Smoked Dark Mild - Falcons Advent, Nov ‘24
This beer was brewed according to a recipe from Smoked Beers (specifically, Brenner Strasse Mild), and the schtick is that it’s a smoked Dark Mild made w/ only Weyermann malts. My version deviates slightly for practical reasons, so CaraMunich II -> 50:50 CaraMunich I and Crystal 60L, Carafa II -> a touch of Chocolate Wheat and Blackprinz, etc.
Notably, a homebrew nerd at MacLeod exhorted me to try Ernest hops like a year ago, so I got a few bags and it’s very personable (so not perfect in, like, a mellow Pale Ale/Golden Ale) and thus a very snug fit for Dark Milds and some Pale Milds in my opinion. I’m sure it’d work amazingly in any dark British beer
Bottle conditioned using 1.74g-1.79g of corn sugar per bottle yielding about 2.0 volumes, maybe 1.9-2.0
FG, per my Tilt, looks like it’s 1.008, so w/ an OG of 1.045, we get an ABV (per BeerSmith) of about 4.9%, making this effectively a Session Smoked Porter (though by historical standards, 4.9% for a Mild would have been quite normal, as would smoke character, so maybe it’s just a historical Mild Ale, malt countries of origin be damned?). Anyway,
Cheers!