- Antwerp Arms – Tottenham, London
- Blackfriars Tavern – Great Yarmouth
- Chapter Arts Centre – Cardiff
- Dirty Duck Ale House – Holywood
- Drummer’s Arms – Blackburn
- Duke of Wellington – Norwich
- George Inn – Portsmouth
- Grapevine – Exmouth
- Half Moon – Hitchin
- New Inn – Colchester
- New Plough Inn – Hinckley, Leicestershire
- Ostrich – Prestwich
- Pharmacie Arms – Syston
- Puckersley Inn – Royton
- Southampton Arms – Kentish Town, London
- The Cricketers Arms – Saint Helens
- The Smithfield – Derby
- Victoria – Walsall
- White Lion – Hampton in Arden
- Woolly Sheep – Skipton
It’s good to see that the Campaign For Real Ale is promoting Mild May again. I’m not sure what the roots of the tradition are, even though I’ve been a member for 50 years.
However mild, once see as an old man’s drink(disclosure, I am old but I am so much younger now etc..) is definitively back.
With the rise of what was called craft beer, it became clearer that mild was a style of beer as much as a strength. I’m familiar with the two London pubs on the list. The Antwerp Arms in Tottenham sells Trinity a super tasty light rather than a dark mild at 3%. The Southampton and indeed the Cock Tavern E8 and the Pocket towards the Highbury Corner end of Upper St N1 will have a dark mild. Sometimes from the house brewery Howling Hops, sometimes not, but often at a 4%+ strength.
Living also in Cardiff as well as North London I’ve no idea why the Chapter Arts Centre is listed- a great venue but in recent times average for beer. The good news is that one of the classic dark milds Brains Dark is back on cask in some great trad pubs in central Cardiff such as the City Arms and the Old Arcade.
Not many days left in May now but mild, variable in style and strength is always to be found. A classic beer style without question reinvented by the new range of Indy breweries
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