Fullers grists in 1939

The grists, in terms of malts, weren’t exactly exciting. Other than P, all Fullers beers contained just a single malt. Though, at this point, there were three types of pale malt: English, Californian and Cape.

Even P only contained one coloured malt, black malt. This was pretty unusual for London, where brewers were very faithful to brown malt. Whitbread, for example, including brown malt in their Stouts right up until Chiswell Street closed in 1974. Fullers dropped it in the early 1920s.

The only other grain Fullers used was unmalted flaked maize. Which was the commonest adjunct in UK brewing. A few breweries used maize in the form of grits and some preferred flaked rice, but generally flaked maize was the adjunct of choice.

There was rather more variety in the sugars Fullers employed. Glucose and Intense in the Milds and Burtons; No. 2 invert, glucose and intense in the Pale Ales. While P contained two types of caramel and another coloured sugar called Special Dark.

Other than in P, the sugar content was quite low at under 5% of the grist. 10-15% was more typical. The lack of No. 3 invert in the Milds and burtons is surprising. It was pretty standard in dark Ales by this point.

Fullers grists in 1939 (grains)
Date	Beer	Style	OG	pale malt	black malt	flaked maize
30th Oct	X	Mild	1032.7	80.46%		14.78%
6th Nov	XX	Mild	1042.7	80.85%		13.94%
24th Oct	AK	Pale Ale	1033.4	81.33%		14.79%
17th Oct	XK	Pale Ale	1039.4	82.64%		14.58%
24th Oct	PA	Pale Ale	1051.1	81.33%		14.79%
9th Nov	P	Porter	1038.5	66.93%	8.37%	8.37%
18th Oct	BO	Strong Ale	1055.5	81.66%		13.87%
8th Nov	OBE	Strong Ale	1069.6	81.00%		14.44%
Source:
Fullers brewing records held at the brewery

Fullers grists in 1939 (sugars)
Date	Beer	Style	OG	no. 2 sugar	glucose	carameline	London caramel	Sp. Dark	Intense
30th Oct	X	Mild	1032.7		3.28%				1.48%
6th Nov	XX	Mild	1042.7		3.72%				1.50%
24th Oct	AK	Pale Ale	1033.4	2.46%	1.23%				0.18%
17th Oct	XK	Pale Ale	1039.4	1.30%	1.30%				0.19%
24th Oct	PA	Pale Ale	1051.1	2.46%	1.23%				0.18%
9th Nov	P	Porter	1038.5			2.79%	2.39%	11.16%
18th Oct	BO	Strong Ale	1055.5		3.08%				1.39%
8th Nov	OBE	Strong Ale	1069.6		3.35%				1.21%
Source:
Fullers brewing records held at the brewery