(Cambridge, MA) – The Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project is set to come out with its first series of limited release beers.

The label on the first beer in the series, “Pretty Things February 27th, 1832 Mild Ale,” calls the Once Upon a Time Series “style-confounding beers from the oh-so credible past.” Needless to say, the brewery plans to use recipes from historical beers for this series.

From the Pretty Things blog, “Partnering to make a beer with friend Ron Pattinson was just the ticket. If you’re not familiar Ron is the extremely prolific author of Shut Up Barclay Perkins, and based out of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Last September we met up with him and asked if he had any particularly style-twisting beers from the past (something Ron seems to specialize in). And in no time we had a brewsheet from February 27th, 1832. This is a beer that was brewed in a brewery on Brick Lane, London, which we had coincidentally walked past two days earlier and photographed.”

Here’s the back label:

“Once upon a time, on Monday February 27th, 1832, a brewer stepped into the Black Eagle brewhouse, Brick Lane, London, and brewed a beer that confounds expectations many years later. A mild ale at 10% alcohol, with more hops than most modern American “India Pale Ales.”

Thanks to the unique research of brewing historia Ron Pattinson, we can reproduce this moment in time from the original brewday document. This beer is brewed with mild ale malt and Kent Golding leaf hops: a simple but surprising beer.

In Dickensian London, “mild” ales weren’t necessarily the watery dark beers we know today. The term “mild” indicated that the beer was sold young, rather than aged. So here you will find a young and hoppy beer from the past.

This is the first historical reenactment from Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project. From the reign of William IV, before Big Ben and Tower Bridge were built. From a London of great wealth and poverty, where beer was brewed in huge quantities as an alternative to the untreated and filthy waters of the Thames.

We dedicate this beer to the unknown brewer who first made it.”

The brewery will kick off this first beer with a party on February 27th at Deep Ellum from 3-6pm in Allston, MA (accessible from Boston via subway): “Join Dann, Martha and the great folks of Deep Ellum for this Dickensian-themed launch for our new beer project.” The date of the event is 178 years to the day the beer was originally brewed. I would expect 22 oz. bottles to be released somewhere around that timeframe.