Mild & Bitter Were The Days

But meanwhile the first wave of UK lager drinkers, those who powered the drinks growth in the s as they themselves turned 18, are now in their mid-to-late 50s: A big difference is that Porter, Mild and Bitter were all predominantly British products, whereas lager is international. The pre-eminence of Pilsner is already starting to slip. I think people will be shocked to see how quickly it declines once the rot sets in. This is a great question. Session IPA might be a contender but, ach, who knows!

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Not to question your skills of clairvoyance and prophesy, Martyn, but to add a bit of minutiae for the record:. The next big acquisition was technically on Dec. Breckenridge brewed about 70, barrels in Which, actually, I did ….

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Hi Martyn, nice article — it inspired me to take a look at the Dutch situation. Over here in Holland, Heineken is making some pretty silly moves to keep lager in the picture: Telling signs that something is slowly going wrong for them. Clearly the people at Heineken realise that lager is going out of fashion, and they struggle to keep their flagship brand interesting.

H41 is a limited edition of an experimental beer with the Patagonian yeast. The situation here is also completely different from that in Britain, where different ales were always widely available, even when one of the species dominated. I doubt whether pilsener will be doomed in the end. This is based on my son and nephew, both early 20s, having it as their pint of choice.

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Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Nowadays I don't mix beers in a glass - I reckon if that's how the brewer brewed them, that's how I should drink them. Beers are best drunk, in their pure state, as the brewer intended them to be drunk. Just very occasionally though, it does add something, especially if a beer is a bit on the bland side, to mix a couple of beers together.

You may find that more breweries fo this than you think. Now you mention it, I do recall mild and bitter being referred to as a "pint of two's". If we have an extra hoppy session bitter, maybe an American hopped, on at Orpington Lib Club.

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I will sometimes mix with a more malty beer. In the early 90s I used to enjoy a light and lager - principally for the aforementioned reason of getting a bit of extra beer for my money. In early s we used to go for a pint of 'golden' - half lager, half bitter - the name obviously coming from its visual appearance. In my younger days in Liverpool I always drank 'golden' half lager half bitter. When I moved to London I used to enjoy going into different pubs and asking for it it just to see what reaction I would get and then explaining what it was.

One barmaid from Portsmouth said to me that they called it a 'mickey mouser' I'd heard this before when I visited Nottingham in the early 90's and I took exception at the time as I thought the barman was trying to get a rise out of me. I asked for it in a pub in Belfast in the late 90's and after explaining what it was I then had to explain what bitter was only to be told that was called 'ale'. My grandad used to drink Light n Bitter followed by a rather large brandy or 2.

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Served in WW2 so deserved it ;. Although the two styles share a country of origin, the English mild and the English bitter are not all that similar. Mild is, as noted above, a light beer—just not in color. It should be easy to drink, low in alcohol, and light on the tongue. The amber malt adds a rich biscuit flavor with some caramel notes it clocks in at about 28L and works better than a light crystal malt, which can taste too sweetly thin.

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The brown malt offers a rich toasted nutty flavor and a touch of roast, which will help create an impression of dryness. In such a light beer, the risk is that you end up with something that tastes more like watered-down coffee than beer, so my recipe calls for a substantial dose of specialty malts that will leave behind lots of dextrins.

Hops are simple in this beer, as all we need is a little bittering.