You’ll be pleased to hear that we’re leaving watery beers aside for a . . . slightly less watery beer. One with all the punch of an Ordinary Bitter. Let’s face, this is pretty much the same beer as BB. Just a little bit stronger. It’s a weird world, the late 1940’s. Where a brewery might have four or five beers under 1033º.
I’m going to struggle to draw this out over 100 words. Er, pretty boring grist: pale malt, the obligatory flaked barley and a touch of malt extract. Again, around half of the hops look as if they’ve come from Shepherd Neame’s own hop garden.
Just a slightly stronger version of the BB. That’s it really. Just about done with Shep’s 1947 beer range. Just one to go: LDA. Guess what that is. Go on. Not got it? A waterier version of BA. Hard to believe that a beer of 1034º could be a brewery’s strongest. But it’s true. BA was the strongest beer Shep’s brewed in 1947. Happy days? I don’t think so.
| 1947 Shepherd Neame BA | ||
| pale malt | 6.50 lb | 80.55% |
| flaked barley | 1.50 lb | 18.59% |
| malt extract | 0.07 lb | 0.87% |
| Fuggles 120 mins | 0.75 oz | |
| Goldings 30 mins | 0.75 oz | |
| Goldings dry hops | 0.25 oz | |
| OG | 1034.3 | |
| FG | 1006.1 | |
| ABV | 3.73 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 82.22% | |
| IBU | 22 | |
| SRM | 3 | |
| Mash at | 151º F | |
| Sparge at | 170º F | |
| Boil time | 120 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 63º F | |
| Yeast | a Southern English Ale yeast | |
Ron,
ReplyDeletewhen I lived in Kent in the early '80s, the strongest draught beer in a SN pub was the lager, og 1046, I think.
At a time when most pub lager was a miserable strength, this could be a problem!
I don't suppose the recipe for that is in there? I doubt if you will find it under the names that we called it - "Faversham frosty", "The yellow peril"!
Mike
Ahh, that will be Hürlimann (aka Hooligan).
ReplyDeleteGleefully necked by Men of Kent and Kentish Men in all good hostelries.
Happy days.