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Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Let's Brew Wednesday - 1912 Crowley B

A Crowley Alton Brew label featuring a drawing of a crow's head.
I'm now hard at work on the recipes for "Free!" As I have been for a while. I don't want a repeat of "Blitzkrieg!", where the text of the book was complete but I still had 200 recipes to write. It was a pain in the arse. 

Which is why I've been chipping away at the "Free!" recipes for  a year or so. I'm already up to 300 recipes. It's now a race. Which will I finish first: the text or the recipes?

We’re now with Crowley’s second range of Pale Ales. The ones described in an 1885 advertisement as “Bitter Beer”.

This is the weakest of the set, with a very low gravity for a pre-WW I Pale Ale. Usually, around 1045º was the absolute minimum. It doesn’t seem to have been brewed in very large quantities and doesn’t feature in their newspaper adverts.

What’s the difference between this and the other set of Pale Ales? Well, this lot are slightly more heavily hopped. And use No. 2 invert sugar rather than No. 3.

There are two types of English hops, both from the 1911 season. 

1912 Crowley B
pale malt 7.75 lb 92.04%
No. 2 invert sugar 0.67 lb 7.96%
Fuggles 120 mins 0.75 oz
Fuggles 90 mins 0.50 oz
Goldings 30 mins 0.50 oz
Goldings dry hops 0.25 oz
OG 1039
FG 1008
ABV 4.10
Apparent attenuation 79.49%
IBU 24
SRM 5.5
Mash at 150º F
Sparge at 170º F
Boil time 120 minutes
pitching temp 60º F
Yeast Wyeast 1275 Thames Valley ale



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