Tuesday 9 October 2018

Fullers AK 1925 - 1939

Just remembered that I hadn't posted the later years of Fullers AK. Been too busy gadding about and book writing. Recipe writing mostly. Such fun.

Just like AK. A topic of which I never tire. And keep returning to. I've amassed quite a collection of AKs from different breweries. It's fun to compare them. Which I may do properly, should arsing and my schedule allow.

If I'm honest, it's a pretty dull table. Not a lot was going on in terms of gravity or ABV. Or the level of hopping, for that matter. There's really not a lot I can say about any of it. A whole eload of nothing going on.

Oh, I know what I cant tell you: what happened to Fullers AK during WW II? The gravity dropped to 1028.4º in June 1941 nad soon after that, it disappeared forever. The old death by nowhere lower for the OG to go. Another slightly stronger Bitter got the chap, too. Only the strongest, PA, survived. Though, by the end of the war, its gravity wasn't much higher than this AK. Just 1034.6º.

Why don't I have the later AKs in the table? Because I haven't extracted the information from Fullers wartime records yet. I've still loads of brewing records unprocessed. Ones relevant to my current project get priority.

Will the grist be more exciting? I wouldn't get your hopes up.


Fullers AK 1925 - 1939
Date Year OG FG ABV App. Atten-uation lbs hops/ qtr hops lb/brl
17th Jun 1925 1032.2 1006.9 3.35 78.52% 10.4639 1.20
22nd Apr 1931 1032.3 1006.1 3.46 81.12% 9.85378 1.27
2nd Mar 1932 1032.5 1008.0 3.24 75.28% 9.90677 1.31
25th Jun 1935 1033.4 1006.4 3.58 80.93% 9.15159 1.44
31st Aug 1937 1033.7 1007.2 3.50 78.62% 9.51513 1.25
4th Jan 1938 1033.7 1005.5 3.72 83.54% 9.31636 1.28
24th Oct 1939 1033.4 1006.6 3.53 80.07% 9.19208 1.25
Source:
Fullers brewing records held at the brewery

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