What's your best recipe for a good (AG) Dark Mild?

[Minimasher]

Just love Dark Mild. Used varying amounts of crystal, chocolate, black malts and roasted barley and some torre wheat. All with varying degrees of success.

What's your favourite recipe?

[OldSpeckledBadger]

I just use pale, crystal and black malt and Fuggles hops.

[Minimasher]

I just use pale, crystal and black malt and Fuggles hops.

Cheers OSB, I used black in my last and turned out well. What % black do you used. I was worried about it being too acrid but turned out well.

[OldSpeckledBadger]

What % black do you used. I was worried about it being too acrid but turned out well.

90g for a 23L brew which 2.3%. I don't see the point in using too much. I'm actually considering dropping it down to 60 or 70 g.

[dave-o]

3500 pale
350 extra dark crystal
150 torri
40g fuggles - 90 min
30g fuggles - 10 min

[Blackaddler]

Just love Dark Mild. Used varying amounts of crystal, chocolate, black malts and roasted barley and some torre wheat. All with varying degrees of success.

What's your favourite recipe?

This one

[WishboneBrewery]

I was thinking of something like this...

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Dark Mild

Fermentable	Colour	lb: oz	Grams	Ratio
Golden Promise	5 EBC	5 lbs. 5.0 oz	2410 grams	37%
Munich Malt	20 EBC	5 lbs. 2.7 oz	2350 grams	36%
Caramalt	20 EBC	2 lbs. 11.5 oz	1240 grams	19%
Wheat Malt	3.5 EBC	0 lbs. 11.5 oz	325 grams	5%
Black Malt	1100 EBC	0 lbs. 6.9 oz	195 grams	3%

Hop Variety	Type	Alpha	Time	lb: oz	grams	Ratio
Whitbread Golding	Whole	6.4 %	60 mins	0 lbs. 1.4 oz	40 grams	28.6%
Progress	Whole	5.6 %	20 mins	0 lbs. 1.8 oz	50 grams	35.7%
Willamette	Whole	4.4 %	0 mins	0 lbs. 1.8 oz	50 grams	35.7%

Final Volume:	23	Litres
Original Gravity:	1.062	
Final Gravity:	1.017	
Alcohol Content:	5.8%	ABV
Total Liquor:	34.8	Litres
Mash Liquor:	16.3	Litres
Mash Efficiency:	75	%
Bitterness:	38	EBU
Colour:	99	EBC

[booldawg]

I brewed one a couple of years ago that turned out good. If using dry yeast I'd go for Windsor;

It was a 30L batch and turned out at 3.2% ABV.

1930.00 gm Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 40.21 %
1000.00 gm Mild Malt (4.0 SRM) Grain 20.83 %
1000.00 gm Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 20.83 %
400.00 gm Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 8.33 %
300.00 gm Chocolate Malt (450.0 SRM) Grain 6.25 %
170.00 gm Wheat, Torrified (1.7 SRM) Grain 3.54 %
58.00 gm Fuggles [3.70 %] (90 min) Hops 17.8 IBU
14.00 gm Goldings [3.50 %] (15 min) Hops 1.9 IBU
14.00 gm Goldings [3.50 %] (0 min) Hops -
1 Pkgs English Ale (White Labs #WLP002) Yeast-Ale

[Rookie]

Honorable Member Mild
3 gallons
O.G. 1.038
F.G. 1.010
I.B.U.s 18-22

4 1/2 pounds mild ale malt
8 ounces crystal 60 malt
6 ounces flaked oats
4 ounces aromatic malt
2 ounces light chocolate malt

3/8 ounce home grown goldings for 45 minutes
1/8 ounce home grown goldings for 30 minutes
pinch of irish moss for 15 minutes
1 pack Wyeast 1318

mash at 153 for 45 minutes