You may remember (if your memory id better than mine) that I posted about this Oat Mild a week or so ago. It looked so fabulicious I asked Kristen to knock up the recipe. It's an example of a brewery following government directives to use oats as a barley malt substitute.
Though it was officially called XX it's really a 4d Ale, a type of beer with its origins in the low-gravity Government Ale of the final years of WW I. You could certainly session such beers. To be honest, you could probably knock back a couple of pints an hour of this stuff and never get properly pissed.
One point. The colour was darker than Kristen lists below. It's a bit tricky to convert the colour scale Whitbread used at this time, but I reckon it's the equivalent of around 90 EBC.
Now over to Kristen for all the brewy-type details . . . . .
Whitbread - 1943 - Oat Mild | |||||||||
General info: Oat mild...WTH is an oat mild!? Ok, its not REALLY an oat mild. However this is one of the first instances where oats become a major part of the grist of any of ‘ beers. 1943 was not a good year for supply of regular ingredients; Something about a one-balled, tooth brush mustachioed megalomaniac from the east. All in all, a very low gravity neat little 'mild' that teaches us about the lengths people went to still get beer on the table. | |||||||||
Beer Specifics | Recipe by percentages | ||||||||
Gravity (OG) | 1.028 | 10.2% American 6-row | 1.9% Cane Sugar | ||||||
Gravity (FG) | 1.008 | 61.1% Mild Malt | 6% No3 Invert | ||||||
ABV | 2.67% | 12.4% Flaked oats | |||||||
Apparent attenuation | 71.43% | 8.5% Crystal 75L | |||||||
Real attenuation | 58.51% | ||||||||
IBU | 11.0 | Mash | 60min@157°F | 0.88qt/lb | |||||
SRM | 9.0 | 60min@69.4°C | 1.84L/kg | ||||||
EBC | 23.5 | ||||||||
Boil | 60 min | ||||||||
Homebrew @ 70% | Craft @ 80% | ||||||||
Grist | 5gal | 19L | 10bbl | 10hl | |||||
American 6-row | 0.56 | lb | 0.255 | kg | 30.2 | lb | 11.67 | kg | |
Mild Malt | 3.34 | lb | 1.521 | kg | 181.21 | lb | 70.01 | kg | |
Flaked oats | 0.68 | lb | 0.310 | kg | 36.67 | lb | 14.17 | kg | |
Crystal 75L | 0.46 | lb | 0.209 | kg | 25.07 | lb | 9.69 | kg | |
Cane Sugar | 0.10 | lb | 0.046 | kg | 5.59 | lb | 2.16 | kg | |
No3 Invert | 0.33 | lb | 0.150 | kg | 17.9 | lb | 6.92 | kg | |
Hops | |||||||||
Goldings 4.5% 60min | 0.57 | oz | 16.2 | g | 35.43 | oz | 0.856 | kg | |
Fermentation | 62°F /16.7°C | ||||||||
Yeast | Safale S04 | ||||||||
WLP007 Dry English ale | |||||||||
Wyeast 1099 Whitbred ale | |||||||||
Tasting Notes: Raw bread dough, porrage and lightly toasted bread. Hints of figs, plums and a rummy raisin note in the end. Very smooth and mouthfilling which finishs quite dry. Very refreshing and easy to drink, tastes no where near as smal as it is. | |||||||||
11 comments:
Errrr - you're a century out in your header, mate …
How would the oats have been mashed? Cooked before mashing or straight into the mash?
Tim, flaked oats were mashed along with the other grains. details will follow in a later post.
What's the advantage of party-gyling to end up with four worts at exactly the same gravity?
4 gyles of different strengths were blended to make a single beer that was fermented in 4 tuns.
Beers were very rarely a single gyle. Usually they were two or three. It's just the way they brewed.
I might be coming in a little late here, but this is I think the second mild recipe I've seen that uses a portion of American 6-row. Was this to add some husk material since the oats were lacking? I don't recall the last recipe having any adjuncts. I think that was a pale mild at 1.050 OG.
Seanywonton, pretty much everything brewed in Britain in the 20th century contained American 6-row. It was all about nitrogen content.
In reading some of your more recent recipes it looks like you are going with crystal 120L instead of 75L. Would you make that switch here?
Chris,
it's impossible to say. It's not recorded in the log. It can only ever be a guess which type of crystal is right.
Brewed this for a thematic event on British beers here in Brazil.
Good malt profile (used Muntons for Mild and Crystal). Definitely looks bigger.
Not as dark as I expected. Here's a picture:
http://cervejadeapartamento.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/mild.jpg
Cheers!
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