Let's Brew - 1903 Binnie Table Beer

After the tax category was abolished in 1830, Table Beer quickly banished from most of the UK. Except in Scotland, where it lived on until WW I.

What was this later Scottish style like? Extremely watery for the period. With a gravity of just 1030º. Binnie’s example also isn’t very well attenuated, leaving it under 2.5% ABV. Something for the kiddies, really.  It was always parti-gyled with 140/-.

There’s not a great deal to the recipe. Just pale malt and an unspecified type of sugar. I’ve guessed – as I usually do – for No. 2 invert. But it could have been another type of invert or even raw cane sugar.

Three types of hops were employed: Kent, American and Bavarian. With no vintage specified.

 My guess is that this was exclusively sold in bottled form.

1903 Binnie Table Beer
pale malt	6.50 lb	96.30%
No. 2 invert sugar	0.25 lb	3.70%
Cluster 90 min	0.50 oz
Hallertau 60 min	0.50 oz
Fuggles 30 min	0.50 oz
OG	1030
FG	1012
ABV	2.38
Apparent attenuation	60.00%
IBU	25
SRM	4
Mash at	152º F
Sparge at	170º F
Boil time	90 minutes
pitching temp	64º F
Yeast	WLP028 Edinburgh Ale