A pint of Mild

Clarets4me · Post by **Clarets4me** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 4:33 pm

Thwaites mild was called " Danny Keg ", back in the day I seem to recall...

ewanrob · Post by **ewanrob** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 4:39 pm

I remember when I 1st starting going into pubs as a 17 yr old...advised by an old bloke at the bar not to drink pints of Tetleys bitter. Fighting stuff he said, go with a pint of mixed he said. Local to us there was a pub that served Stones bitter, now that was fighting ale.

JohnMac · Post by **JohnMac** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:24 pm

The Mild Tank used to get all the drip tray slops after closing, I have not only witnessed it but poured it in myself

Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:28 pm

Clarets4me wrote:Thwaites mild was called " Danny Keg ", back in the day I seem to recall...

Indeed it was. It won many awards too.

It's now called Nutty Black.

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hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:29 pm

In my youth a few of my Rossendale pals ['valley dwellers] used to drink mild..very odd we thought...12p a pint in the Hop.

If you find yourself in a Young's pub in London or the south-east[ Youngs now owned by Charlie Wells] a pint of mixed is half of Youngs bitter [often referred to as 'ordinary'] and a half of Young's Special - go for it, it's a cracker..don't have too many though.

A bloke in Manchester once told me that when the elephants [back then] at Belle Vue Zoo had constipation, they used to be given buckets of Joseph Holt's bitter or mild...[didn't surprise me]

When I used to go to The Hop, Burnley in my youth, my drink of choice [before I discovered Real Ale] was a pint of Whitbread Gauntlet - and a fine pint it was too..anyone remember that?

Brew Ten was sh11*e beyond belief.

I was working in Jersey in my early twenties and I had never been to the continent proper..my mates came to Jersey for a holiday, and for a treat took me for a day trip to France, where we were going to have a nice lunch and plenty to drink - we caught the hovercraft to St Malo and the first sign of alcohol that we saw was a substantial Watney's Red Barrel hanging over the entrance to a bar..

- we ordered a nice bottle of red wine.

The best pint I ever had was Blue Bird Bitter in the Black Bull, Coniston, the Lake District - we had just come down the Old Man of Coniston and never had ale tasted so good.

Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:33 pm

I used to drink Hartley's when in the Lake District. Not sure if they still brew now - will have a look later.

Cracking pint.

Just looked it up - they were taken over by Robinsons in 1982, who closed the Brewery down.

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 6:33 pm

CleggHall wrote:Mild is not half/half, mild is normally a weaker beer often of darker colour than bitter. It got a bad name in the 60s since old ale was thought to be recycled back into the mild barrel. The key test was if the landlord drank his own mild, then it was OK.

That was still going on in the pub I worked in at the turn of the century. The landlord would put the slops not into the mild but into the pedigree. Aside from this disgusting practice it was a well run pub (The Westdale Tavern in Gedling if any Nottm based posters knew it).

Made me realise the practice must have been widespread. I didn't have a pint of Pedigree for years and years after stopping working there just because the memory of it made me feel sick.

The Nottingham branch of CAMRA arrange a "Mild Trail" each year and list pubs who still serve a real pint of mild.

It's a great drink for a lengthy session or to start the evening before moving onto something stronger. My last pint of Mild was in The Dispensary before the away game versus Liverpool last season.

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 7:22 pm

Rileybobs wrote:Isn't Snakebite cider and blackcurrant and Diesel cider and lager?

Close. Snakebite is half lager and half cider, diesel is the same but with blackcurrant cordial added, so it looks like farmers red diesel.

holdyourfire · Post by **holdyourfire** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 7:27 pm

I thought a snakebite was half a cider and half a guinness. Might be wrong.

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 7:32 pm

holdyourfire wrote:I thought a snakebite was half a cider and half a guinness. Might be wrong.

That's a black velvet.

