The Mild you’re most likely to encounter hereabouts is Greene King’s XX Mild. Many connoisseurs regard it as the best ale they produce. Smooth and slightly sweet on the tongue, it has a subtle but pleasing bitterness in the finish. It also belies the myth that Mild is a thin beer; XX packs lots of body despite its low gravity.
Other Milds you can find include Elgoods multi-award winning Black Dog, Milton’s very tasty Minotaur and Batemans Dark Mild – only 3.0% ABV but bursting with flavour.
Listed below are the pubs in our area which feature Mild permanently plus those that regularly have it as one of their guest beers. Needless to say, there’ll also be a wide selection of Milds at the Cambridge Beer Festival in May, including all those produced by our local breweries.
So go on, give it a try, and keep the outlook Mild
Permanent Outlets
- Cambridge
- Free Press – Greene King XX
- Clarendon – Greene King XX (closed at time of writing)
- Bath – Greene King XX
- Portland Arms – Greene King XX
- Devonshire Arms – Milton Minotaur
- Chesterton Green Dragon – Greene King XX
- Clarendon – Greene King XX (closed at time of writing)
- Elsewhere
- Milton Waggon and Horses – Elgood Black Dog
- Conington White Swan – Greene King XX
- Histon Red Lion – Elgood Black Dog
- Cherry Hinton Red Lion – Greene King XX
- Swaffham Prior Red Lion – Batemans Mild
- Willingham Black Bull – Greene King XX
- Willingham Duke of Wellington – Greene King XX
- Conington White Swan – Greene King XX
Regular Outlets
The following Cambridge pubs often have a Mild as a guest beer:- Live and Let Live
- Kingston Arms
- Cambridge Blue
- Carlton
- County Arms
- Elm Tree
- Maypole
- Kingston Arms