And when I can combine the records with my post-war austerity obsession, I’m like a pig on a spit. No, pig in shit, that’s what I meant. (That image of me roasting a spit will now live with me forever.) Throw in a lovely watery Mild recipe and paradise is adjacent.
For the day, it’s a pretty honest recipe. Just pale malt, brewing sugar and malt extract. Plus the obligatory flaked barley of the late war years.
The sugar bill is slightly simplified. There was a bit of something that looked like WWCS. I just bumped up the No. 3.
| 1947 Shepherd Neame MB | ||
| pale malt | 3.25 lb | 59.09% |
| flaked barley | 0.75 lb | 13.64% |
| no. 3 sugar | 0.75 lb | 13.64% |
| malt extract | 0.75 lb | 13.64% |
| Fuggles 120 mins | 0.50 oz | |
| Goldings 30 mins | 0.50 oz | |
| OG | 1027.1 | |
| FG | 1005.5 | |
| ABV | 2.86 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 79.70% | |
| IBU | 15 | |
| SRM | 9 | |
| Mash at | 156º F | |
| Sparge at | 170º F | |
| Boil time | 120 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 63º F | |
| Yeast | Go to a Shepherd Neame pub, buy a pint of cask beer. If it's nice and fresh, buy another pint and surreptitiously pour it into a bottle, add a half teaspoon of sugar and wait 3 days. Carefully decant most of the beer into a glass and drink. Add malt extract and leave in a warm place for a few days. | |
| Or just use a Southern English Ale yeast | ||
Lots more to come.
Ohhhhh the nostagia.
ReplyDeleteI too can remember supping SN beer.
Down on the Shropshire Union Canal.
Only beer memories can make me homesick.
Any chance you have a recipe for Bishop's Finger?
ReplyDeleteAlistair,
ReplyDeletefunny you should ask that.
St Austell yeast came from Sheps so you could culture it up from a bottle of Proper Job.
ReplyDeleteRon,
ReplyDeleteVery excited about what you've found in Shepherd Neame brewing records. Thanks for putting this out. Will be brewing one of these soon, for sure.
We've tried brewing their beers many times, because they are hard to find and expensive Stateside. Never did get very close on the flavour, though, probably because we never had the correct yeast. It's frustrating because beers from Marstons, Fullers and Timothy Taylor, for example, we were able to nail with what we had to work with.
A friend (who doesn't like UK beer, so not much of a friend really) described the flavour we were failing to achieve as "tanniny," and "like tea." I guess that's not a bad way to describe it. Still, I wish we could close in on it a bit more...
Cheers!
What brew length is that recipe for?
ReplyDeleteIf that ingredients list is for 20pts then you'd probably have a lovely brew.
StuartP,
ReplyDelete5 UK 6 US gallons.
For the yeast, you could try culturing it up from a bottle of SN 1698.
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