No. 1 from the “Revival Series”

Not currently on tap.

The 1916 X Mild is the first in a series of beers based on recipes culled from the brewing logs of British breweries, both operating and defunct, as well as modern interpretations of ancient, rare and vanishing beers from Europe. We’ll be brewing one a month until we run out of recipes.

First up is a recreation of a 1916 London X Mild from John Courage‚ Anchor Brewhouse in Horsleydown, Bermondsey, London. Nowadays‚ Mild refers to a specific style of beer that is generally low in alcohol and mildly hopped, but “Mild” was originally used to designate any beer which was young or unaged and did not refer to a specific style of beer.

This is Mild from just before Mild gravities began to plummet due to grain shortages towards the end of WW I. Gravities (the amount of fermentables) were limited by law – at one point the average Original Gravity of all the beer produced by a brewery could be no higher than 1030 which would result in an average of 2.8% alcohol by volume(ABV). The gravity of Milds suffered so that breweries could still produce full strength and profitable beer.

Ours weighs in at 1046 OG for an ABV of 4.9%, has 21 bitterness units and is an amber color.