I’m fairly sure that this was an exclusively bottled beer. Though they may have filled up the odd pin for a special occasion. There wasn’t a great deal o fit brewed. This batch was just 30 barrels along with 279 barrels of Mild.
The finishing gravity is very high. Or at least the racking gravity is. It’s possible that there could have been further conditioning in tank before bottling.
| 1970 Youngs Celebration Ale | ||
| pale malt | 11.25 lb | 66.18% |
| crystal malt 60 L | 1.50 lb | 8.82% |
| flaked maize | 2.25 lb | 13.24% |
| malt extract | 0.50 lb | 2.94% |
| No. 3 invert sugar | 1.25 lb | 7.35% |
| caramel 1000 SRM | 0.25 lb | 1.47% |
| Fuggles 120 min | 2.00 oz | |
| Goldings 15 min | 1.75 oz | |
| OG | 1079 | |
| FG | 1032 | |
| ABV | 6.22 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 59.49% | |
| IBU | 32 | |
| SRM | 27 | |
| Mash at | 149º F | |
| Sparge at | 170º F | |
| Boil time | 120 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 57.5º F | |
| Yeast | WLP002 English Ale | |
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Very similar recipe to the 1970 Youngs Best Malt Ale
Looks familiar... (this was the recipe you listed for the Young's Best Malt post, Ron).
I'm guessing this was for Charles's investiture? Was brewing a coronation ale for events like that common historically?
Anyone got any ideas what coronation this beer was for?
+1 for the Charles investiture.
It seems a bit fanciful to assume that CA stands for Coronation Ale. The label you show is for their 1953 Coronation Ale (according to this website https://www.labology.org.uk/). It could just as easily stand for Chairmans Ale for example.
CA would have been Celebration Ale, which I believe was simply a renaming of Coronation Ale (and it had an almost identical label). In 1964 the brewery described it as “a high gravity dark beer of the barley wine type”, but it was replaced by Old Nick in 1971 (I don’t know whether or not that was a different beer from Celebration Ale).
Or Christmas Ale
John Lester,
thanks very much for that. I was assuming that it was the same beer as Coronation Ale, but probably not sold under that name. I think that Old Nick was basically the same beer, but I'll have to check. Both were parti-gyled with Best Malt Ale.
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