Comments on: Session #3: The Mysterious Misunderstood Mild

By: Eric Spencer

Eric Spencer — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:11:29 +0000

Super late, but wanted to make sure that I contributed to the posting. I chose Aldergrove’s Brown Eyed Girl Mild and Anchor’s Small Beer.
http://www.brewerman.com/2007/05/the-session-3-milds/

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 09 May 2007 02:24:01 +0000

Oh Noooo! Not the buuuuusssss!!!!

[Say in best Mr. Bill voice.]

By: J

Tue, 08 May 2007 18:31:07 +0000

Sheesh, what is it with you people and pilsners? I love pilsners. Really I do. I only used them in my analogy because Al mentioned them in one of his personal asides. Believe it or not, gentlemen, there are far more pilsners than milds here in the gosh darn U.S. of A. and I don’t believe for a second that anyone would have anywhere near the trouble finding one that they did milds. So the analogy still works. If it makes you feel better, insert “pale ale” where it says “pilsners” and see if that makes more sense for you. So I’ll expect that one of you will be choosing pilsners when you sidle up to the bar for your hosting duties, no?

By: Steve Beaumont

Steve Beaumont — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:59:40 +0000

Jay, didn’t mean to give you a hard time, and believe me, I wouldn’t blame anyone for the current spate of glorious springtime weather we’re experiencing up here. My purpose was just to throw a good lede in front of my words about the Harvest Moon mild.

I do have to side with Lew in the latest throw-down, though. He and I are both lucky enough to have good pilsners in our backyards — come to think of it, Lew’s got two, no, three! — but a lot of people are not. Given the general anti-pilsner bias of much of the craft beer world, I do think it would be laudable to feature that style some Session.

By: Ainz

Ainz — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:41:01 +0000

You getting paid by the word on these blog entries, Jay? KIDDING.

By: J

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:55:50 +0000

Oh, Bryson, nasty? I certainly wasn’t going for nasty, you big galoot. I was merely suggesting that choosing a more readily available style might be too easy, and that we should challenge ourselves. In fact, I believe you made that point when we were originally debating the mild style choice over a month ago. I believe you’re correct that you’d find more craft-brewed IPAs and pale ales than pilsners in most, if not all, decent beer stores. But they’re still much more accesible than many other styles and over the last ten years, the number of lagers made by craft brewers has practically exploded, especially compared to how few there were more than a decade ago. I’m not against pilsners as a choice, in fact feel free to choose them when you host (hint, hint). I love a good pilsner. The only reason I picked them for my analogy was that Al from “A Good Beer Blog” carped that we should pick them next because he was having a hard time finding a mild and they would have been far easier for him to locate. Are you trying to pick a fight? ;-)

By: Lew Bryson

Lew Bryson — Mon, 07 May 2007 15:39:35 +0000

“But if we play it safe and pick, say “pilsners” (sorry Al, didn’t mean to throw you under the bus) then we have some fun and enjoy ourselves but we don’t really accomplish much of anything.”

Oh, Brooks, you’ve done it now. I liked you, man, and then you had to go and get nasty. I challenge you to go to a good beer store and find more craft-brewed pilsners than IPAs or pale ales.

A pilsner Session WOULD accomplish a WORLD of good, goshdangit!

By: Al

Al — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:32:20 +0000

Well, let’s see. I’m on a mission to find a Mild and have had a new liquor store recommended to me which I’ll be trying out; I went on a tear and bought four different British imports to try; and have more-or-less decided that my next batch of homebrew will be a Mild.

I think you were successful.

By: Lew Bryson

Lew Bryson — Sun, 06 May 2007 17:17:37 +0000

Whew…long day, long night, but I’m finally done, and I did get mild.

http://lewbryson.blogspot.com/2007/05/sbp-mild-weather-in-may.html

By: Al

Al — Sun, 06 May 2007 01:18:47 +0000

Even the world-famous Brickskeller in Washington, DC, which has over 1000 different beers on their beer list, only seems to have one Mild available. Very telling, indeed.

By: Lew Bryson

Lew Bryson — Sat, 05 May 2007 17:16:02 +0000

HEY! I’m working on it. Sorry, I’m far from home and at the mercy of (benevolent) strangers: I’m speaking at the Southern California Homebrewers Festival in Temecula today, and yesterday just didn’t offer any mild (although I did get some of Ballast Point’s Even Keel Session Ale, which kind of reminded me of the 3 Floyds Pride & Joy: 4.2% and hoppy as bejeezus). But the Maltose Falcons will have FOUR milds available today…so I’ll have something for you late tonight or early tomorrow. Cheers, folks!

Lew

By: Steve Beaumont

Steve Beaumont — Sat, 05 May 2007 13:18:43 +0000

“Fault” is not a word I would associate with as glorious a day as it was yesterday — and I hear will be again today — in Toronto, Jay. My comment on the weather was simply an observation via-a-vis the beer’s suitability to its circumstances, hardly an assigning of blame.

On the scarcity issue, though, I think I’d get support from at least Rick, Alan, Jon and Dave.

Who is up next, BTW?

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:40:51 +0000

Jay:

I gave it better than a college try and came up dry. Here’s my report. http://lyke2drink.blogspot.com/2007/05/session-3-frustrating-walk-on-mild-side.html

Cheers!
Rick

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 05 May 2007 00:25:02 +0000

There you go – another failed effort to find a mild.

Next month, can someone pick, say, maybe pilsner?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:18:00 +0000

Funny you should mention Monty Python. Black Sheep is the same brewery that makes the gimmicky Holy Grail Ale (tempered with burning witches).

By: John Allison

John Allison — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:24:54 +0000

Got a post up. Hopefully I can read the rest tonight. Off to pick up some yeast for brewing tomorrow (AHA Big Brew), then drinking beer at a homebrew gathering…

http://blog.sinequanon.net/2007/05/mild-session/

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:01:50 +0000

Another meta-post for me this time:

http://www.andrewager.com/blog/2007/05/04/the-session-iii-the-heretic/

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:42:24 +0000

Mine’s up too. http://thomsbeerblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/session-3-milds.html

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:27:00 +0000

Got mine up, now, too: http://www.thebrewsite.com/2007/05/04/the-session-3-milds.php

By: Donavan

Donavan — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:59:26 +0000

I’m in with a podcast about my trip to Market Porter in London to drink Gunpowder Strong Mild (3.8%ABV):

http://donavanhall.net/blog/?p=493

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:26:57 +0000

I’ve got a new beer blog, so I’m perhaps not really part of the “scene” per se, but I figured I’d chime in anyhow: http://beersbeersbeers.blogspot.com/2007/05/moorhouses-black-cat.html