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Sunday, 21 December 2025

1897 Fremlin Pilsener mashing scheme

A Fremlin's Lager label with an elephant and a coat of arms.
Fremlin was lightly unusual for a largish regional brewery in brewing a Pilsener. 

Now, I wouldn't call it exactly a 100% authentic Lager. As it was brewed from pale rather than lager malt. They did, however, use Carlsberg yeast. Meaning it was properly bottom-fermented.

There was also authenticity in the mashing scheme, which was a double decoction. In which there were two boils of half the mash. This was a simplification of their mashing scheme from a few years earlier, where there were three boils, each of a third of the mash.

Here are the full details of the process. 

1897 Fremlin Pilsener mashing scheme
barrels temp. mash temp.
9 cold  
3.5 210º F 95º F
1/2 boiled   135º F
1/2 boiled   165º F
5 170º F  
6 170º F  
6 170º F  
Source:
Fremlin brewing record held at the Kent Archives, document number U3555/2/F/Bx2/1/22.

 

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