Description
This kit brews 20ltrs of beer. Full recipe details can be found in the CAMRA’s essential Guide to Home Brewing.
As one of the five core beers produced year round, the very popular Beast of a Midlands Mild is a traditional Midlands style mild, made using a complex variety of malts to provide a rich, textured backbone that belies its minimal strength.
The addition of vanilla pods (not included in kit) provides a creamy finish and aroma.
Founded in 2014, Coventry-based Twisted Barrel described itself as the UK’s first pico-brewery with a tiny brew length of just 60 litres, producing just 120 bottles per batch and selling them to a local bottle shop. It has expanded twice since then, and now brews 1000 litres at a time across a wide range of styles – from traditional, such as their Beast of a Midlands Mild, to vibrant modern New England-style IPAs and fruit beers. Their on-site taproom, located alongside other creative businesses in Coventry’s FarGo Village, has become a popular local destination and allows them to serve their beer at its freshest.
As one of the five core beers produced year round, the very popular Beast of a Midlands Mild is a traditional Midlands style mild, made using a complex variety of malts to provide a rich, textured backbone that belies its minimal strength. The addition of vanilla pods (not included) provides a creamy finish and aroma.
Ingredients Included
Weyermann® Vienna Malt (2810 grams)
Crisp Crystal Malt (330 grams)
Dingemans Biscuit Malt (210 grams)
Weyermann® Carafa Special® Type 3 (110 grams)
Crisp Roasted Barley (100 grams)
Crisp Chocolate Malt (70 grams)
East Kent Goldings ( GOLDINGS ) Pellets (50 grams)
SafAle™ S-04 11.5g (1 packs)
Method
Beer Style (main): British Ales
Beer Style (sub): English-Style Dark Mild Ale
Batch Size: 20L
Original Gravity: 1040
Final Gravity: 1012
ABV %: 3.5
IBU: 20
THE MASH
Temperature °C: 69
Length (mins): 60
Out temp °C:
Out time (mins):
THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60
Additions and timing:
East Kent Goldings 60mins 15g
East Kent Goldings 30mins 15g
East Kent Goldings 5mins 20g
Secondary additions and timing:
Vanilla Pod (not Included) day 5 after fermentation starts
Yeast: S-04
Fermentation temperature/steps: pitch at 19c, ferment until FG
Comments:
As one of the five core beers produced year round, the very popular Beast of a Midlands Mild is a traditional Midlands style mild, made using a complex variety of malts to provide a rich, textured backbone that belies its minimal strength. The addition of vanilla pods (not included) provides a creamy finish and aroma.
Stephen Weller (verified owner) –
Brewed this for my usual ale drinking Suspects and added some vanilla pod before the end of fermentation. All were very impressed. Easy to brew and will certainly be on my repeat list!
stuarthorsfall (verified owner) –
I brewed this and it was lovely a true traditional mild, I kegged it and drew off some bottles and entered it in Brewcon competition and won silver. It’s going to be on my brew list all the time.