Saturday, 29 November 2025

Let's Brew - 1884 W.E. & J. Rigden AK

A Beer & Rigden Dibber Ale label with the text "Bittled by N. Kennard & Sons wine merchants Heathfield Sussex".
And here we are with another AK. You may now be getting an idea of just how common this name once was. I can never get me too many AKs.

The recipe is very similar to Mild Beer. The only real difference being the use of No. 2 rather than No. 3 invert. The hopping is a little heavier, but that is rather cancelled out by a quarter of the hops being spent. Leaving the level of bitterness around the same. Resulting in beers that are pretty much the same, other than the colour.

The hops themselves were two squiggles again and I’ve had to guess what types they were.

No ageing for this baby as it is a classic Light Bitter. And by definition a Running Beer. 

1884 W.E. & J. Rigden AK
pale malt 6.00 lb 61.54%
flaked maize 1.50 lb 15.38%
No. 2 invert sugar 2.25 lb 23.08%
Fuggles 120 mins 1.25 oz
Goldings 60 mins 1.25 oz
Goldings 30 mins 1.25 oz
Goldings dry hops 0.25 oz
OG 1050
FG 1013
ABV 4.89
Apparent attenuation 74.00%
IBU 50
SRM 9
Mash at 151º F
Sparge at 170º F
Boil time 120 minutes
pitching temp 59.5º F
Yeast Wyeast 1099 Whitbread ale

 

 

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