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17-09-2016, 08:23
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Another exciting beer from the colourful late 1940’s. Only joking. I realise the period was as grey as its beers were watery.

This is so exciting. Because this is a beer I drank quite often, it being one of Younger’s main cask beers. Though it was sold under different names: 70/- in Scotland, Scotch in England. It seems to have been introduced just after WW I, possibly as a reaction to the drop in gravity of their former flagship Pale Ale, XXP. Post-war, XXP became 60/-. So a beer which had originally been an IPA, ended up as Dark Mild. Now there’s a weird transformation. But I digress.

On paper, this looks very similar to the beer I drank in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The gravity, 1037º, is identical. Though I suspect the recipe was rather different by then. I can’t imagine that they continued to use flaked barley. I wonder if they went back to grits when maize became available again?

I know from a 1960 document that XXPS came in three different colours: 5, 6 and 9 SRM. The first was the as-brewed number, which is pretty close to the figure BeerSmith spat out.

Not much else to say, other than that this looks like an archetypal post-war Ordinary Bitter. Maybe the bitterness is a little below average.




1949 William Younger Pale XXPS


pale malt
7.25 lb
85.29%


flaked barley
1.25 lb
14.71%


Fuggles 90 min
0.50 oz



Fuggles 60 min
0.50 oz



Fuggles 30 min
0.50 oz



Goldings dry hops
0.25 oz



OG
1037



FG
1011



ABV
3.44



Apparent attenuation
70.27%



IBU
21



SRM
4



Mash at
153º F



Sparge at
160º F



Boil time
75 minutes



pitching temp
62º F



Yeast
WLP028 Edinburgh Ale





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