Cannon (Ramsgate) ingredients in 1893-1894

Time to look at the grists. This bit is going to be easy. As all of Cannon’s beers only contained base malt. Usually, this was pale malt. Though sometimes AK had 50% pale malt and 50% mild malt.

The hops are slightly more complicated. Though not that much. 

The two cheapest beers, T and X, used a combination of East Kent and Californian hops, Both from the 1891 harvest. That is, a couple of years old. The use of older hops isn’t particularly unusual. Neither of these beers were dry-hopped.

The more expensive XXX and KKK only had a single type of copper hop. East Kent hops, in these cases from the most recent season. Again, pretty normal. Dry hops were fresh Worcesters.

Similar hopping was used in the two Pale Ales. Though, this time there were two types of copper hops: East Kent from 1892 and Worcester from 1893. The latter were also used as the dry hops. 

Cannon (Ramsgate) hops in 1893-1894
Beer	Style	hop 1	hop 2	dry hops
T	Table	EK 1891	Californian 1891
X	Mild	EK 1891	Californian 1891
XXX	Mild	EK 1892		Wor 1893
KKK	Old Ale	EK 1893		Wor 1893
AK 10d	Pale Ale	EK 1892	Wor 1893	Wor 1893
KK	Pale Ale	EK 1892	Wor 1893	Wor 1893
Source:
Cannon Brewery (Ramsgate) brewing record held at the Kent Archives, document number R/U7/B6.