Friday 27 January 2023

How to interpret brewing records - part nine: Scottish format wort and yeast

We get to finish page 1 today. Hasn't this been fun? Probably not. I get the impression everyone got bored halfway through my explanation of the Barclay Perkins record.

Wort and yeast. Not the most exciting, but still important.


 Pretty simple.

Tuns
The fermenting vessels the wort was transferred to: tuns 19 and 20.

Barrels
Volume of the combined worts: 177 barrels.

Gravity
Gravity of the combined worts:1059º.

Now the yeast.


 Lbs.
Quantity of yeast: 110 lbs.

Where from.
The brews the yeast was harvested from: XXXX, XXP and XP. Not sure what the number is. I'd expect it to be a gyle number, but 3426 and 3438 are far too high.

Anyone interested in page 2? Anyone still reading?

 

10 comments:

swigging-pig said...

Sill reading, I'm finding it very interesting.

Mick said...

Still reading. Fascinating stuff.

InSearchOfKnowledge said...

Yes. :-)

Dave said...

Yes, still reading just not a ton to say or ask. Interesting though.

Dan Klingman said...

Yes, still here. I'm a bit confused on the totals carried forward (line 1) on the hops, were those used hops from a previous boil?

Ron Pattinson said...

Dan Klingman,

that's a running total of all the hops used so far this brewing year.

Anonymous said...

With interest.

Anonymous said...

Can you tell if every brewer had their own blank books printed, or was there a standard book multiple brewers were using?

María C. y Sebastián S. said...

por supuesto que siempre hay alguien leyendo y espiando desde la oscuridad. jajajja
saludos desde Argentina y gracias por compartir!!

Ron Pattinson said...

Anonymous,

brewers had their own specific books. Though there were a couple of general formats that most conformed to.