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What have two years of war done to Young’s standard Mild?  For a start, it’s whittled off 5º of gravity. Leaving it barely over 3% ABV and n...

Moving forward in time a couple of decades, we find a new version of X Ale. Which looks very much like a modern Mild. And is not very typica...

Part of the unusual parti-gyle with the Pale Ale above was this Mild Ale. Now, you may be asking why the ingredients aren’t the same. The an...

Here’s another confusing beer from Strangman. On the face of it, the name, X Ale, indicates that this was a Mild Ale. But it’s not that simp...

Another Chapman beer today. I've just spent a whole day writing up my Cairo trip. The another posting them out for the next week or so. ...

At the end of the 1880s, there was quite a big cut in the gravity of X Ale. Followed by another, smaller one, in the second half of the 1890...

As at most breweries, X Ale, base level Mild, was one of the most popular beers. And a good bit stronger than today’s version of Ordinary Mi...

There are certain beers where, in the absence of a price list to tell you exactly what they were marketed as, it’s hard to be certain about ...

We.re continuing our walk up Tetley’s Mild hill with X2. The next to strongest of the four. I’ve mentioned that the recipes for the Milds ar...

Next on the Mild pile was X1, logically enough. The recipe is pretty much the same as X, even though the two were not parti-gyled together. ...

Despite all their newspaper adverts pushing their East India Pale Ale, in the 1880s Tetley was basically a Mild Ale brewery. They produced f...

Now we’re done with one set of Younger’s Ales, it’s time to start on another one: the X’s. If the Shilling Ales are Milds and the X Ales are...

We’re outside the major cities again with Harveys. Not exactly rurally based, but a fairly small market town. The surprise here is that the ...

A final Mild recipe for Mild Month. I've published a couple of things on the topic. I've done my bit. When WW I was lurking the corn...