English Mild

[irish_goat]

Beoir are due to brew their third beer with a microbrewery with the intention of having it ready for serving at the Killarney festival at the end of May. Not sure which brewery yet but the beer style is a mild so they need a recipe. As far as I know there's not been any mild beers released by an Irish brewery yet either. 

Gonna brew this weekend and going for a simple enough recipe. The hops are a Slovenian variety, descended from Fuggles. Hop character should be low to none anyway so it's not too important.

3.6% ABV
16 IBU
12 SRM

Malt:
3KG Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt
0.34KG Light Crystal
60g Chocolate Malt
Hops:
40g Savinski Goldings 2.5% @ 90mins
Yeast:
Wyeast 1098 (Whitbread) yeast

Fermenting at 18c for 7 days, then bottled and drank young.

[Bubbles]

As far as I know there's not been any mild beers released by an Irish brewery yet either.

I think a certain home brewer we know did a mild for Brewtonic??

[irish_goat]

As far as I know there's not been any mild beers released by an Irish brewery yet either.

I think a certain home brewer we know did a mild for Brewtonic??

You're right! This will be the 2nd then. First to appear on cask (open to more correction). 

[Bubbles]

As far as I know there's not been any mild beers released by an Irish brewery yet either.

I think a certain home brewer we know did a mild for Brewtonic??

You're right! This will be the 2nd then. First to appear on cask (open to more correction). 

There might be someone along in a minute to refute that! 

[Bubbles]

What's the WhiteLabs equivalent of that strain? WLP005, from memory?? Isn't it supposed to be a notorious diacetyl producer?

[irish_goat]

Ah I give up. 

White Labs have it too.
https://www.whitelabs.com/yeast/wlp017-whitbread-ale-yeast

[Leann ull]

sure we had a Mild at Brewcon last year, dont think there has been a Tropical Stout or Gose done

[molc]

We had a mild made with mild malt at an SDB meet made by Bruce. It gave a real depth of flavour to it from what I remember - really delicious brew.

[Bubbles]

sure we had a Mild at Brewcon last year, dont think there has been a Tropical Stout or Gose done

A smoked mild, no less...

[Bubbles]

We had a mild made with mild malt at an SDB meet made by Bruce. It gave a real depth of flavour to it from what I remember - really delicious brew.

Top brewer, and sorely missed he is.

The mild malt is kilned a little higher, obviously giving it a toastier character. No substitute for the real thing of course, but I'd say you could get a similar effect with some specialty malt easy enough.

[irish_goat]

sure we had a Mild at Brewcon last year.

That was an English brown.

I didn't get mild malt but reading online it seems that adding 10% Munich should give a similar result. Might do that.

[irish_goat]

I ended up using an extra kilo of MO and skipped the sparge stage so hopefully will give it a nice maltiness. OG came in perfect at 1.036 and it was lovely and malty going into the fermenter.

Only issue was my Wyeast smack pack didn't expand so I'm hoping the yeast was still viable.

[irish_goat]

Checked today and there was no life in the brew. I suspect the yeast was done, date was August 18 2015 though so it should have been ok. Threw a satchet of Gervin yeast just in case but it won't be the beer I wanted to get.