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Yorkshire ale lovers raise a glass to Mild Month
Yorkshire pubs, breweries and ale lovers are celebrating one of Britain's most traditional beers – mild.
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is staging its annual National Mild Month throughout May.
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Mild beers tend to be of low alcohol content, and are usually dark in colour due to the use of well-roasted malts or barley, and are conventionally less hopped than bitters.
Once classified as an endangered beer style, there are now over 200 milds brewed in the UK, more than double the number brewed at the end of the 20th century.
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The growth appears to be having a real impact. In a survey to 500 real ale drinkers spread across the UK, CAMRA found that 64 per cent of drinkers have seen an increase in the number of mild beers served at pubs and beer festivals over the past five years.
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Similarly, 75 per cent of those surveyed also noted the availability of mild beers in pubs and brewery shops within a 30 mile radius of their home.
The aim of National Mild Month is to encourage local pubs to stock a mild throughout the month of May, and to encourage trial of this traditional beer style through initiatives such as 'try before you buy', third pint sampling measures, mild beer and food matching events, and mild beer tasting sessions.
Yorkshire is home to more small, independent breweries than any other region of England, and many of them are taking part by preoducing mild beers for the celebration.
Among the breweries and the milds they are producing are: Acorn, Darkness (Barnsley), Elland, Born to be Mild (Elland), Rudgate, Ruby Mild (York), Ryburn, Best Mild (Sowerby Bridge), Theakston, Traditional Mild (Masham), Tigertops, Dark Wheat Mild (Wakefield), Timothy Taylor, Dark Mild (Keighley), Cropton, Balmy Mild (Cropton), Atlas Mill, Mild (Brighouse), Briscoe's, Dalebottom Dark (Otley).
To find out what local CAMRA branches are doing in local areas visit www.camra.org.uk/mild
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