First came the disastrous Snowden emergency budget in September 1931. It prompted most breweries to cut the gravities of their beers so that could still be sold at the pre-budget price. Barclay Perkins dropped the OG of X to 1037º, but at the same time introduced XX at the old X gravity. WW II then forced the strength of X down further.
As a result of the gravity cuts, X looks very much like a typical post-war Mild at 3% ABV.
Other than the adjuncts employed, the grist isn’t much different from in previous years. The backbone remains: base malt, amber malt and crystal malt. Though the base malts did consist of various combinations of pale, mild and SA malt.
The colour mostly came from No. 3 invert and caramel. Which is pretty typical for Mild Ales.
The hops were Kent Fuggles from the 1941 and 1943 harvests, plus Mid-Kent Fuggles from 1943.
| 1944 Barclay Perkins X | ||
| mild malt | 5.00 lb | 70.03% |
| crystal malt 60 L | 0.33 lb | 4.62% |
| amber malt | 0.50 lb | 7.00% |
| flaked barley | 0.50 lb | 7.00% |
| No. 3 invert sugar | 0.75 lb | 10.50% |
| caramel 1000 SRM | 0.06 lb | 0.84% |
| Fuggles 90 mins | 0.25 oz | |
| Fuggles 60 mins | 0.25 oz | |
| Fuggles 30 mins | 0.25 oz | |
| OG | 1032 | |
| FG | 1009 | |
| ABV | 3.04 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 71.88% | |
| IBU | 20 | |
| SRM | 13 | |
| Mash at | 144º F | |
| After underlet | 150º F | |
| Sparge at | 165º F | |
| Boil time | 90 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 61º F | |
| Yeast | Wyeast 1099 Whitbread ale | |
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