Comments on: What colour was mild?

By: Ron Pattinson

Ron Pattinson — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:55:29 +0000

Great stuff again. I wish I could understand why Mild changed colour. It seems to have happened in phases and between the wars Barclay Perkins were producing versions of the same Mild in different shades. The “natural” colour was a darkish amber (I reckon about the colour of Boddingtons Mild, if you remember that) but it was also darkened with caramel to produce something we would recognise as Dark Mild.

One of my missions is to pin down exactly when Dark Mild appeared.

By: zythophile

zythophile — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:53:45 +0000

I wasn’t really away, mate, just very busy writing stuff that actually paid money - and pieces like this take A LONG TIME to pull together, believe me …

By: The Heart Possessed By Love Of Beer

The Heart Possessed By Love Of Beer — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:59:49 +0000

[...] this story. Mine is but a cheap cut and paste job from Google news while his is a good in depth bit about the colour of mild. Yet his does not once reference a lady who received a young man’s heart in a transplant and [Ed.: [...]

By: Stonch

Stonch — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:12:08 +0000

I’ve recently been led to ponder this same question…

Great piece Martyn. Good to see you blogging again.