Wednesday 8 August 2018

Let's Brew Wednesday - 1959 Fullers Nourishing Stout

It wasn’t until the late 1950s that Fullers finally got around to changing P to NS in the brewhouse. Even though the beer had been marketed as Nourishing Stout for more than a decade.

It was unusual in being the only beer in Fullers range that wasn’t parti-gyled. Which probably made it quite uneconomical to brew. It was produced in batches of a little over 100 barrels in a brewhouse with a normal brew length of 300-500 barrels. 100 barrels was probably about the minimum amount the equipment could cope with.

The recipe hasn’t changed a great deal since 1949. There are still three malts: pale, black and crystal.  The sugars remain PEX (for which I’ve substituted No. 2 invert), Special Dark (No. 4 invert) and two types of caramel: London caramel and Carmeline.

From Whitbread Gravity Book analyses for Nourishing Stout, I can see that it wasn’t tinkered with after primary fermentation. Some breweries added lactose at racking time.

The hops were Worcester Fuggles from the 1958 crop and Goldings varieties from 1957.

1959 Fullers Nourishing Stout
pale malt 3.00 lb 44.44%
black malt 0.75 lb 11.11%
crystal malt 60 L 0.50 lb 7.41%
flaked maize 0.50 lb 7.41%
No. 2 invert 0.250 lb 3.70%
No. 4 invert 1.250 lb 18.52%
caramel 2000 SRM 0.50 lb 7.41%
Fuggles 90 min 0.75 oz
Fuggles 30 min 0.50 oz
Goldings Varieties 30 min 0.25 oz
OG 1031.5
FG 1011.5
ABV 2.65
Apparent attenuation 63.49%
IBU 22
SRM 54
Mash at 145º F
Sparge at 170º F
Boil time 90 minutes
pitching temp 61º F
Yeast WLP002 English Ale

This recipe appear in my new wonderful book about brewing after WW II:

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/austerity/23181344




1 comment:

Lee said...

Bugger me Ron! That is right uo there with the least amounts of base malt ever used.