Saturday, 22 October 2022

Let's Brew - 1885 William Younger XXX

Inevitably, we now come to XXX. Which looks quite similar to 100/-, but let’s not think too much about that.

No frills was definitely Younger’s theme when it came to grists. Just pale malt again. Oh, and 6 Flgs patent malt. Whatever amount that might be. Pale malt from three types of barley, two foreign, one English, I think. The photo is a little blurry and the malt types are in tiny writing.

Later in the same day, another brew had no patent. Zero Flgs. I should have done the recipe for that beer, shouldn’t I? It’s the same in every other respect. Let’s just imagine this was gyle 301 rather than 295. That will make life simpler for everyone.

Loads of different hops to compensate for the lack of variety in the malt. Six in all: American from the 1884 and 1885 harvests, Californian from 1884, Württemberg from 1885, Bohemian from 1885 and Kent from 1884. 

1885 William Younger XXX
pale malt 15.00 lb 100.00%
Cluster 120 min 1.00 oz
Hallertau 90 min 1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 min 1.00 oz
Saaz 30 min 1.00 oz
Goldings dry hops 0.50 oz
OG 1071
FG 1024
ABV 6.22
Apparent attenuation 66.20%
IBU 49
SRM 5.5
Mash at 153º F
Sparge at 163º F
Boil time 120 minutes
pitching temp 59º F
Yeast WLP028 Edinburgh Ale

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My guess would be flagons, suggesting that the patent may have been liquid and the patent used to change the colour of the beer for different markets, as was common in Scotland. The second Gyle might support this. Unfortunately, a flagon doesn’t have a defined capacity, so not a great deal of use unless you could find the actual flagon that the brewery used.