Recipe details you can find above in the X Stout entry.
This batch of XXX was packaged into 24 hogsheads, 15 kilderkins and 15 firkins. Quite an odd mix of cask sizes there. With nothing going into barrels, just larger and smaller sizes. Not sure what that tells us. But I thought I’d share it with you.
Given the strength, at least some of it might have been aged. For maybe 12 2to 18 months. That might explain why some was racked into hogsheads.
| 1906 Drybrough XXX Stout | ||
| pale malt | 11.50 lb | 69.38% |
| black malt | 0.40 lb | 2.41% |
| flaked rice | 1.25 lb | 7.54% |
| flaked maize | 0.875 lb | 5.28% |
| No. 1 invert sugar | 0.40 lb | 2.41% |
| No. 2 invert sugar | 0.50 lb | 3.02% |
| No. 4 invert sugar | 0.40 lb | 2.41% |
| honey | 0.50 lb | 3.02% |
| caramel 500 SRM | 0.75 lb | 4.52% |
| Fuggles 120 mins | 0.75 oz | |
| Cluster 120 mins | 1.25 oz | |
| Fuggles 90 mins | 2.00 oz | |
| Goldings 30 mins | 2.00 oz | |
| OG | 1077 | |
| FG | 1015 | |
| ABV | 8.20 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 80.52% | |
| IBU | 72 | |
| SRM | 37 | |
| Mash at | 148º F | |
| Sparge at | 167º F | |
| Boil time | 120 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 61º F | |
| Yeast | WLP028 Edinburgh Ale | |
With only 2.4 % black malt, it seems like this wouldn’t have much of the roasted character that we usually associate with a stout.
ReplyDeleteProbably more than enough to make it roasty enough.
DeleteOscar
Did Drybrough ever parti-gyle their stouts?
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It's interesting that there's honey. Nowadays it's much pricier than sugar or syrup and in dark beer like this it's hard to see there being any real advantage to it, but of course there may have been a different set of things going on at that time that led them to using it.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts were it is quite an unusual ingredient.
DeleteOscar
Waggle Dance had honey in it but I could never actually taste it myself. I see it's gone from a Wells beer to Eagle Brewery which is Marstons - can't keep up with the constant changes in English breweries these days.
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