The Session, a.k.a. Beer Blogging Friday, is an opportunity once a month for beer bloggers from around the world to get together and write from their own unique perspective on a single topic. Each month, a different beer blogger hosts the Session, chooses a topic and creates a round-up listing all of the participants, along with a short pithy critique of each entry. (You can find more information on The Session on Brookston Beer Bulletin).The topic for May's edition of The Session is Localising Mild.
Each May CAMRA in the UK encourages drinkers to get out and drink Mild Ales. This May is the first, as far as I am aware, American Mild Month, which has 45 breweries, so far, committed to brewing mild ales. Of those 45 breweries some are brewing the traditional English dark and pale mild styles, while a couple have said they will brew an 'American Mild', which American Mild Month describes as:
a restrained, darkish ale, with gentle hopping and a clean finish so that the malt and what hops are present, shine through
An essential element of the American Mild is that it uses American malts, hops, and the clean yeast strain that is commonly used over here. Like the development of many a beers style around the world, American Mild is the localisation of a beer from elsewhere, giving a nod to the original, but going its own way.
That then is the crux of the theme for The Session in May, how would you localise mild? What would an Irish, Belgian, Czech, or Australian Mild look like? Is anyone in your country making such a beer? For homebrewers, have you dabbled in cross-cultural beer making when it comes to mild?
The first Friday of May is also the first day of May. May Day, or International Workers Day, and it is apt that a beer style closely associated with the industrial regions of England should be the theme for the Session. Have at it folks!
To participate in the Session, write a post on the topic of Localising Mild, and leave a comment here with a link to your post on or before May 1st 2015, and I will include it in my Round-up.
Here's my submission for this month's session: https://orientebrewolero.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/an-imagination-exercise-in-localizing-mild-in-east-asia-session-99/
ReplyDeleteHere's mine. Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteCheers for hosting, interesting topic. I'm looking forward to reading the other entries. Here's my own: http://thedrunkendestrier.blogspot.ie/2015/05/265-session-99-mildly-does-it.html
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting, Alistair. And, thank you for creating American Mild Month! Here's my contribution: "The Audacity of Mild!."
ReplyDeleteCheers, Al! In support of the cause.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting, Alistair. Here's my contribution: Localising Mild
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Thanks for hosting!
Hah, didn't notice last Friday was the first so I'm a week late in posting mine: http://www.taleofale.com/2015/05/mines-mild-thesession-99.html
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