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As someone whose beer perspective goes back as far as the Babylonians, I'm well aware that all styles have their day. Waxing and waning ...

I was thinking about Mild today. As I'm sure you often do. While I was walking the mean streets of my neighbourhood. Only joking. It...

As it's still Mild Month, I though I'd run another old-timey Mild recipe. And quite an unusual one. The Milds of the final decades o...

A chance today to look at another late 19th-century London Mild and see how dark it was. I won't keep you in suspense. It was properly d...

A quick question. How interested are you in the colour of Mild in the late 19th century? A pretty specific question, I know. Just that I...

I'm always finding new information in brewing records. Suddenly twigging what some seemingly random squiggle means. I had this happen to...

Back to Dark Mild again. With an example that I'd already caught, but was lying hidden in one of my spreadsheets. It also demonstrates w...

The results of searching for "Dark Mild" in the newspaper archives were pretty disappointing. I only found a handful of references...

Brewers are proud of the awards they receive. However mean8ngless they might have been. Plenty of competitions would give medal of some sort...

I'm still banging my Dark Mild drum. This new advert I've found definitively answers a question on  an earlier post: did Newcastle D...

If you can drink Mild. And at the very reasonable price of 6.5d per pint. Being honest, the chaps in the illustration aren't my idea o...

I'm still on the hunt for early references to Dark Mild. It's thrown up some interesting stuff. Like this notice of an auction. ...

It was areal shock just how few hits I got in the British Newspaper Archive for "dark mild ale"' Literally, just a handful. ...

I didn't expect to find masses of references to Dark Mild Ale before WW I. But I am surprised at how few I'm finding after it. T...

I've been pondering, as you do, the age of the term "Dark Mild". In the first half of the 19th century there would have been...

As before WW I, London tended to have stronger examples than more rural districts. The difference after WW I, was that the price was aroun...