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Thinking. It can be a terrible thing. Posting about Ansell's beers reminded me of M & B, thie duopoly pals in Birmingham. You can probably guess where this is going. Especially if you bothered to read the title of this post.

Remember me saying that I was surprised by how few analyses of Ansell's beers I had? The same isn't true of M & B. I've got so many analyses that they won't fit neatly into a single post. Which is why I'm spinning it out to a series of posts.

I'll be honest about the Family Ale. I'm not quite sure what style you would call it. As it's not far in colour from their Mild Ale, I've lumped it with that.

Which brings me onto another point: the relatively pale colour of both Ansell's and M & B's Mild. 40 EBC is about the colour of Newcastle Brown - the netherworld between pale and dark, in my eyes. It's no surprise that the Milds of the two companies were broadly similar. They were competing head-to-head in the same market.

The gravities track each other in a similar way, around 1038º in the 1950's, 1035-1036º in the 1970's and 1980's. The Keg Mild is obviously simply the Mild kegged. Noy such a shock, really.

By the time I drank M & B Mild, I'm sure it was darker. A typical Dark Mild colour, so about 80-90 EBC. I wonder when it turned darker?

The Brown Ale, you may have noticed, is considerably darker than the Mild. But the gravity is close, so my guess would be that it's the Milds darkened with sugar or caramel.



Mitchell & Butler Mild and Family Ale 1935 - 1993


Year
Beer
Style
Price
size
package
Acidity
FG
OG
colour
ABV
App. Atten-uation


1935
Family Ale
Ale

pint
bottled
0.05
1008
1040
34
4.2
80.00%


1951
Family Ale
Ale
1/1.5d
pint
bottled
0.04
1007.5
1034.5
30 B
3.5
78.26%


1951
Family Ale
Ale
1/2.5d
half
bottled
0.07
1007.4
1034
28
3.5
78.24%


1953
Family Ale
Ale
1/3.5d
pint
bottled
0.05
1007.3
1033.4
33 B
3.4
78.14%


1955
Sam Brown
Brown Ale
11.5d
half
bottled
0.05
1011.2
1036.9
85
3.3
69.65%


1949
XX
Mild
1/6d
pint
draught
0.05
1003.9
1034.6
35 Brown
4.0
88.73%


1949
Mild Ale
Mild
1/1d
pint
draught
0.1
1003.5
1034.5
38.5 B
4.0
89.86%


1950
Mild Ale
Mild
1/1d
pint
draught
0.04
1005.4
1034.6
37 Brown
3.8
84.39%


1950
Mild Ale
Mild
1/5d
pint
draught
0.05
1003.8
1034.5
38 B
4.0
88.99%


1950
X
Mild
15d
pint
draught


1038.4
41




1961
Keg Mild
Mild
19d
pint
draught
0.04
1009.9
1038.5
45
3.6
74.29%


1962
Keg Mild
Mild
22d
pint
draught
0.05
1007
1038.3
50
3.9
81.72%


1963
Keg Mild
Mild
20d
pint
draught
0.04
1010.2
1037.9
50
3.5
73.09%


1966
Mild
Mild
19d
pint
draught
0.05
1005
1036.9
45
4.0
86.45%


1972
Mild
Mild
11-13p
pint
draught

1009.8
1034.5

3.2
71.59%


1977
Mild
Mild

pint
draught


1034.6





1979
Mild
Mild

pint
draught


1034.6





1981
Mild
Mild

pint
draught


1034.6





1982
Mild
Mild

pint
draught


1036





1983
Mild
Mild

pint
draught


1035





1986
Mild
Mild

pint
draught


1036





1989
Mild
Mild

pint
draught

1009.8
1036

3.4
72.78%


1993
M&B Mild Ale
Mild


draught

1008.1
1033.5
48
3.3
75.82%


Sources:


Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001


Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002


Daily Mirror July 10th 1972, page 15


1993 Real Ale Drinker's Almanac


Truman Gravity Book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number B/THB/C/252


Good Beer Guide 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.



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