don't go special as Reading is shite) get yourself in the Hobgoblin. A strange little pub but what a choice of well kept beer. Always one and sometimes two different milds on tap.

[mysterio]

Reminds me of my first night behind the bar at my local pub in my late teens, I was told to put all the slops in a bucket, the landlord saw me putting a tomato juice in and gave me a bollocking only the drip trays and slops from the beer glasses went in there The penny dropped, the bastard was filling the mild keg with the slops

Yeah I know a couple of pubs in Edinburgh that do that. Is it illegal?

[Mr blue]

Isnt that 'Chips and Scraps' PoPs?

Thats what I called them and the chippie never charged any extra for the scraps.

[PieOPah]

Isnt that 'Chips and Scraps' PoPs?

Scraps, that was it...

If you are ever in the Reading area (don't go special as Reading is shite) get yourself in the Hobgoblin. A strange little pub but what a choice of well kept beer.

This is my favourite pub of all time. What makes it especially great is that I can hae a pint there while the wife is shopping

Now if only all towns had a pub like this in the shopping center

[Scooby]

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Hey Scooby, if you drink in the right pubs you have no problem getting mild

So I have to drive 20 miles to a shite place with no parking to find a decent pub

Thanks TBE I will try the Hobgoblin and if I get out safely I will let you know BTW I know you can still get mild if you search it out, ( as you have proved) but at one time mild was more popular than bitter but has all but disappeared. Now Lager sells more than our 'traditional' bitter and could easily go the same way as mild

[mysterio]

It's certainly a shame to see beer styles dying out. In Scotland, I've never seen mild in a pub.

[johnmac]

The penny dropped, the bastard was filling the mild keg with the slops

I've often thought that was a major reason for the demise of mild. When I was in the pub trade, 20+ years ago, the law said that it was legal to return beer spills specifically to the barrel from which they came. But we put general slops in the mild, Old Peculiar and the even into the Guinness. We would put small amounts in the bitter as well. This was after it had run over the bar persons fingers. We had purpose made filter bowls and filter papers for putting the beer back in the barrel. The process was known as "filtering back". Another, less bad practice in some pubs, is to have a glass in the drip tray to catch the spills from the pint you're pouring. When that glass gets half full, you top it up and sell it, but never to a regular customer. I always check for this and make sure they pick up an empty glass.

*hopefully* those days are gone!

I bet £££ means they're not!

[mysterio]

This recipe is excellent!

I split the batch and made 5 gallons with Muntons premium gold yeast and the other half with Safale S04. I'm drinking the muntons half (FG 1.008) at the moment and it's crystal clear after being fined with auxiliary finings on the 4th day then isinglass in the keg on the 6th day. Ready to drink & tastes great on the 7th day without any off-flavours.