Let’s Brew Wednesday - 1919 Tetley F

A final Mild recipe for Mild Month. OK, it’s one day into June, but I couldn’t resist.

Especially as it’s another Tetley recipe. F, which I’m pretty sure stands for Family Ale. A bottled beer I remember from my time living in Leeds. In those days it looked very much like a bottled version of their Mild.

This one is an, er, interesting recipe. With grits making up 25% of the fermentables. Plus a tiny little bit of chocolate malt. And South American sugar. “Peru” is how it’s described. That’s another 18% of the grist. Making it pretty low on malt. Sure it tastes lovely, mind. It is a Tetley beer, after all.

When this was brewed, 30th October 1919, it would have counted as a 5d beer:

Price control 1917-1921
	Oct 1917	Apr 1918	Feb 1919	Jul 1919	Apr 1920
2d				<1019 td="">
3d			<1023 td="">	1020-1026	<1019 td="">
4d	<1036 td="">	<1030 td="">	1023-1028	1027-1032	1020-1026
5d	1036-1042	1030-1034	1029-1034	1033-1038	1027-1032
6d			1035-1041	1039-1045	1033-1038
7d			1042-1049	1045-1053	1039-1045
8d			>1050	>1054	1045-1053
9d					>1054
Sources:
The Brewers' Almanack 1928 pages 100 - 101.
"The British Brewing Industry 1830-1980"

F was parti-gyled with X at 1027.1 and X1 at 1041.3, meaning they were 4d and 6d beers, respectively.

Tetley continued to brew F up to 1940. It always had a gravity of around 1034.

1919 Tetley F
pale malt	1.50 lb	21.74%
mild malt	2.25 lb	32.61%
chocolate Malt	0.15 lb	2.17%
grits	1.75 lb	25.36%
demerera sugar	1.25 lb	18.12%
Cluster 90 mins	0.50 oz
Fuggles 30 mins	0.75 oz
OG	1033.8
FG	1010.2
ABV	3.12
Apparent attenuation	69.82%
IBU	21
SRM	7
Mash at	151º F
Sparge at	165º F
Boil time	90 minutes
pitching temp	65º F
Yeast	Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire Ale Timothy Taylor