Let's Brew - 1945 William Younger IPA Pale

Here's a special beer for all you IPA fans. One that's about as far away from the modern idea of an IPA as you can get, with its weedy gravity and hopping a low-gravity Mild would be embarrassed about. So what makes it an IPA? That's what the brewer called it. The only criterium that makes any sense.

With IPA Pale it isn’t quite the same story as the other Pale Ales. It isn’t quite similar to the previous year’s version. It’s 100% identical.

About all I can say about the grist, is that there are two types of pale malt, one English and one Scottish. With around twice of much of the latter as the former.

The few hops thrown into the copper were a single type form Kent, harvested in 1943. 

1945 William Younger IPA Pale
pale malt	7.75 lb	73.81%
flaked barley	2.75 lb	26.19%
Fuggles 75 min	0.75 oz
Fuggles 30 min	0.50 oz
Goldings dry hops	0.25 oz
OG	1044
FG	1013
ABV	4.10
Apparent attenuation	70.45%
IBU	15
SRM	4
Mash at	152º F
Sparge at	160º F
Boil time	75 minutes
pitching temp	60º F
Yeast	WLP028 Edinburgh Ale

This recipe is one of 553 in my recently-released BlitzKrieg!, the definitive book on brewing during WW II.

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The second volume contains the recipes. But not just that. There are also overviews of some of the breweries covered, showing their beers at the start and the end of the conflict.

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