Pretty Things Once Upon A Time, February 27th, 1832, Mild

Pretty Things Once Upon A Time, February 27th, 1832, Mild

Brewed by Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project, Inc.

Cambridge, MA, United States

Style:  English Strong Ale

10.5% Alcohol by Volume

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Once upon a time, on Monday February 27th, 1832, a brewer stepped into the Black Eagle brewhouse, Brick Lane, London, and brewed a beer that confounds expectations many years later. A mild ale at 10% alcohol, with more hops than most modern American "India Pale Ales". Thanks to the unique research of brewing historian Ron Pattinson, we can reproduce this moment in time from the original brewday document. This beer is brewed with mild ale malt and Kent Golding leaf hops: a simple but surprising beer. In Dickensian London, "mild" ales weren't necessarily the watery dark beers we know today. The term "mild" indicated that the beer was sold young, rather than aged. So here you will find a young and hoppy beer from the past. This is the first historical reenactment from Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project. From the reign of William IV, before Big Ben and Tower Bridge were built. From a London of great wealth and poverty, where beer was brewed in huge quantities as an alternative to the untreated and filthy waters of the Thames. We dedicate this beer to the unknown brewer who first made it.