Magoo's Mild, 3rd place in Cat 11 at 2011 HBT Comp

This is Orfy's Mild Mannered Ale, a famous recipe around here. Some of us made it without changing the recipe and entered it in the 2011 HBT competition, as a side competition that I called "Milds gone Wild".

This "Magoo Mild" beer finished in 3rd place in the West of the 2011 HBT competition with a 35. It advanced to the second Best of Show round, where I think it also got 3rd place.

The judges' comments-- "Well Made Beer." ."a well made, drinkable beer with good malty balance... some nice malt and ester notes..."

Both judges wanted more malt complexity in the grain bill.
I also would use a different English yeast if I were to make it again.


11.5 pounds Maris Otter (3.0 SRM)
3 pounds Briess Caramel 60L (60.0 SRM)
10 oz Chocolate Malt (UK) (508.0 SRM)

Boil for 60 min total.

@ 45 mins, add 2.5oz Fuggles pellet [3.6% AA]
@ 15 mins, add 1.0oz Fuggles leaf [4.5% AA]

Time to crank this out again... 10 gallons to test diff yeasts.

So..? How'd it go with the new yeast? Which was it, did you modify the grain bill to make it more "complex"?

I ended up doing it as a partigyle, making an ESB for first runnings with WL Burton yeast and getting about 4 gallons of Mild that I fermented with dry S-04. The mild was much better. I am not a WL Burton ale (#13?) yeast fan.

Thank you thank you thank you for this recipe...

We brewed this a couple weeks ago, got it in the keg this weekend, and it is absolutely AMAZING!!!

PROST!!!

Thanks. Orfy created the recipe and you brewed it, so props to you guys!