Let's Brew Wednesday - 1901 Truman (Burton) No. 7 R

Truman was still brewing a large range of Mild Ales in 1901. I’ve always wondered where these beers were sold. Because I’m pretty sure that they weren’t available in Truman’s London pubs. Were they sold in the free trade or in their tied houses in the Midlands?

There’s nothing very exciting about the recipe. It’s just base pale malt and an unspecified type of sugar. Though there were four types of pale malt, two made from English barley and two from Californian. The latter making up around a quarter of the total.

All the hops were English. Two from the 1899 harvest and one from 1900. With around 80% from the earlier year.

The “R” suffix tells you that this beer received no ageing. It would have been consumed within a couple of weeks of racking. 

1901 Truman (Burton) No. 7 R
pale malt	13.50 lb	96.43%
No. 2 sugar	0.50 lb	3.57%
Fuggles 150 mins	1.50 oz
Fuggles 60 mins	1.50 oz
Fuggles 30 mins	1.50 oz
OG	1062
FG	1018
ABV	5.82
Apparent attenuation	70.97%
IBU	51
SRM	6.5
Mash at	150º F
Sparge at	170º F
Boil time	150 minutes
pitching temp	58.5º F
Yeast	WLP013 London Ale (Worthington White Shield)