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31-05-2019, 10:45
Visit the Tandleman's Beer Blog site (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/mildly-unhappy-with-myself.html)
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F4L2Bh1GTpA/XPD4LqBbuBI/AAAAAAAAMo4/SjKkTlpG-oorihM8_AwDOlC5NUlrJ-8iACLcBGAs/s320/blackdiamond-may.png (https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F4L2Bh1GTpA/XPD4LqBbuBI/AAAAAAAAMo4/SjKkTlpG-oorihM8_AwDOlC5NUlrJ-8iACLcBGAs/s1600/blackdiamond-may.png)May was - and as I write still is - Mild Month. Now I like mild, especially a good dark mild with a bit of richness and and a tight creamy head. And hush the mouth of the contributor to something or other, somewhere, about sparklers, who said that mild (of all things) doesn't need a sparkler. It does. In fact all cask conditioned dark beer benefits greatly, even if in the best of condition, from being sparkled. Cast into the outer darkness anyone that tells you differently. Personal preference aside, they know not of what they speak and a thin, headless mild will not attract anyone but the most joyless of malcontents to the genre - and it is a genre that surely needs help and the best of presentation.
Anyway, late to the game through circumstance and laziness, I had a couple of pints of Pictish Black Diamond Mild on Wednesday. It was lush. Very lush. So much so I regretted my previous two pints and wished I'd noticed it earlier.
I couldn't imagine it unsparkled. Nor should you.
With my usual fecklessness, I didn't take a photo of the beer. Yu'll have to make do with the doewnload from the website.
Paul Wesley, the brewer at Pictish is a tremendous brewer and a very fine fellow. Seek his stuff out. He is a Scotsman too, so bonus.
More... (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/mildly-unhappy-with-myself.html)
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F4L2Bh1GTpA/XPD4LqBbuBI/AAAAAAAAMo4/SjKkTlpG-oorihM8_AwDOlC5NUlrJ-8iACLcBGAs/s320/blackdiamond-may.png (https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F4L2Bh1GTpA/XPD4LqBbuBI/AAAAAAAAMo4/SjKkTlpG-oorihM8_AwDOlC5NUlrJ-8iACLcBGAs/s1600/blackdiamond-may.png)May was - and as I write still is - Mild Month. Now I like mild, especially a good dark mild with a bit of richness and and a tight creamy head. And hush the mouth of the contributor to something or other, somewhere, about sparklers, who said that mild (of all things) doesn't need a sparkler. It does. In fact all cask conditioned dark beer benefits greatly, even if in the best of condition, from being sparkled. Cast into the outer darkness anyone that tells you differently. Personal preference aside, they know not of what they speak and a thin, headless mild will not attract anyone but the most joyless of malcontents to the genre - and it is a genre that surely needs help and the best of presentation.
Anyway, late to the game through circumstance and laziness, I had a couple of pints of Pictish Black Diamond Mild on Wednesday. It was lush. Very lush. So much so I regretted my previous two pints and wished I'd noticed it earlier.
I couldn't imagine it unsparkled. Nor should you.
With my usual fecklessness, I didn't take a photo of the beer. Yu'll have to make do with the doewnload from the website.
Paul Wesley, the brewer at Pictish is a tremendous brewer and a very fine fellow. Seek his stuff out. He is a Scotsman too, so bonus.
More... (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/mildly-unhappy-with-myself.html)