Saturday, 21 June 2025

Let's Brew - 1884 William Younger Special Export

A William Younger Monk brand label featuring a monk holding a tankard of beer.
One of the more occasional brews at Younger’s Holyrood brewery was Export. And even rarer was Special Export.

The grist is more complicated than for XP and XXP. In that there’s more than just base malt. There’s the huge added excitement of a little sugar. In the form of dextro-maltose. For which I’ve substituted No. 2 invert.

The presence of dextro-maltose, along with the massive hopping rate of 15.75 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt and the fact that it was racked into a butt and hogsheads are a dead giveaway. A giveaway that this was a true Stock Pale Ale. The dextro-maltose being the food for a long, slow secondary fermentation.

The hops were Californian, Württemberg, American and East Kent from the 1883 harvest along with American from 1882. For dry hops, there were American and Württemberg, both from 1883.

This looks like a proper hard-core Stock Pale Ale. Which would have undergone a minimum of twelve months ageing.
 

1884 William Younger Special Export
pale malt 14.50 lb 95.08%
No. 2 invert 0.75 lb 4.92%
Cluster 120 min 3.50 oz
Cluster 60 min 1.00 oz
Hallertau 60 min 2.50 oz
Goldings 30 min 2.25 oz
Hallertau dry hops 1.00 oz
Cluster dry hops 1.00 oz
OG 1068
FG 1021
ABV 6.22
Apparent attenuation 69.12%
IBU 132
SRM 7
Mash at 151º F
Sparge at 163º F
Boil time 120 minutes
pitching temp 59º F
Yeast WLP028 Edinburgh Ale

 

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