I was surprised at just how much Light Ale Youngs were brewing in 1990. 300-odd barrels at a time and reasonably frequently. Not as much as Ordinary or Special, but still a decent amount. There must have still been a lot of Light and Bitter drinkers in their pubs.
Having said that, I don’t have any single-gyle brews of it. Just parti-gyled with either Ordinary or Special. This one being paired with the former.
Quite a simple recipe. Four types of pale malt, a touch of crystal malt, flaked torrefied barley and No. 3 invert. Oh, almost forgot the small amount of enzymic malt, just there to adjust the pH.
The brewing records include the lab results for colour and bitterness. The latter being 32 EBU. Dead handy to know this. But, using the correct hop quantities, the bitterness came out half of the measured value. My solution was to double the hop quantities.
Now, Light Ale would usually a bottled beer. But the quantities being brewed seem a bit big for that. Was it kegged, too? Pretty sure it was never sold in cask form.
| 1990 Youngs Light Ale | ||
| pale malt | 6.125 lb | 87.50% |
| crystal malt 120 L | 0.125 lb | 1.79% |
| torrefied barley | 0.50 lb | 7.14% |
| No. 3 invert sugar | 0.25 lb | 3.57% |
| Fuggles 70 min | 2.00 oz | |
| Goldings 10 min | 0.50 oz | |
| OG | 1031 | |
| FG | 1006.5 | |
| ABV | 3.24 | |
| Apparent attenuation | 79.03% | |
| IBU | 32 | |
| SRM | 6 | |
| Mash at | 148º F | |
| Sparge at | 167º F | |
| Boil time | 70 minutes | |
| pitching temp | 62º F | |
| Yeast | WLP002 English Ale | |
Listen to brewer John Hatch explain how they brewed at Youngs in the 1990s.
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