Let's Brew Wednesday - 1941 Adnams Double Stout

Another WW II recipe today. Well, I do have a book of wartime recipes to shift. And there are so many of the buggers in the book that I've enough for five years.

Here, too, the gravity has been reduced by 1º. Not a massive change and one which I’m sure went unnoticed by drinkers.

Similarly, the tinkering with the grist was too small for anyone but an expert taster to have perceived. The only change is a reduction of the base malt by half a quarter. The quantities of the other ingredients remained the same. Meaning the percentage of everything else has slightly increased.

This tiny level of change was really unusual. Had Adnams used adjuncts pre-war, the story would have been very different. As it was at most other breweries.
 
Double Stout was the one exception to Adnams usual system of fermentation in that it wasn’t dropped. Why that should be, I have no idea.

The hops are exactly the same two English types from the 1939 harvest as in their other beers.
 

1941 Adnams Double Stout
mild malt	6.75 lb	70.98%
crystal malt 80 L	0.67 lb	7.05%
amber malt	0.67 lb	7.05%
chocolate malt	0.67 lb	7.05%
No. 3 invert sugar	0.50 lb	5.26%
caramel 2000 SRM	0.25 lb	2.63%
Fuggles 120 mins	1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 mins	0.50 oz
Goldings 30 mins	0.50 oz
OG	1041
FG	1011.5
ABV	3.90
Apparent attenuation	71.95%
IBU	27
SRM	41
Mash at	146º F
After underlet	150º F
Sparge at	165º F
Boil time	120 minutes
pitching temp	59.5º F
Yeast	WLP025 Southwold

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

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