Rather more sugars. Making up a more substantial 10%-15% of the fermentables. If only I knew what they all are.
“Fla” and “Br” are the problems. Absolutely no clue what they might be. At least I know the invert was invert. Just not which type. CDM is Caramelised Dextro Maltose, used to add body and colour. That doesn’t leave me with much else to say, does it?
The malt extract was Diastatic Malt Syrup. Presumably, to help along in the mash. I can’t see why else you would use it.
Boddington adjuncts in 1971 | ||||
Beer | Style | roast barley | flaked maize | total adjuncts |
XX | Mild | 0.00% | ||
BM | Mild | 0.00% | ||
Light Ale | Pale Ale | 2.41% | 2.41% | |
IP | IPA | 2.27% | 2.27% | |
SA | Strong Ale | 0.00% | ||
WSS | Stout | 6.98% | 6.98% | |
Source: | ||||
Boddington brewing record held at Manchester Central Library, document number M693/405/134. |
Boddington sugars in 1971 | ||||||||
Beer | Style | malt extract | caramel | Fla | Br | invert | CDM | total sugar |
XX | Mild | 4.53% | 1.13% | 3.40% | 6.80% | 15.86% | ||
BM | Mild | 4.58% | 0.14% | 3.43% | 6.87% | 15.02% | ||
Light Ale | Pale Ale | 5.36% | 4.29% | 4.29% | 13.94% | |||
IP | IPA | 5.04% | 4.03% | 4.03% | 13.10% | |||
SA | Strong Ale | 2.41% | 0.45% | 1.80% | 2.41% | 3.61% | 10.68% | |
WSS | Stout | 6.77% | 5.07% | 11.84% | ||||
Source: | ||||||||
Boddington brewing record held at Manchester Central Library, document number M693/405/134. |
I'm looking forward to trying the Runaway recreation of a seventies Boddingtons bitter recipe at the launch of the new CAMRA book about Manchester pubs in a couple of weeks.
ReplyDeleteI drank Boddies from the late eighties, and the similar Chester's bitter, but I don't think either were the best examples of that sub-style of very pale, dry Manchester bitter now represented by Marble's beer of that name.
Could "Br" be something as simple as Brown (sugar)?
ReplyDeleteThere are clues to the sugar mysteries elsewhere on this blog...
ReplyDeleteFla = Flavex; a non-diastatic malt extract "with a full malt flavour"
Br = clearly a substitute for invert sugar so (as you suggest elsewhere) it probably stands for Barbados (syrup), i.e. raw cane syrup