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Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Mitchell & Butler Mild and Family Ale 1935 - 1993
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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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