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William Younger brewed a baffling range of Pale Ales before WW II. While most Scottish brewers would have three, Younger had loads.
At Maclay it was 5d, 6d and 7d PA. Beers which would after the war become 60/-, 70/- and 80/-. At Drybrough it was P 54/-, P 60/- and P 80/-. While Younger has P, XP, XP Btlg, XXP, XXP Btlg, XXPS, Ext, LAE and MXP E. Don’t ask me what the hell they all were and why they needed so many.
LAE comes second in the gravity pecking order after Ext. I’m fairly certain it was a bottled beer. Partly by gut feeling. But also because there’s another beer at the same gravity called XXPS which I know was a draught beer. Because I drank it myself. It was another name for Younger’s Scotch or 70/-, a beer that was fairly common in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
The recipe is, as usual, remarkably subtle and complex. Like hell it is. Just another of Younger’s pale malt and grits specials. It is untypical, in fact, of interwar Scottish Pale Ales. By this time most other brewers were using healthy doses of sugar and rather less in the way of maize. The more I research William Younger the more I realise how untypical they were in general. Just as well I’ve looked at other brewers’ records, too and haven’t based all my conclusions on William Younger. I’d be coming out with the sort of crap Horst Dornbusch does.
Sometime in the late 1930’s Younger seem to have gone over to all English hops. The records are no more specific than “Kent”. My guess is Fuggles. But Goldings wouldn’t be crazy, either.
Younger was a big fan of dry hopping. Pretty much all of their beers were dry hopped, including the weediest Milds. Other brewers could have been as keen, but most don’t bother recording dry hops on their brewing logs. Lazy bastards (I’m looking at you Whitbread).
1939 William Younger LAE
pale malt
7.75 lb
73.81%
grits
2.75 lb
26.19%
Fuggles 90 min
1.00 oz
Fuggles 30 min
1.00 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.50 oz
OG
1046
FG
1013
ABV
4.37
Apparent attenuation
71.74%
IBU
26
SRM
4
Mash at
156º F
Sparge at
160º F
Boil time
105 minutes
pitching temp
61.5º F
Yeast
WLP028 Edinburgh Ale
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William Younger brewed a baffling range of Pale Ales before WW II. While most Scottish brewers would have three, Younger had loads.
At Maclay it was 5d, 6d and 7d PA. Beers which would after the war become 60/-, 70/- and 80/-. At Drybrough it was P 54/-, P 60/- and P 80/-. While Younger has P, XP, XP Btlg, XXP, XXP Btlg, XXPS, Ext, LAE and MXP E. Don’t ask me what the hell they all were and why they needed so many.
LAE comes second in the gravity pecking order after Ext. I’m fairly certain it was a bottled beer. Partly by gut feeling. But also because there’s another beer at the same gravity called XXPS which I know was a draught beer. Because I drank it myself. It was another name for Younger’s Scotch or 70/-, a beer that was fairly common in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
The recipe is, as usual, remarkably subtle and complex. Like hell it is. Just another of Younger’s pale malt and grits specials. It is untypical, in fact, of interwar Scottish Pale Ales. By this time most other brewers were using healthy doses of sugar and rather less in the way of maize. The more I research William Younger the more I realise how untypical they were in general. Just as well I’ve looked at other brewers’ records, too and haven’t based all my conclusions on William Younger. I’d be coming out with the sort of crap Horst Dornbusch does.
Sometime in the late 1930’s Younger seem to have gone over to all English hops. The records are no more specific than “Kent”. My guess is Fuggles. But Goldings wouldn’t be crazy, either.
Younger was a big fan of dry hopping. Pretty much all of their beers were dry hopped, including the weediest Milds. Other brewers could have been as keen, but most don’t bother recording dry hops on their brewing logs. Lazy bastards (I’m looking at you Whitbread).
1939 William Younger LAE
pale malt
7.75 lb
73.81%
grits
2.75 lb
26.19%
Fuggles 90 min
1.00 oz
Fuggles 30 min
1.00 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.50 oz
OG
1046
FG
1013
ABV
4.37
Apparent attenuation
71.74%
IBU
26
SRM
4
Mash at
156º F
Sparge at
160º F
Boil time
105 minutes
pitching temp
61.5º F
Yeast
WLP028 Edinburgh Ale
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