Project 10der and Mild: 10 Milds in 10 days in Month 10

[niquejim]

niquejim's Fat Owl Pale (APA?)

Appearance: Copper with tint of Orange and moderate clarity. Low head.
Aroma: Malty caramel sweet with medium hop.
Flavor: Finishes with a crisp and clean bitterness with some resinous and citrusy character. A little fruity and caramel sweet.
Mouthfeel: Medium body with crispy carbonation bite.

Overall impression: This is a very enjoyable beer, but a little perplexing stylewise.
The grain profile and taste seem to fit an English Pale 8C. Getting some sweet malty and caramel flavors which don't square with an APA. Bitterness is prominent as well as hop flavor but I wasn't getting the Cascade aroma like I would expect from an APA. Carbonation was more fitting of an APA. It would be interesting to try this with an English hop. Good job. A real tasty "discussion" beer.

I started with this TastyBrew.com | Recipes, made it a little smaller and darker and it became https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/fat-owl-pale-ale-55221/, which has become my favorite beer. An English/American APA is a blend of my two favorite beers so this is the logical next step

 

[Chriso]

Heads Up: Goose Island (Chicago) released their seasonal winter beer. Goose Island Mild Winter. Looks very good. I bought a 6er, and am warming one up right now. They bill it as an American Mild Ale.

Pours a brilliant dark chestnut color... like a medium-colored Brown ale...
My nose is a bit stuffy so I'm not getting much aroma, but it's got a bit of biscuit and perhaps chocolate and a little mocha.
I'm not getting much flavor profile out of it, too cold. More in a sec.
Flavor is very toned down. Grain and bread, a little nuttiness. I'm picking up a decent American hop charge for a mild, but not overly hoppy per se. A little bit of spicy rye finishes out the flavor.

According to ( http://kcbeerblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/goose-islands-mild-winter.html ) it's 5.6% ABV, so it's clearly Americanized.

 

[Kilgore_Trout]

Heads Up: Goose Island (Chicago) released their seasonal winter beer. Goose Island Mild Winter. Looks very good. I bought a 6er, and am warming one up right now. They bill it as an American Mild Ale.

Pours a brilliant dark chestnut color... like a medium-colored Brown ale...
My nose is a bit stuffy so I'm not getting much aroma, but it's got a bit of biscuit and perhaps chocolate and a little mocha.
I'm not getting much flavor profile out of it, too cold. More in a sec.
Flavor is very toned down. Grain and bread, a little nuttiness. I'm picking up a decent American hop charge for a mild, but not overly hoppy per se. A little bit of spicy rye finishes out the flavor.

According to ( KC Beer Blog: Goose Island's Mild Winter ) it's 5.6% ABV, so it's clearly Americanized.

I saw a case of this stuff at costco the other day and almost jumped on it. The reviews from beeradvocate are good, but they list it as a rye ale and not a mild. I'm looking for a mild to try out the style, would this be a waste of time for that purpose? Thinking of brewing orfy's recipe....

 

[Chriso]

This would not be a representation of a British Mild such as Orfy's. BUT I have brewed a wonderful mild, and can recommend it as an excellent beer, no matter what this particular not-"Mild" tastes like.

That said, I think it's quite a nice holiday beer. I love rye, I'm biased. But DO brew Orfy's mild anyways!!

 

[BierMuncher]

My 10der and Mild took third in English Brown Ales at the 2008 HHHC Competition in St. Louis. This was the final qualifying event for the Eleventh Annual Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing and there were 365 total entries. I took a few other awards including 2nd in American Pale Ale (a sh!tload of entries in that one).

I knew this mild was tasty...but it's nice to have someone else agree.

 

[LooyvilleLarry]

Congrats BM ! I brewed some of this 15 days ago and it is being tapped at a party tomorrow!

It IS very tasty!

 

[flyangler18]

Nicely done, BM!

 

[Chriso]

Congrats, Biermuncher!!! Are you, uh, listing your full haul of ribbons anywhere? How much did you enter in total?

I wish my keg were not empty. I want another Mild really bad, now.

And I *HAD* to go use all of my odd-end specialty grains in my recipe, too... I would have to buy at least 5# of random, seldom-used malts to reproduce my recipe. But - Perhaps this is my opportunity to "rein in" my recipe, add in a little Honey Malt... mmmm I love my Honey malt...

Daggum. I'm thirsty. All I have are salt & vinegar chips. They'd go great ... with a big old glass of Mild.


Edit: Also - I think you have your RedHook ESB clone in the database twice, it is appearing under your drop down more than once.

 

[CBBaron]

Inspired by this thread I brewed up a mild based somewhat on Orfy's recipe. I used Wyeast 1968 and bottled at about 9 days. It took a good 2 weeks to carbonate so it wasn't exactly young but this is right up there as one of the favorite beers I have brewed. It is a nice dark brown, the aroma is of english hops with a bit of yeast esters. It is full bodied but easy to drink. Just wonderful.

I got a 1l Octoberfest mug a while back and this beer is the perfect excuse to use it. I just pour a 22oz bottle into the big mug and enjoy. It seems the oversized mug concentrates the aroma near my nose for some wonderful smells.

Thats for the inspiration. Hopefully at some point I will be kegging and can try this again on the 10day to 2 week schedule.

Craig

 

[flyangler18]

Wanna do another round?

 

[Professor Frink]

I'm jonesing to do another mild.

 

[Chad]

I'm jonesing to do another mild.

I'd be up for doing this again.

Chad

 

[robtotten]

It's '10, ready again?

 

[Chriso]

I <3'ed this swap. I think the beers I received were only rivaled by the Secret Santa box that Yooper sent me. *grin*

I won't commit to doing it again yet, until I've really truly gotten back into brewing and not just "crapped out one extract batch that tastes like it didn't fermet". But... if I do get back into the saddle... I would likely do another Mild swap some day.