Redemption Brewing Co. & Taproom Victorian Mild

Brewed in collaboration with  our good friends at Redemption Brewing Co.

We've made this beer 5 times before, going back 12 years, but always and only at Redemption’s brewery in Tottenham. This is the first batch we’ve welcomed them to ours and brewed it here. The inspiration is what we think a mild ale of the Victorian era would be like – to our current tastes this would come across as something warming, stronger than we would expect, lush and rich with caramels, toffees, burnt sugars on both the flavour and the mouthfeel. Fruity US hops playing an untraditional but pitch perfect supporting role that buttresses and reinforces the malt at play in its dessert like qualities. The colour runs to dark autumnal hues, browns and russets and heavily concentrated reds. All tempered however through the spice brought on with our house London Ale yeast character, bready / gingerbread, and marmaladey all round. Yet the finish is clean, bitterness arrives to wrap things up.

Malt – Maris Otter, Vienna, Crystal, Dark Crystal, Chocolate 

Hops – El Dorado 

Yeast –  London Ale

A single 500ml bottle of Victorian Mild, 5.9%

Victorian Mild - Redemption Collab 5.9%
Malt: Maris Otter, Vienna, Crystal, Dark Crystal, Chocolate
Hops: Cascade
Yeast: London Ale

We've made this beer 8 times now. Like last year, we made two batches, one at Redemption and one here in Bermondsey. It's inspired by what we think a mild ale of the Victorian era would be like.
A couple small tweaks to the malt base on this version seems to have made it less 'ruby' (like last time) and more 'dark mild' bringing out some incredibly luscious Italian chocolate flavours. Milk chocolate, hazelnut, toffee, damp woods.