Download beer list and tastings notes (PDF, updated 24 May 2022)
The great Mild Ale comeback continues! I’m co-curating the inaugural weekend-long Born To Be Mild London mild ale festival on 27-29 May 2022 at Sambrook’s Brewery Tap on the historic Ram brewery site in Wandsworth.
The festival will feature 18 different milds from London breweries and elsewhere, including Sambrook’s own new mild and a second brew of the London X Ale 1880s-style pale mild I created with London beer icon John Hatch at his legendary Ram nanobrewery for the launch of my updated London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars guidebook.
Other beers will include John’s own dark mild, many of the growing range from other London brewers including Boxcar (who deserve much credit for rejuvenating the style), and several from outside London including the legendary and hard-to-find heritage mild Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby from the Black Country.
Download a detailed beer list with tasting notes (PDF).
The current list of participating breweries is:
- Anspach & Hobday, Beddington, Sutton, London
- Beerblefish Brewing, Blackhorse Lane, Waltham Forest, London
- Boxcar Brewery, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, London
- Gadd’s The Ramsgate Brewery, Ramsgate, Thanet, Kent
- Green Duck Beer Co, Stourbridge, Dudley, West Midlands
- Harvey’s Brewery, Lewes, East Sussex
- Partizan Brewing Bermondsey, Southwark, London
- The Ram Brewery at Sambrook’s Brewery, Wandsworth, London
- Sambrook’s Brewery, Wandsworth, London
- Sarah Hughes Brewery, Sedgley, Dudley, West Midlands
- Southwark Brewing, Bermondsey, Southwark, London
- Spartan Brewery, Bermondsey, Southwark, London
- Tap East, Stratford City, Newham, London
- Twickenham Fine Ales, Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames, London
- Twisted Barrel Brewery, Coventry, West Midlands
Note that not all beers will be available on every day of the festival. We have limited supplies of most beers and when they’re gone, they’re gone.
We’ll also be holding tutored tastings during Saturday and Sunday, informal meet the brewer sessions, book signings, a Sunday DJ and more.
Timed to coincide with CAMRA’s long-running Mild May promotion, the festival takes place amid growing interest in this much misunderstood historic beer style.
The expansive Sambrook’s tap room on the historic Ram Brewery site in Wandsworth, with its brewing history stretching back to the 1530s, is the perfect venue, with plenty of outdoor space if the weather is fine and gourmet pizzas from Crust Bros available throughout the weekend.
Tickets are £6, bookable in advance, and include a half-pint of Sambrook’s beer plus a half-pint of guest beer. Other beers are available on a pay-as-you-go basis.
I can’t wait to start tasting my way through what will surely be the best lineup of milds ever assembled in London.
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