The weaker of Youngs two Pale Ales looks very much like a post-WW II Ordinary Bitter. And a beer which, in most of the interwar period, would have sold for 5d per pint. Though in 1931 to 1933 would have sold for 6d per pint.
There a few interesting features to the grist. I’ve simplified the base malt, which in the original had three elements: pale malt, PA malt and a small quantity of enzymic malt. PA malt being the best quality pale malt.
Most interesting is the lack of any type of adjunct. Which is unusual. A few other brewers – Whitbread, for example – but that was very much the exception. Most brewers employed an adjunct, usually in the form of flaked maize.
There were three types of hops. East Kent from the 1931 harvest and two types of Kent hops, both from 1930.
| 1932 Youngs PAB | ||
| pale malt | 6.25 lb | 83.33% |
| malt extract | 0.250 lb | 3.33% |
| No. 1 invert sugar | 1.00 lb | 13.33% |
| Fuggles 120 min | 1.00 oz | |
| Fuggles 60 min | 1.00 oz | |
| Goldings 30 min | 1.00 oz | |
| OG | 1036 | |
| FG | 1008 | |
| ABV | 3.70 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 77.78% | |
| IBU | 40 | |
| SRM | 5 | |
| Mash at | 153º F | |
| Sparge at | 174º F | |
| Boil time | 120 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 59º F | |
| Yeast | WLP002 English Ale | |
Excuse my ignorance, but why the higher price from 1931-33? Taxes, supply issues, or something else?
ReplyDeleteIn the US, beer wasn't legal until 1933, but the early years of the Depression were a deflationary period in the US and the pressure on commodities in general was lowering prices. I didn't know prices may have been going differently in the UK, unless beer was a special case.
There was a tax increase between 1931 and 1933 which effectively would have increased the price of a pint by a penny. Except brewers just cut the strength of their beer so they could continue to sell it for the old price.
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