Also made with Champagne and Guinness but nobody can afford to drink that.

aclaretinstevenage · Post by **aclaretinstevenage** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 7:49 pm

Being Hertfordshire born and bred we grew up drinking Light and Bitter, (your mixed but with light ale not brown)....yeah I know Southern Softie etc etc!! Anyway on my first trip to Turf Moor (v Arsenal David O'Leary's debut 0-0 16th August 1975 - wiki-) I ordered 3 pints of this in what is now the Park View the barman had no idea what I meant and when I explained he said "what in't same glass?, shook his head and poured the pints. Next customer ordered the "mixed" although i'm sure he actually called it a half and half. Barman poured it no problem...............but it was a strange one to me!!

A pint of mild down here was cheap although it sometimes had a hint of (lager and)Lime and that fed the legend that all the slops were poured into one tank and served as mild.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 9:49 pm

I've always gone with a Black and Tan being a stout or porter and bitter mix.

A cracking mix along those lines (no stout though) is Old Peculier and Old Speckled Hen.

It's well slurpable.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 10:56 pm

A pint of Mild is my favourite. There was a pub half way between Salisbury and Southampton which had TWO Milds. Then I went back and there was none! Very hard to come by. There or four years ago, many local club steward got a barrel in. I loved it but he said the locals said it made them drunk quicker, so don't get it again! Bloody idiots!

Brunlea · Post by **Brunlea** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 11:02 pm

A pint of mild was the first drink I ever had in a pub. It was the Hapton Inn and me and my best mate Paul were 15yrs old. (1970s) We ordered it because we thought that was what men drank!

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 11:17 pm

Anyone remember a Whitbread mild called Chester's?

Fabulous pint, really nutty taste, almost like Guinness,
but not in all their pubs, only in a relative few.

Good slurp.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 11:45 pm

ElectroClaret wrote:Anyone remember a Whitbread mild called Chester's?

Fabulous pint, really nutty taste, almost like Guinness,
but not in all their pubs, only in a relative few.

Good slurp.

Yes I do.

But when talking about Irish stouts then Beamish knocks Guinness into a cocked hat.

Off Topic-ish.... Was anyone lucky enough to sample one of the best pints on the planet at the White Lion at Kildwick?

It was merely named Tetley's.

ClaretLoup · Post by **ClaretLoup** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:55 am

Just had a cracking pint of Sam Smiths Mild in the Golden Ball Scarborough this afternoon only £1.35 a pint.

I haven't tried it but their "Alpine " lager is only £1.40. It cannot be any worse than Carlsberg, Fosters etc.

Hendrickxz · Post by **Hendrickxz** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 8:39 am

ElectroClaret wrote:Anyone remember a Whitbread mild called Chester's?

Fabulous pint, really nutty taste, almost like Guinness,
but not in all their pubs, only in a relative few.

Good slurp.

Immortalised by Mike Harding as "Chester's Lunatic Soup" You could still see the redundant Chesters brewery in Salford from trains leaving Victoria up to a few years ago. Don't know if it is still there. It was nobbut a stone's throw from the old Boddies Strangeways Brewery, now a "muck" car park for the arena.

TopCat · Post by **TopCat** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:51 am

I prefer half of bitter with half of lager which is a "golden"

karatekid · Post by **karatekid** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 10:38 am

Beamish was a fantastic stout. I even used to buy it in cans and pour it into my Beamish glass which I sent off for when I'd collected a lot of ring pulls.

Sadly I smashed it one night when I'd had too many of said drink.

Used to sample quite a few Murphys Irish stout too.

AndrewJB · Post by **AndrewJB** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:18 am

Rum and pep - dark rum with peppermint schnapps (I think), was one I can recall my grandparents drinking, and Babycham and brandy (lethal).

Bfc · Post by **Bfc** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 1:50 pm

The best ever pint of bitter I had, was Massey's Old Gold, which was only sold in about 4 pubs in Burnley. That was 2-6 when beer was 1-9 a pint. I think it won a best bitter prize, but sadly, because of the price of a pint, it never took off. I think the recepe died with it when Massey's closed down. Oh for a pint of that beer now.

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 2:42 pm

Funkydrummer wrote: Black Velvet - Guinness and Champagne

the workers club at the bottom of Commercial St. Loveclough had a Guinness chart, on the wall, with all the variations and their names.
Many of the locals had worked their way around the chart and initialled each one afterwards.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:02 pm

Bin Ont Turf wrote:Yes I do.

