Does this look like a good Mild??

[greencoat]

Doing my first low ABV today with this proposed recipe - any thoughts/improvements to make it a better mild??

6 lbs Mild Malt
1 lb Munich
8 oz Chocolate Malt
4 oz Roasted Barley

Mash at 154f

1 oz EKG (5AA) @ 60

Ferment ~64f w/ US-04

 

[Oldsock]

You might be a bit heavy handed with the dark malts, but otherwise it looks spot on to me.

 

[HBHoss]

Get a trial copy of BeerSmith and plug it in there. I agree with the above post about the amount of dark malt, unless you want it to be a dark beer?

 

[Malticulous]

Here it is plunged into beer calculus. Click clone and play with it.
http://hopville.com/recipe/278192/mild-recipes/greencoat-mild

I think is more a brown porter. Lose the roasted barley and add some medium crystal.

Something more like
5 lb Mild malt
1 lb Munich malt
12 oz Crystal 50-60L
6 oz Chocolate malt

 

[david_42]

Chocolate OR roasted barley, but not both. And if you decide to stick with the roasted barley, cut it to 2 oz.

 

[greencoat]

Man...I brewed as originally planned before checking the boards again (ut-oh!)

So it's really dark, and as the first batch I've ever done with my new burner (SQ14) it was 1.050 instead of the 1.038 I expected. Those things mean business!

Whatever - it isn't what I expected, but will still make good beer!

 

[Oldsock]

Man...I brewed as originally planned before checking the boards again (ut-oh!)

So it's really dark, and as the first batch I've ever done with my new burner (SQ14) it was 1.050 instead of the 1.038 I expected. Those things mean business!

Whatever - it isn't what I expected, but will still make good beer!

Sounds like a tasty brown porter to me.

 

[no_borders]

i use alot of different malts in my mild, and it gets pretty dark. i think its like 23 srm or somethin. i use special b, pale chocolate, chocolate, victory, crystal 40 and 60, gives the beer a real complexity and still is only like 3.5% abv. milds are a real fun style to play with i think