I'm finally back to writing my new book. Travelling to London, photographing at the archive then extracting the information took about two weeks out of my schedule. Research is a very labour-intensive activity.
Next up in strength amongst the Mild Ales remains XX. Though it hasn’t been as lucky as X, losing 2º since 1940.
Though that has partially been offset by an even higher degree of attenuation, leaving the ABV a respectable 3.77%. So at least it retained a reasonable amount of poke.
I’m pretty sure that this is really the pale version of XX. I’m not totally sure why they maintained the differentiation in the Brewhouse between the pale and dark versions of X and XX. Mostly they look exactly the same. The difference I assume, coming at racking time with different primings or simply an addition of caramel.
There’s been a massive reduction in the hopping rate, from 7 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) to 3.5 lbs. Unsurprisingly, the result has been a halving of the (calculated) IBUs.
For further recipe notes, see the X above, with which this was parti-gyled.
| 1941 Truman XX | ||
| pale malt | 4.50 lb | 59.68% |
| high dried malt | 2.00 lb | 26.53% |
| crystal malt 60 L | 0.50 lb | 6.63% |
| black malt | 0.04 lb | 0.53% |
| No. 3 invert sugar | 0.50 lb | 6.63% |
| Fuggles 90 mins | 0.33 oz | |
| Fuggles 60 mins | 0.33 oz | |
| Goldings 30 mins | 0.25 oz | |
| OG | 1032.5 | |
| FG | 1004 | |
| ABV | 3.77 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 87.69% | |
| IBU | 12 | |
| SRM | 10 | |
| Mash at | 147º F | |
| Sparge at | 160º F | |
| Boil time | 90 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 62º F | |
| Yeast | Wyeast 1028 London Ale (Worthington White Shield) | |
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