Mild event in Huddersfield

Spoke to Dave yesterday who confirmed that there will be as many as TEN milds on at a time, including the excellent Ossett Millbridge Mild which is produced only once or twice per year. I would recommend any pubs who may take Ossett beers as guests to try this one. I expect that Riverhead Sparth Mild will be available too.

Paul

In message , Mike Swift wrote

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Isn't that the problem. A lot of milds have already died and for the May campaign brewers are just colouring one of their other offerings with caramel.

In article , Alan writes

Never been a great mild drinker but Mike Roebuck took a few of us from u.l.y to a pub in Wakefield for a similar event and I was quite impressed by the range of tastes, it was a few years ago mind.

Mike

In message , Alan writes

Brakspears mild was always made by adding caramel to the bitter - in the cask, too - but by the time you drank it, it tasted quite different and a lot of us preferred it. We now drink West Berks Maggnificent Mild which is anything but dead.

We'll be in Holmfirth during that time and will get into Huddersfield because I love dark mild.

But ... us old, old, older americans are not really up to buying a ticket and spending the (whole) day drinking. Organically, we cannot.

So I ask, during this period can I walk in off the street, buy a couple of half pints without buying a ticket, check out the town, and stroll back for another couple?

How's it gonna work??

nick

In article , nick writes

AFAIK the Rat & Ratchet is a normal British pub where you walk in off the street and buy a half/pint or more of the beer you fancy, I don't think it will be a special entry occasion for the mild event, Paul could possibly confirm, it would be unusual for a pub to make it a pay per drink job.

Mike

In article , Mike Swift writes

Sorry to follow up my own post but I mean pay for entry job, I blame a surfeit of Scotch, sadly not real ale as Huddersfield though only three and a half miles away from my village is a planet away as regards public transport.

Mike

Thanks for clarifying. We will definitely go into Huddersfield, either by car or by bus, and sample all the milds to be had.

BTW - we also imbibe of the single malts and find a better selection at better prices in Yorks than here in the (southern) (not so united) states.

I can confirm that there will be no entry fee for the Rat & Ratchet event; they will simply be replacing most of their usual guests with milds, leaving probably three pumps with other beers, for those drinkers not willing to participate.

BTW, they are planning to have a beer festival in September, where they will, as previously, set up an additional bar for festival beers, although not as many as the mind-boggling selection which the Star, a short way down the road, had recently (the Star had an array of 46 handpulls at the last festival I attended!)

As mentioned elsewhere, a short visit to Huddersfield should take in the R&R, Star and Grove, with a visit to the Albert for a look at the beautiful (subjectively!) and almost unique woodwork and glass around the bar which, typically for Britain, was on the verge of being ripped out by the pub company 18 months ago until locals managed to persuade them otherwise. The four pubs will typically give a choice of about 35-40 real ales altogether; then there's the Station Tavern and the Head of Steam too if that's not enough.

Paul

Damn - you beat me to the typo induced punning opportunity, you rascal.

it wasn't always made with caramel, in its last few years at Henley it used the slightly better roast barley extract.

Incidentally the German malz suppliers brew an incredibly weak version of a similar product to do the same job - turning helles into dunkel in one quick scoop. Because it's been very slightly brewed, it's officially a beer, not an additive; "farbebier" - "colour beer" -

"rienheitsgebot mein Arsch!" as the German Jim Royle might say :~)

mmmm, lovely beers. cheers MikeMcG

Meadowwww.readingbeerfestival.org.uk

Ah ... thanks for all the "extra" reccos! We will try all those pubs while in the area. Can't wait. Last couple of times in The North, we found a distinct lack of the heavier, darker Yorkshire brews that we had come to love, such as Ram Tam, OP, Riggwelter, and so on. With a selection of 35-40 real ales, we prolly will not be constrained to LichtBraus.

nick

In message , Mike Swift writes

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it - if you live. (M Twain)

Small earthquake, not many injured?

I LOVE golden / light mild, but it is so hard to find.

Even when it is sold somewhere, it is never described as such and is hard to recognise from the descriptions!!

I think you'll find that that is not an option for Mike, sadly.

Ordinarily I'd fully back that, but having taken my bike to Huddersfield and then asked directions to the Sair Inn just up the valley a little, I couldn't quite grasp why people were looking at me funny, even commenting that I "wouldn't be taking that there". I'm really not sure now that I should have taken up that gauntlet, took me a pint and a half to recover...

Distances round there seem to be based on "as the crow flies" and not include the nearly equivalent changes in elevation.

I did afterwards proceed up to Marsden, in the centre of which Ossett Brewery have recently acquired another brewpub whose name escapes me right now, but frankly it was excellent. Obviously helped that the sun was out, there's a nice river confluence in the garden (or in front, depending on how you view ownership of land) and there's a nice tea shop across the road that lets you take away a baked potato and chili and a slice of their enormous home made cake since the pub doesn't seem to be doing food.

Of course not! There's precious little flat land round there, and going up and down hill is as natural as breathing to Pennine folk!

the only thing flat is them hats.

Please note...

They are called 'caps'

Dave in Lancashire