Tax was charged on a “standard barrel” – 36 imperial gallons at 1055º. A weaker or stronger beer was charged at a proportional rate. Thus two barrels of 1027.5º made one standard barrel. But there was a restriction. The minimum rate of tax was the equivalent of a 1027º beer. So if you brewed a beer at 1020º, you paid tax as if it were 1027º. Clearly this was a financially unattractive move. Making 1027º the weakest anyone ever brewed.
The biggest change from the 1943 recipe is the replacement of flaked oats by flaked barley. This was a change once again dictated by the authorities. Breweries had to use a certain proportion of flaked barley whether they wanted to or not.
With two coloured malts, the grist is quite unusual for a Mild. Few contained anything darker than crystal and often not even that.
The hops were exactly the same as in the PA, that is English from the 1942 and 1943 harvests.
| 1944 Adnams XX | ||
| mild malt | 4.00 lb | 66.01% |
| crystal malt 80 L | 0.33 lb | 5.45% |
| amber malt | 0.33 lb | 5.45% |
| flaked barley | 1.00 lb | 16.50% |
| No. 3 invert sugar | 0.33 lb | 5.45% |
| caramel 2000 SRM | 0.07 lb | 1.16% |
| Fuggles 120 mins | 0.50 oz | |
| Fuggles 60 mins | 0.25 oz | |
| Goldings 30 mins | 0.25 oz | |
| OG | 1027 | |
| FG | 1006 | |
| ABV | 2.78 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 77.78% | |
| IBU | 15 | |
| SRM | 16 | |
| Mash at | 148º F | |
| After underlet | 150º F | |
| Sparge at | 165º F | |
| Boil time | 120 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 60º F | |
| Yeast | WLP025 Southwold | |
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