Let's Brew Wednesday - 1888 Tetley X

Despite all their newspaper adverts pushing their East India Pale Ale, in the 1880s Tetley was basically a Mild Ale brewery. They produced four different versions, all brewed single-gyle.

Bottom of the pile was X. Or rather, X with a line through it. Unlike other breweries, Tetley didn’t go from X to XXXX. Instead, all were a single X, just with varying numbers of horizontal lines through it. No idea why.

There are only three elements to the grist: mild malt, pale malt and sugar.  I’ve no idea what the last was exactly. I can’t really read the description. It looks something like “Inchity”. I’ve gone for a conservative guess with No. 2 invert.

The hops are more comprehensible: Kent from the 1886 and 1887 harvests, Alsace from 1886 and Altmark from 1887.

1888 Tetley X
pale malt	6.50 lb	66.67%
mild malt	2.25 lb	23.08%
No. 2 invert sugar	1.00 lb	10.26%
Fuggles 120 mins	0.75 oz
Strisselspalt 120 mins	0.75 oz
Goldings dry hops	0.25 oz
OG	1046
FG	1016.5
ABV	3.90
Apparent attenuation	64.13%
IBU	20
SRM	7
Mash at	148º F
Sparge at	165º F
Boil time	120 minutes
pitching temp	65º F
Yeast	Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire Ale Timothy Taylor