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And here we are, finally. At the end of another overlong series. With way more detail than anyone other than me is ever likely to be interested in.

I say provincial Mild Ale, but it’s more like Northern Mild Ale. Only four of the breweries aren’t in the North: Hancock (Cardiff), Home (Nottingham), William Younger (Edinburgh) and Worthington (Burton).

What’s nice is having both the Ordinary Mild and Best Milds from a couple of breweries. Dead handy, because it helps show the relationship between the two at a brewery. It’s clear that Ordinary Mild was around 1032º while Best Mild was 1035º. And that Best Mild cost 1d per pint more.

The colours differed, too. Ordinary Mild was usually darker, though in the case Ramsdens and Websters – both Yorkshire breweries – the colour wasn’t that dark. I know from earlier Lees records that they had it the other way around, Ordinary Mild being pale and Best Mild dark. I think that was unusual. “The Pub and the People”, based on an investigation into Bolton puns in the late 1930’s, states that Ordinary Mild was dark and Best Mild pale. I tend to believe that was the usual relationship.

Having said that, about the only example of a brewery I personally experienced selling both Mild and Best Mild, Thwaites, had two dark beers.

Not much else to say, other than that Worthington’s Mild was pretty bad value. Mind you, beer from the famous Burton breweries sold at a premium price. Even their Mild. Oh, and there are very few really properly brown examples. I count that as 80 plus and only five examples hit that.



Provincial Ordinary Mild 1955 - 1959


Year
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint d
Acidity
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
colour


1955
Hancock
Dark Malt


1032






1955
Hancock
XXXX


1031






1955
Lees
K


1030.0






1955
Thwaites
Mild Ale
16
0.06
1032.2
1006.1
3.39
81.06%
40


1955
Younger, Wm.
X
14

1030.2



96


1956
Lees
Mild


1031.0






1957
Lees
Mild


1032.0






1958
Home Brewery
Mild Ale

0.06
1034.5
1007.6
3.49
77.97%
60


1958
Lees
Mild


1032.0






1958
Scarsdale
Mild Ale

0.05
1035.4
1006.6
3.74
81.36%
130


1958
Vaux & Co
Mild Ale
15
0.04
1030.3
1005.8
3.18
80.86%
27


1959
Bentleys
Mild
13
0.04
1032.9
1005.4
3.44
83.59%
30


1959
Bents
Mild Ale
12
0.04
1033.2
1003.6
3.86
89.16%
55


1959
Chester Northgate Brewery Ltd
Mild Ale
14
0.07
1030.6
1005.6
3.25
81.70%
95


1959
Greenall Whitley
Mild Ale
12
0.04
1030.4
1005.5
3.23
81.91%
80


1959
Lees
Mild


1032.0






1959
Ramsdens
Mild
12
0.05
1029.2
1004.7
3.06
83.90%
45


1959
Threlfalls
Mild Ale
12
0.05
1032.8
1004.3
3.71
86.89%
50


1959
Websters
Mild
12
0.05
1031.6
1004.8
3.35
84.81%
55



average

13.2
0.05
1031.8
1005.5
3.43
83.02%
63.6


Sources:


Lees brewing records held at the brewery.


“Cardiff Pubs and Breweries” by Brian Glover, 2005. pages 97-101


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


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






Provincial Best Mild 1955 - 1959


Year
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint d
Acidity
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
colour


1955
Lees
Best Mild


1035.0






1955
Lees
Bot. B


1035.0






1955
Worthington
Special Mild Ale
19
0.04
1036.9
1007.9
3.77
78.59%
85


1956
Lees
Best Mild


1035.0






1956
Lees
Bottling Beer


1035.0






1957
Lees
Best Mild


1035.0






1958
Lees
Best Mild


1035.0






1959
Lees
Best Mild


1035.0






1959
Ramsdens
Best Mild
13
0.06
1035.5
1006.5
3.63
81.69%
35


1959
Websters
Best Mild
13
0.06
1035
1005.9
3.64
83.14%
20


1959
Whitaker
Best Mild
13
0.05
1033.1
1010.2
2.86
69.18%
45



average

14.5
0.05
1035.0
1007.6
3.47
78.15%
46.3


Sources:


Lees brewing records held at the brewery.


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




And so we’re done. Maybe I should do something similar for Bitter.

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