At least that’s what I thought until recently. Then I had a look at some analyses of Truman beers in the interwar period. It pretty soon became obvious what XXX was: their draught Burton. Which makes a lot of sense.
No-one brewed a 5% Mild Ale between the wars. I thought it seemed odd that Truman did. When I saw that the OG of XXX matched that of Truman’s Burton, then it was obvious what was going on. Burton was, after all, a sort of super-strength Mild Ale.
It wasn’t just the odd barrel that was brewed, either. This batch was 95 barrels. The shortest length of the three beers in the parti-gyle – there were 230 barrels of 7 and 194 of XX – but still a decent amount.
The basic recipe is not far from that of the X “Dark” and XX “Dark” parti-gyle above. Other than the lack of caramel. And a lower hopping rate. Which leaves the (calculated) IBUs of XXX lower than the much weaker X “Dark”.
| 1940 Truman XXX | ||
| pale malt | 6.25 lb | 56.82% |
| high dried malt | 2.50 lb | 22.73% |
| crystal malt 60 L | 1.00 lb | 9.09% |
| flaked rice | 0.75 lb | 6.82% |
| No. 3 invert sugar | 0.50 lb | 4.55% |
| Fuggles 90 mins | 0.50 oz | |
| Fuggles 60 mins | 0.50 oz | |
| Goldings 30 mins | 0.50 oz | |
| OG | 1047.5 | |
| FG | 1008 | |
| ABV | 5.23 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 83.16% | |
| IBU | 18 | |
| SRM | 12 | |
| Mash at | 149º F | |
| Sparge at | 160º F | |
| Boil time | 90 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 60.25º F | |
| Yeast | Wyeast 1028 London Ale (Worthington White Shield) | |
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