Mild

If I have a pride and joy in my brewing, this recipe is it. I designed this recipe in my early days of home brewing and it marked a turning point in my understanding of how to design recipes and understand how ingredients affect the resulting flavour of a beer. I was visiting family in England in early 2011 and happened upon a pub/brewery in East Anglia; the pub is The Fur and Feather Inn and the brewery is called Woodfordes. I had their Mardler’s Mild from a gravity fed cask and loved it so much that I decided I needed to recreate that beer to drink at home. I was reading Ray Daniels’ book Designing Great Beers at the time and decided to put my new found knowledge to the test, so I sat down and came up with the recipe you see on this page. Barring very minor tweaks because I like numbers to be round-ish (convert to kg and the nonsense decimals below looks great), the recipe has not changed since the first time I wrote it and has served as a starting point for all my brown English beers. [Read more…]