The grist hasn’t really changed a great deal since 1914. It’s still a simple combination of pale malt and invert sugar. I’m assuming again the latter was No. 3 invert, though the type isn’t specified in the brewing record.
The malt is rather more complicated than it at first appears. There were no fewer than six types of pale malt: three from UK-grown barley, plus one each from Smyrna, Indian and Californian.
One change is in the hopping. The rate has fallen from 6 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt to 5 lbs. In addition, the hops used are all older. They’re all Mid-Kent from the year 1914. The combined effect is to reduce the (calculated) IBUs from 32 to 18. Drinkers must have noticed such a big change, especially as in took place over a short period.
A higher rate of attenuation means that the ABV has increased from 5.03% in 1914 to 5.4%. Which is pretty beefy for a Mild.
| 1916 Whitbread X | ||
| pale malt | 10.25 lb | 93.18% |
| No. 3 invert sugar | 0.75 lb | 6.82% |
| Fuggles 105 mins | 0.50 oz | |
| Fuggles 60 mins | 0.50 oz | |
| Fuggles 30 mins | 0.50 oz | |
| OG | 1051 | |
| FG | 1010 | |
| ABV | 5.42 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 80.39% | |
| IBU | 18 | |
| SRM | 9 | |
| Mash at | 150º F | |
| Sparge at | 168º F | |
| Boil time | 105 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 60º F | |
| Yeast | Wyeast 1099 Whitbread Ale | |
This is one of the dozens of recipes in my book Mild! plus. Which is avaiable in both paperback:
and hardback formats:
This is the same post as last Saturday.
ReplyDeleteBacon,
ReplyDeletelook more closely: this id for the 1916 version of X Ale.
Now I'm thoroughly confused. I am 100% confident that the posts were identical when I posted that comment, at least that's what showed up in my browser. The only thing that differed was the illustration.
ReplyDeleteNow I see two different posts.
The reason I'm confident it was the same post was that when I started reading it, I thought to myself "I've read this text before", so I went back to Saturday's post and checked, and sure enough, it was the exact same content. I know I noted that there should probably have been a "couldn't" between "just" and "always" in the sentence "They just always be bothered to note it down". I triple-checked before posting the comment, just to make sure not to make a fool of myself.
Maybe it's just my browser's cache acting up. Or could Blogger be playing tricks on us?
Bacon,
ReplyDeletejust me joshing. I originally put up the wrong post.