Wednesday, 17 December 2025

Let's Brew Wednesday - 1897 Fremlin X

A Fremlins Brown Ale label with the text "Bittered entirely with hops Fremlins Ltd. Pale Ale Brewery Maidstone".
Since I've been boring you stupid with details of Fremlin's beers, I may as well round it off with a recipe.

Very unusually for the 19th century, Fremlin brewed bugger all Mild Ale. They really were, as they advertised, a Pale Ale brewer.

This looks pretty much like bog-standard Mild Ale of the period. Though quite pale.

It’s a reasonably simple recipe. All base malt, but of three types: one of Californian high-dried and two of English pale malt. Plus a sugar described as “cane”. I’ve assumed that means raw cane sugar rather than pure sucrose.

All English hops, three from the 1896 harvest and one from 1897. 

No ageing, of course. 

1897 Fremlin X
pale malt 4.00 lb 39.02%
Munich malt 20L 4.00 lb 39.02%
raw cane sugar 2.25 lb 21.95%
Fuggles 120 mins 1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 mins 1.00 oz
Goldings 30 mins 1.00 oz
OG 1050
FG 1015
ABV 4.63
Apparent attenuation 70.00%
IBU 37
SRM 9
Mash at 150º F
Sparge at 170º F
Boil time 120 minutes
pitching temp 60º F
Yeast Wyeast 1099 Whitbread ale

 

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