Let's Brew Wednesday - 1932 Lorimer & Clark XXP 6

Had enough of watery Scottish Pale Ales? I thought so. But I’m going to publish another one anyway.

If only because this makes this week that little bit easier. I already have the recipe lying around and all I need to do is wrap a little bollocks around it and I’m done. No real work or effort required. Which is just how I like things.

I though a quick comparison with some similar-strength English Pale Ales might be instructive. So I had a quick look in my mega table of analyses. And could find bugger all. I’ve only got 7 English Pale Ales that have a gravity even vaguely similar. And two of them are the same beer. It was hard to find anything English under 1040º. Though I did find some other Scottish Pales Ales around 1030º. Obviously a Scottish thing.

All but one of the English beers is in bottled format. They look to me as if they were probably sold as Light Ale or Light Dinner Ale. To makes things even more confusing, the Whitbread beer is their IPA.

XXP 6 isn’t even Lorimer & Clarke’s weakest Pale Ale. There’s also XXP 5, weighing in at a mighty 1027º.

Low-gravity English Pale Ales in 1932
Brewer	Beer	Price	package	OG	FG	ABV	App. Atten-uation
Ind Coope	Pale Ale	12d	draught	1035.3
John Smith	Dinner Ale		bottled	1036	1010.8	3.26	70.00%
Northampton Brewery	Pale Ale	11d	bottled	1032	1007.2	3.22	77.50%
Taylor Walker	Pale Ale	8d	bottled	1031	1007.8	3.01	74.84%
Taylor Walker	Pale Ale	8d	bottled	1032	1007.4	3.19	76.88%
Truman	Sparkling Ale	7d	bottled	1029	1006.4	2.93	77.93%
Whitbread	Pale Ale		bottled	1034	1008	3.37	76.47%
Source:
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001.
Thomas Usher Gravity Book document TU/6/11

As for the recipe, note the high proportion of dry hops. All their Pale Ales got the same dose of dry hops, no matter what the strength of the beer. In such a light beer, I guess they were going to be pretty noticeable.
Everything else is just like the XXP 7 and 8. Just in slightly smaller amounts.

1932 Lorimer & Clark XXP 5
pale malt	4.50 lb	78.26%
flaked barley	0.75 lb	13.04%
malt extract	0.25 lb	4.35%
No. 2 invert sugar	0.25 lb	4.35%
Fuggles 90 min	0.50 oz
Fuggles 60 min	0.50 oz
Goldings 30 min	0.25 oz
Goldings dry hops	0.50 oz
OG	1027
FG	1007
ABV	2.65
Apparent attenuation	74.07%
IBU	20
SRM	4
Mash at	154º F
Sparge at	160º F
Boil time	90 minutes
pitching temp	62.5º F
Yeast	WLP028 Edinburgh Ale