This parti-gyle just keeps giving, with a third of Young’s range of Pale Ales, Ram Rod. Which was effectively their ESB. Except that it wasn’t usually sold on draught, only in bottled form.
I’m not sure if this is still brewed. It doesn’t appear on the Young’s beer website. Though RateBeer has one review from this year. It’ll annoy my mate Lucas if it isn’t, as he’s partial to a “Ram and Spesh”, a sort of upmarket Light and Bitter. Which would come out at about 5.1% ABV.
Obviously, being parti-gyled, it has the same basic recipe as Ordinary and Special. A very simple combination of maris otter pale malt and crystal malt. Along with English hops.
The bitterness level – as with the other two Pale Ales – seems on the low side. But that’s what BeerSmith spat out when I fed in the recipe.
| 2006 Youngs Ram Rod | ||
| pale malt | 11.75 lb | 94.61% |
| crystal malt 20 L | 0.67 lb | 5.39% |
| Fuggles 75 min | 1.00 oz | |
| Goldings 30 min | 0.75 oz | |
| OG | 1053 | |
| FG | 1011.5 | |
| ABV | 5.49 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 78.30% | |
| IBU | 25 | |
| SRM | 5.5 | |
| Mash at | 152º F | |
| Sparge at | 165º F | |
| Boil time | 75 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 64º F | |
| Yeast | Wyeast 1968 London ESB (Fullers) | |
You've published the Special recipe again.
ReplyDeleteHi Ron, Roger Protz in the Real Ale Almanac Fifth Edition 1997 quotes the IBU for all three Young's beers at 30-34 IBU. So, 30 for the Ordinary, 32 for the Special & 34 for the Ram Rod would be a realistic guess.
ReplyDeleteAs Trevor already said, compared to the Real Ale Almanac there are the usual issues with IBUs and the colour. For this beer, it also specifies 2% Crystal malt and no dark sugar. Very strange, all this.
ReplyDeleteAlso it says Ram Rod was dry-hopped with Goldings.
You could ask Derek
ReplyDeleteChristoph Riedel,
ReplyDeletethe colour given in the brewing record is 26.5 EBC. It's definitely 5.51% crystal: 120 quarters of pale malt and 7 quarters of crystal malt. With no colour corrections.
Hi Ron, bought a 275ml bottle today from Home Bargains for 79p for a 275ml 5% abv bottle. It's too dark light crystal, will have been brewed with most likely Medium Crystal (70l). Lots of recent reviews for it are on untapped.
ReplyDeleteHi Ron,
ReplyDeletethanks for checking. Why not type in the noted colour if you have the data? I guess the 5.5 SRM is the result from you calculator?
How sure are you about the malt colour? Could this be darker crystal?