Let's Brew - 1879 William Younger No. 2

Of Younger’s four numbered Ales, No. 1 and No. 3 had the most legs, stretching past WW II. No.2 didn’t quite manage such a long run, being discontinued during WW I.

It’s another very simple recipe. It includes two types of pale malt. That’s about all I can say about the malt, as the description is an unreadable squiggle. If you were to hold a gun to my head, I’d guess that some was from foreign barley.

The hops are listed as Spalt, American, Californian and Kent. The quantity of Spalt, however, is so small that I’ve combined it with the Goldings. As in the recipe below, the bulk of the hops were from the USA.

Lasting 8 days, the fermentation was longer than most at Younger. Fairly warm, too, as most of it was in the high 60’s F.

The finished beer looks to be very pale and very bitter. It probably tastes like a modern DIPA.

1879 William Younger No. 2
pale malt	19.50 lb	100.00%
Cluster 90 min	3.50 oz
Cluster 60 min	3.50 oz
Goldings 30 min	1.75 oz
Goldings dry hops	1.50 oz
OG	1084
FG	1035
ABV	6.48
Apparent attenuation	58.33%
IBU	135
SRM	6
Mash at	156º F
Sparge at	165º F
Boil time	90 minutes
pitching temp	55º F
Yeast	WLP028 Edinburgh Ale

This recipe is in my wonderful book, Let's Brew!: