Wednesday 24 April 2019

Let's Brew Wednesday - 1910 Fuller’s X

A stronger, 5% ABV Mild. Loaded with lots of lovely sugar. Yum! From before WW I messed up Mild forever.

The recipe is slightly more complicated than it appears, as the pale malt was an eclectic mix of 50% English, 25% Californian and 25 % Australian. Using grain from all over the world – though it was always malted in the UK – was typical of English beers before WW I.

The sugar is about a 50-50 split between No. 3 invert and something called – think, the handwriting is hard to read – Trintose. Or possibly Tintose. I’ve assumed it’s another dark sugar and have just increased the amount of No. 3.

The hops were Oregon from the 1907 harvest, Mid-Kent from 1909 and East Kent from 1908. I’ve interpreted the latter two as Fuggles and Goldings, respectively.


1910 Fullers X Ale 
pale malt 8.00 lb 73.94%
flaked maize 2.00 lb 18.48%
No. 3 invert sugar 0.75 lb 6.93%
caramel 1000 SRM 0.07 lb 0.65%
Cluster 120 mins 0.25 oz
Fuggles 120 mins 1.00 oz
Goldings 30 mins 1.00 oz
OG 1053
FG 1014.5
ABV 5.09
Apparent attenuation 72.64%
IBU 29
SRM 17
Mash at 149º F
After underlet 153º F
Sparge at 168º F
Boil time 120 minutes
pitching temp 59º F
Yeast Wyeast 1968 London ESB

This is one of the dozens of recipes in my book Mild! plus. Which is avaiable in both paperback:






and hardback formats:

4 comments:

Ed said...

According to the comments in this source: "Trintose" or "Tintose" is some sort of caramel coloring sugar. I apologize for snark and American spelling.

karmseveer said...

Definitely Tintose:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Brewers-Guardian-October-1-1956-Gillman-Spencer-Tintose-Caramel-VG-081016DBE-/391533785065

Ben said...

Hi Ron, love the blog. I've got your book "Home Brewer's Guide to Vintage Beer" and I'm looking at the recipe for March 10th 1910 Fuller's X. It's similar to this one, but the Flaked corn is at .75 lb and the No. 3 invert is at 2.75 pounds. Was it common for the Fuller's brewers at the time to vary the percent of invert/adjunct that much (~20% of the recipe) from batch to batch?

Ron Pattinson said...

Ben,

this recipe is wrong. The invert and maize should be the other way around.