Thursday 28 October 2010

Courage Strong Ale 1914 - 1917

We've just about done with Courage's beers during WW I. Just the Strong Ale to go. Isn't that a relief?

Let's kick off with the table:


Courage Strong Ale 1914 -1917
Date
Year
Beer
Style
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl
boil time (hours)
boil time (hours)
boil time (hours)
Pitch temp
dry hops (oz / barrel)
pale malt
black malt
no. 3 sugar
other sugar
I.M. Co.
total
22nd Oct
1914
XX
Strong Ale
1079.22
1033.24
6.08
58.04%
10.00
3.07
2
2.5
1
60º
8.00
67.16%


14.93%
17.91%
100.00%
4th Mar
1915
XX
Strong Ale
1079.22
1033.24
6.08
58.04%
11.00
3.53
2
2.5
1
60º
8.00
67.16%


14.93%
17.91%
100.00%
5th Oct
1915
KK
Strong Ale
1076.18
1017.73
7.73
76.73%
10.00
3.10
2
2.5
1
60º

85.07%


14.93%

100.00%
19th Oct
1915
KK
Strong Ale
1076.18
1016.62
7.88
78.18%
10.00
3.10
2
2
1
60º

85.07%


14.93%

100.00%
5th Jul
1916
KK
Strong Ale
1076.18
1027.70
6.41
63.64%
11.00
3.42
2
2
1
60º

85.07%


14.93%

100.00%
4th Jan
1917
KK
Strong Ale
1075.34
1027.42
6.34
63.60%
11.51
3.54
2
2
1
60º
8.05
83.95%
1.33%
14.73%


100.00%
18th Oct
1917
KK
Strong Ale
1072.57
1023.82
6.45
67.18%
12.66
3.63
2
2
1
59º
8.44
83.58%
1.76%
14.66%


100.00%
Source:
Documents held in the Courage Archives and the London Metropolitan Archives: ACC/2305/08/247, ACC/2305/08/248, ACC/2305/08/249



Wondering why there's not much of a cut in the gravity? That's because they discontinued the beer just as the draconian hacking started.

The grists aren't the miost exciting I've ever seen. Pale malt and sugar. With a dash of black malt in 1917. Oh, and I.M. Co (or is it IM C?), whatever that is. Some type of malt, that's for sure. It crops up in Truman's Burton logs, too. Not the foggiest idea what it is.  Any suggestions are welcome.

1 comment:

Gary Gillman said...

I'll take on the challenge, and suggest Imperial Malt:

http://books.google.com/books?id=TikBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA162&dq=imperial+malt&hl=en&ei=3mbJTK-8DZOgnQfNkcjzDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepag

IM could have meant that, with C meaning colouring, which seems the vocation of the malt based on other comments of Stopes. He brackets amber, crystal and Imperial in his no. II classification of malts, stating that all these have replaced porter or blown malts.

Gary