The brewing records have also got more detailed. Thankfully. Though they still aren’t perfect. It’s still pretty vague about the type of sugar used and there’s something simply called colour. I’m guessing that’s a type of caramel. And this time I’ve gone for No. 3 invert sugar. For no particular reason other than that I think this beer is darkish.
At least there are more details about the hops. They’re from Worcester, Kent and Burgundy. To be honest, I’ve no idea what type of hops came from the latter. And, as the amount of them was quite small, just 15 of the 105 pounds, I’ve gone for 100% Fuggles. But Goldings or a combination of Goldings and Fuggles would be fine, too.
The gravity has dropped a few points, but not a huge amount. No FG is specified, so that’s a guess again. Based on the first FG that I have for Tally Ho, which is from 1913. That’s the beer we’ll be looking at next.
| 1890 Adnams Tally Ho | ||
| pale malt | 12.50 lb | 75.35% |
| No. 3 invert sugar | 4.00 lb | 24.11% |
| caramel 1000 SRM | 0.09 lb | 0.54% |
| Fuggles 120 mins | 3.00 oz | |
| Fuggles 60 mins | 3.00 oz | |
| Fuggles 30 mins | 3.00 oz | |
| OG | 1086 | |
| FG | 1026 | |
| ABV | 7.94 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 69.77% | |
| IBU | 84 | |
| SRM | 25 | |
| Mash at | 150º F | |
| Sparge at | 175º F | |
| Boil time | 120 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 57º F | |
| Yeast | WLP025 Southwold | |
Interesting paper from 1898 that mentions hops from Burgundy. They are likely higher in essential oils than the English hops.
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Ron
ReplyDeleteI think you may have solved a minor problem of mine. I have done 49 brews on the Braumeister and was looking for something special for the number 50. Tally Ho it is! a beer I have sampled a few times in the Lord Nelson in Southwold.
Cheers
Do you think either of these 2 Tally Hos was bottled? If so, it might explain why they had names versus standard brewery terms to describe them.....
ReplyDeleteDo the records ever contain comments on the beer? Such as "wow, this turned out great" or "hop flavor not as strong as hoped for" or anything else?
ReplyDeleteDo you have a sense of how people drank a beer that is pretty big and heavily hopped by today's standards? Was it the kind of thing you might drink just one or two on a special occasion, or was it something many drank regularly in volume?
Mark Linsner,
ReplyDeleteit might have been bottled. But in 1890 bottled beer was a minority thing. Especially as a small provincial brewer like Adnams.
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteyes, there are sometimes comments like that.
It's probably a beer people would finish the night with. I doubt anyone sessioned it.
Ron,I sent you pictures of Adnams 1891 and 1893 calendars. Both have an inn called the Tally Ho. Could the beer be named after one of their pubs?
ReplyDeleteHi Ron ,
ReplyDelete"Burgundy" hops were probably a variety called Tardif De Bourgogne , which were a reasonably well regarded, relatively low alpha hop , somewhere around about 2.8 % - 3.2 % (Guess), and would have been a key part of the hop charging ,
Best Regards ,
Edd