Description
As part of the series of beers featuring WHC Yeast
A huge Mild. Thick and sweet and delicious. 6.3% rather than our normal 3.6%, with ridiculously mild flavours all up in your face. Mega plum and raisin with a hint of roast and creamy, full body.
Recipe created and brewed at Boxcar in London – visit their site to order some of there awesome beers.
This is a big beer and not for the faint hearted. Using over 8kg of malt and featuring WHC Saturated yeast.
Ingredients Included
Crisp Extra Pale (Lager) Malt
Simpsons Aromatic Malt
Simpsons Malts Imperial
SIMPSONS MALT GOLDEN NAKED OATS®
Simpsons Crystal Medium
Simpsons Chocolate Malt
Bramling Cross Pellets
Total malt bill 8.18kg
WHC Dry Yeast Saturated 11g (2 packs)
Method
Beer Style (main): British Ales
Beer Style (sub): English-Style Dark Mild Ale
Batch Size: 23
Original Gravity: 1.072
Final Gravity: 1.024
ABV %: 6.2
IBU: 23.5
THE MASH
Temperature °C: 69
Length (mins): 60
Out temp °C: 75
Out time (mins): 10
THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60
Additions and timing:
First Wort Hops – 40g Bramling Cross
Secondary additions and timing:
N/A
Yeast: WHC Saturated – This is a big beer, so give it time
Fermentation temperature/steps: Pitch at 18c, allow to free rise or increase tempt to ferment at 19c
Comments:
A huge Mild. Thick and sweet and delicious. 6.3% rather than our normal 3.6%, with ridiculously mild flavours all up in your face. Mega plum and raisin with a hint of roast and creamy, full body.
Nigel Macey (verified owner) –
A superb mild kit,deceptively strong but full of flavour.
A must have all grain recipe kit.
Gareth Adams (verified owner) –
Really frustrated. Fermentation stopped in my GF fermenter at 1.040 and couldn’t get it going again. Not sure that there was enough yeast with this recipe.
Robert Neale –
Hi Gareth, yes, when a fermentations stalls it can be frustrating. We have a video / blog post about the possible causes and what can be done here https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/blog/friday-september-11th-burning-sky-and-stuck-fermentations/
Lee Norris (verified owner) –
Excellent. Needs about 2 months conditioning but it’s a great beer
colinbonney (verified owner) –
This is an excellent beer. I didn’t trust my G30 to handle the grain bill so did the mash in two stages and glad I did as the sparge was very slow and the weight of the full grain bill water laden would have been too much for the G30. When doing this again I will buy some rice hulls to go with the kit. The beer was left in the fermenter for 5 weeks, an extended holiday abroad due to covid delayed everything, and the end result was an 8% ABV Dark Mild. Superb taste, a pleasant sweetness, full of flavours like chocolate and raisins, and great mouth feel. It is very very deceptive and hides its strength well. This is on my list for when it comes back in stock.
ianhbarnes (verified owner) –
Absolutely delicious, smooth as silk with beautiful dried fruits. Highly recommended.
Julian Balatoni (verified owner) –
Pushed my brewzilla 35lt to limit with this one, Sparging was the most difficult I’ve had to do, to date. Unbelievably finished up with 6.5%, two weeks conditioning and already a fantastic beer. Further conditioning will only make this better
Andrew Hillis –
This is hard to beat in terms of bang for your buck. I double mashed and it came out at 8.3%. Lovely, smooth and malty. Served on nitro. A nice alternative to stout.