But when talking about Irish stouts then Beamish knocks Guinness into a cocked hat.

Beamish Black...yum yum

South West Claret. · Post by **South West Claret.** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:45 pm

Slightly O/T but the Guinness was superb in Mulligans yesterday afternoon at 5.20 euros...went in for one and came out with three

...and still made the KO i May Add

holdyourfire · Post by **holdyourfire** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:12 pm

After a few games of 4 aces in whitworth,and a pile of lager,off we went to cranberry fair i( think it was in darwen).Think the lager in there was Grunhaller,or summat like that,and when we were full,we ended up with a bottle of cider,with a whisky in it. Cant believe we are still alive. Happy days though.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:16 pm

A.Claret.Fan wrote:When I worked in Liverpool in the early 80's the incumbents of my local used to partake in a pint of 'golden'. Half bitter, half lager.

I remember in the early 00s visiting friends in Kendal, Cumbria, where they called Stella, "Stella I'll Tw*t Ya"... always tickled me.

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:20 pm

The Cranberry Fair (also called Cranberry Fold at one time) was indeed in Darwen.
And had Grunhalle lager. Not a bad night out as I recall. Went quite a few times.

Think Grunhalle was a famous Warrington brew cos there was a big ad campaign for it at the time.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:28 pm

Does anybody drink Doom Bar?

I went away with the family to Cornwall (where it originates from) around 4 years ago and came across Doom Bar.

It now seems to be much more available in Lancashire/Yorkshire than I ever remember since then.

holdyourfire · Post by **holdyourfire** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:31 pm

Did you ever end up in the little pool,luckily i didnt?

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:31 pm

There was a mix once nicknamed 'Mother in law'.

A pint of Old and Bitter.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:32 pm

IanMcL wrote:There was a mix once nicknamed 'Mother in law'.

A pint of Old and Bitter.

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:33 pm

holdyourfire wrote:Did you ever end up in the little pool,luckily i didnt?

Nope, never ended up in the pool, but swung round those stripey maypoles a few times!

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:35 pm

Just to prove I am not making it up. Just searched and found this blog:

http://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.co.uk/2 ... -half.html

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:41 pm

IanMcL wrote:Just to prove I am not making it up. Just searched and found this blog:

http://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.co.uk/2 ... -half.html

To be honest, I didn't care, I thought it was funny regardless.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:50 am

FactualFrank wrote:To be honest, I didn't care, I thought it was funny regardless.

I get that. I liked it when I first came across it years ago. Some things, you can't make up!

pekinrobin · Post by **pekinrobin** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:17 am

Chesters mild was a very good pint as I recall. the De Lacy in Whalley serve a fine pint of mild, I think its Manns mild. I still like a pint of mixed whenever I can get it but I will always go for a brown split, Manns brown ale and bitter, as my first choice. Molly Rigbys in Padiham still sell brown spits despite very few people (apart from me) drinking it.

bartons baggage · Post by **bartons baggage** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:54 am

My Granddad said it was like drinking flag wash, back in the day.

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:22 am

FactualFrank wrote:Does anybody drink Doom Bar?

I went away with the family to Cornwall (where it originates from) around 4 years ago and came across Doom Bar.

It now seems to be much more available in Lancashire/Yorkshire than I ever remember since then.

Doom Bar on draught is still made in Cornwall, the bottled stuff in Burton. DB was bought by InBev and tends to be the default choice if a pub serves real ale. Only slightly better than GK IPA which has to be the most bland, insipid tasteless p1ss water. Sadly many pubs around me are GK so it is almost omnipresent.

KLClaret · Post by **KLClaret** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:42 am

GK IPA isn't great is it.However here in Norfolk Abbot Ale is in most decent pubs and is a cracking pint. Just wish I knew when to stop as my head will testify this morning.

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:47 am

Some good ale in that region. Woodfords Wherry is one i have sampled. Also Adnams Broadside and Ghost Ship are both excellent