Gadds Thoroughly Modern Mild. What can we say about this?
The obvious comment is that it is not a mild in any normal sense of the world. It is a hazy, pale beer like a golden ale. It is strongly bitter-sweet - and weighing in at 6% it has a strong alcoholic taste. In short it isn't very mild at all.
It seems to have more in common with a golden Belgian abbey ale in the Leffe line than anything else. But it is strong, warming and mor-eish. A total category error. But a nice beer. 6.2 on the Dirac scale.
6% "mild", a category error indeed! I wonder if the marketing bods are just reusing the word because it has a certain imagery associated with it, like Hovis and cobbled streets etc. I can't imagine anyone younger than 40 really having any connection with it, I do remember my Granddad ordering it (didn't they used to mix it with normal bitter?), interesting that it's doing the rounds again.
ReplyDeleteSteve - if you're from the West Midlands, it's not that long ago that Mild would have run in your veins..... I'm under 40, but still reckon you can't beat a good pint of Mild. Sadly, unless you are in the Black Country it's not easy to find... very few pubs - even Real Ale pubs - have it on tap. Banks's is the standard that Milds are judged by, Sarah Hughes and Ansells can also be found there. Elsewhere it depends. Banks's tends to have the widest circulation, but in the North you do sometimes see Thwaites Mild which is passable. If you see it, Cain's Dark Mild (mainly in Liverpool but occasionally spotted elsewhere) is pretty good, even in tins.....
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