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01-10-2016, 08:19
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I hope you’re enjoying gambolling through pasture of 1940’s brewing. Doesn’t it make you glad to be alive? In a different decade, obviously. The 1940’s sound pretty grim. Especially the post-war years.

You’ll be pleased to hear that we’re leaving watery beers aside for a . . . slightly less watery beer. One with all the punch of an Ordinary Bitter. Let’s face, this is pretty much the same beer as BB. Just a little bit stronger. It’s a weird world, the late 1940’s. Where a brewery might have four or five beers under 1033º.

I’m going to struggle to draw this out over 100 words. Er, pretty boring grist: pale malt, the obligatory flaked barley and a touch of malt extract. Again, around half of the hops look as if they’ve come from Shepherd Neame’s own hop garden.

Just a slightly stronger version of the BB. That’s it really. Just about done with Shep’s 1947 beer range. Just one to go: LDA. Guess what that is. Go on. Not got it? A waterier version of BA. Hard to believe that a beer of 1034º could be a brewery’s strongest. But it’s true. BA was the strongest beer Shep’s brewed in 1947. Happy days? I don’t think so.




1947 Shepherd Neame BA


pale malt
6.50 lb
80.55%


flaked barley
1.50 lb
18.59%


malt extract
0.07 lb
0.87%


Fuggles 120 mins
0.75 oz



Goldings 30 mins
0.75 oz



Goldings dry hops
0.25 oz



OG
1034.3



FG
1006.1



ABV
3.73



Apparent attenuation
82.22%



IBU
22



SRM
3



Mash at
151º F



Sparge at
170º F



Boil time
120 minutes



pitching temp
63º F



Yeast
a Southern English Ale yeast





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