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05-04-2013, 08:10
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I thought I'd best post this sharpish, before you start thinking I've forgotten about it.

It's getting dead exciting now, as we see to what extent brewers have embraced the freedom to use whatever ingredients they choose.

Which, in the case of Tetley, is not at all. Which isn't to say that they haven't changed their grists. They're still all malt, but have moved from 100% pale malt to a mixture of pale and mild malt. How exciting. I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight.

The London Milds have grists all over the shop. They don't even all use pale malt as a base. Fullers go for an amber malt base, in one Barclay Perkins beer, it's white malt. Then there are the special malts: brown in one Barclay Perkins beer, crystal in another. Barclay Perkins also have flaked rice in one beer, the only adjunct to show up.

Not even sugar is a constant. A couple of the examples from Barclay Perkins contain none. Unfortunately, it isn't specified what most of them are. My guess would be No. 2 invert, but I could be wrong.

The Barclay Perkins recipes are an odd bunch, with by far the widest range of ingredients. It looks to me like they were still experimenting. I was so shocked to see all that brown malt in one that I went back to the original log to check. Definitely brown malt.

You may have noticed that I've changed the name of one of the Truman beers from X Ale to D Ale. Just me not reading the log properly. It seems that their slightly weaker Mild did have a name of its own.

What does all this tell us? That Mild recipes were in a period of flux with new ingredients being tried out. It settled down again later, with grists from different breweries coming more into line. But we'll see that as we progress through the decades with Tetley Mild as our guide.

In terms of hop sources, Tetley are about in the middle of the pack. They use ones from Germany (Altmark and Alsace), Austria (Bohemia) and the two main English regions (Kent and Worcester). Fullers, with all English hops and Whitbread with English and Bavarian hops are the most conservative. While Barclay Perkins and Truman both went for a combination of English and American hops.

It demonstrates nicely how British brewers sourced hops from all over the world.

That's it for now. But I'll be back soon with the 1890's.




Tetley Mild grists in 1888


Date
Year
Beer
OG
FG
ABV
pale malt
MA malt
hops


10th May
1888
X
1046.0
1016.6
3.88
75.00%
25.00%
Kent, Alsace and Altmark hops


11th May
1888
X
1046.0
1016.1
3.96
75.00%
25.00%
Kent, Alsace and Altmark hops


11th May
1888
X1
1053.7
1016.6
4.91
37.50%
62.50%
Kent, Alsace and Altmark hops


11th May
1888
X2
1062.6
1016.6
6.08
37.50%
62.50%
Kent, Alsace and Altmark hops


9th May
1888
X2
1063.2
1018.8
5.86
50.00%
50.00%
Kent, Worcester, Altmark and Alsace hops.


14th May
1888
X2
1063.2
1016.6
6.16
37.50%
62.50%
Kent, Alsace and Altmark hops


13th Jun
1888
X3
1071.2
1016.1
7.29
49.49%
50.51%
Kent, Worcester and Bohemian hops.


Source:


Tetley brewing record held at the West Yorkshire Archive Service document number WYL756/44/ACC1903



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London Mild grists 1886 - 1888


Date
Year
Brewer
Beer
OG
FG
ABV
pale malt
brown malt
amber malt
crystal malt
white malt
no. 1 sugar
other sugar
flaked rice
hops


28th Dec
1886
Barclay Perkins
X
1060.0
1012.2
6.33



3.90%
74.13%

11.56%
10.40%
Farnham and MK Hops


24th Jun
1886
Barclay Perkins
X
1064.0
1015.0
6.49
72.57%
27.43%






American and MK hops


21st May
1886
Barclay Perkins
XX
1076.0
1022.7
7.05
100.00%







EK and Worcester hops


17th Aug
1886
Barclay Perkins
XX
1076.0
1022.4
7.09
85.71%




14.29%


American and EK hops


1st Mar
1888
Whitbread
X
1060.7
1016.9
5.79
92.31%





7.69%

Bavarian and English hops


1st Mar
1888
Whitbread
XK
1068.1
1020.8
6.27
92.31%





7.69%

Bavarian and English hops


23rd Apr
1887
Fuller
X
1054.6
1020.5
4.51


73.69%



26.31%

Worcester and Kent hops


23rd Apr
1887
Fuller
XX
1064.8
1023.3
5.50


73.69%



26.31%

Worcester and Kent hops


12th Jul
1886
Truman
D Ale
1052.6


88.48%





11.52%

American and English hops


12th Jul
1886
Truman
X Ale
1058.7


88.48%





11.52%

American and English hops


18th May
1886
Truman
X Ale
1058.7


86.78%





13.22%

American, Californian and Kent hops


Sources:


Whitbread brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives document number LMA/4453/D/01/053.


Fullers brewing record held at the brewery.


Truman brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives document number B/THB/C/166.


Barclay Perkins brewing records held at the London Metropolitan Archives document numbers ACC/2305/1/583 and ACC/2305/1/584.



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