Saturday, 3 January 2026

Let's Brew - 1897 Fremlin BA C

A Fremlins County Ale XXXXX label with the text "Kemt's Best".
Looking very similar to BB is the country version of BA. It has the same gravity, and identical hopping. Only the grist is slightly different. Though it is the same as the standard version of BA.

Which is pale malt, flaked barley and No. 2 invert sugar. Nothing very exciting there. And very much like most of their other Pale Ales.

Loads of different types of hops again. Six in total, all English, from the 1896 and 1897.

I don’t expect that this was aged for more than a couple of weeks. 

1897 Fremlin BA C
pale malt 6.75 lb 71.05%
flaked barley 0.50 lb 5.26%
No. 2 invert sugar 2.25 lb 23.68%
Fuggles 135 mins 0.875 oz
Goldings 105 mins 1.75 oz
Goldings 75 mins 0.875 oz
Goldings dry hops 0.50 oz
OG 1048
FG 1013
ABV 4.63
Apparent attenuation 72.92%
IBU 52
SRM 9
Mash at 150º F
Sparge at 170º F
Boil time 135 minutes
pitching temp 60º F
Yeast Wyeast 1099 Whitbread ale

 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The fuggles time is 135 but the boil time is 105. I assume this means they put the first round of hops in before the boil began.

Was this an early example of First Wort Hopping? This article said some Germans were doing it a century ago, so it seems plausible.

https://www.beerandbrewing.com/ask-the-experts-what-is-first-wort-hopping

Anonymous said...

No bro...