The biggest change in Fullers top-of-the-line Pale Ale since 1897 is the name. From which the India has been dropped, leaving it simply Pale Ale. The switch was made sometime between 1902 and 1910. Why? I’ve no idea. Brewers had a habit of using the terms Pale Ale and IPA pretty randomly.
Two degrees have been shaved off the gravity, leaving it at 1054º. Odd to think that this was Fullers standard Pale Ale. A beer which has since evolved to became Chiswick Bitter at around 20º weaker. While the current Fullers beer which looks the most similar is ESB.
The recipe has become a good bit more complicated. There’s around the same amount of base malt, but instead of a single type of sugar, there are now two as well as a little flaked maize. The No.1 is my substitute for something called “pale invert”
There were four types of hops: Oregon from the 1907 crop, English and Mid-Kent both from 1909, and East Kent from 1908. Though the hopping rate is much lower than in 1897, 9 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt compared with 13.5 lbs. Which is reflected in a much lower IBU value.
| 1910 Fullers PA | ||
| pale malt | 9.50 lb | 82.47% |
| flaked maize | 0.33 lb | 2.86% |
| No. 1 invert sugar | 0.67 lb | 5.82% |
| No. 2 invert sugar | 1.00 lb | 8.68% |
| caramel 1000 SRM | 0.02 lb | 0.17% |
| Cluster 105 mins | 0.50 oz | |
| Fuggles 105 mins | 1.75 oz | |
| Goldings 30 mins | 1.75 oz | |
| Goldings dry hops | 0.75 oz | |
| OG | 1054 | |
| FG | 1012 | |
| ABV | 5.56 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 77.78% | |
| IBU | 51 | |
| SRM | 9 | |
| Mash at | 153º F | |
| Sparge at | 168º F | |
| Boil time | 105 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 59.5º F | |
| Yeast | WLP002 English Ale | |
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I looked for significant events in India around that time and found that 'Indian nationalists rebelled against the British government in the Bengal province beginning in 1907. Two British citizens were killed in a terrorist bombing in Muzaffarpur on April 30, 1908, and Khudi Ram Bose was executed for his involvement in the killings. The British parliament approved the India Councils Act on May 25, 1909, which introduced a limited degree of self-government in the colony'.
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