Let's Brew - 1941 Barclay Perkins IPA (bottling)

With their bottled Pale Ales concertinaing due to gravity cuts, Barclay Perkins seem to have dropped the bottled version of XLK, either in late 1940 or early 1941. Those reductions in OG left IPA at about the same strength as pre-war bottled XLK.

It doesn’t look much like a modern IPA. But what the hell. It didn’t seem to confuse beer drinkers in the 1940s. They had much less fixed ideas about beer styles.

This being from the strange period towards the start of the war when Barclay Perkins used no adjuncts, the recipe is very simple. Though it was a bit more complicated in practice, there being four different pale malts. One from California and a couple described as PA malt. And one described as Gilstrap, meaning it was made in my hometown of Newark.

I love that Barclay Perkins could be arsed to note both the hop varieties and where they were grown. In this case, Mid-Kent Fuggles (1940 crop), Worcester Fuggles (1939, cold stored), Kent Goldings Varieties (1939) and East Kent Goldings (1939) as dry hops. 

1941 Barclay Perkins IPA (bottling)
pale malt	7.25 lb	85.29%
crystal malt 60L	0.75 lb	8.82%
No. 1 invert sugar	0.50 lb	5.88%
Fuggles 105 mins	0.75 oz
Fuggles 60 mins	0.50 oz
Goldings Varieties 30 mins	0.50 oz
Goldings dry hops	0.25 oz
OG	1037
FG	1007.5
ABV	3.90
Apparent attenuation	79.73%
IBU	26
SRM	7.5
Mash at	147º F
After underlet	151º F
Sparge at	165º F
Boil time	105 minutes
pitching temp	61º F
Yeast	Wyeast 1099 Whitbread ale

 

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