Let's Brew Wednesday - 1885 William Younger S1 Stout

Continuing with the Younger's festival, here’s the stronger version of Sweet Stout, S1. Which has a more typical Stout gravity. But is still very sweet.

The degree of attenuation is even worse than for S2, at a good bit below 50%. All those residual sugars, along with the light hopping, must have resulted in a very sweet beer. I assume it must have been sold pretty soon after racking, as with all that sugar it can’t have been very stable.

Which leads onto the question: was this a draught or bottled beer? It was mostly racked into barrels and kilderkins, which implies to me that it was going to be sold on draught. But I could be wrong.

The grist is a bit more complicated than for S2. With a small percentage of glucose. And rather more black malt. Leaving the colour extremely dark.

The hops were the same as in S2: American from the 1884 and 1885 harvests, Kent from 1884 and Bohemian from 1885.

Definitely no ageing for this Stout. 

1885 William Younger S1 Stout
pale malt	14.50 lb	85.29%
black malt	1.75 lb	10.29%
glucose	0.75 lb	4.41%
Cluster 120 min	0.50 oz
Cluster 60 min	0.50 oz
Fuggles 30 min	0.25 oz
Saaz 30 min	0.25 oz
OG	1073
FG	1041
ABV	4.23
Apparent attenuation	43.84%
IBU	22
SRM	42
Mash at	151º F
Sparge at	163º F
Boil time	120 minutes
pitching temp	57º F
Yeast	WLP028 Edinburgh Ale