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Boddington had some confusing names for their beers. B, BB and CC. No idea what they stand for. The first two are Mild Ales, the last one a Strong Ale.
Is it connected with the legendary C Ale, a type of Strong ale specific to Manchester? I’ve no clue, if I’m being honest. It would be nice to think that there is, but why would you go from two C’s to one? The implication would be that it was weaker. Because that’s how beer naming usually went. And that’s not normally the impression you’d want to give with a Strong Ale.
Boddington’s CC was brewed until WW II, but discontinued, never to return, in 1941. They did brew a Strong Ale after WW II, but that was simply called SA in the brew house. I think you can guess what the initials stood for.
The recipe is classic 20th century English: pale malt, flaked maize, sugar and colouring. It strikes me that breweries, especially smaller ones like Boddington, tried to use as few types of malt as possible. In the run up to WW I, Boddington only used two: pale and black. The latter being used in tiny quantities and only in Stout.
As you may have noticed, this beer is quite heavily hopped. To be honest, other than the Cluster, the varieties are a guess. All that’s listed is the name of the grower, not even the region where they were grown. Feel free to substitute them.
While I’m mentioning guesses, the sugar is, too. The logs reveal nothing about the sugar type at all. It could be anything, but invert sugar is the most likely. As I’m pretty sure this beer was dark, No. 3 invert is the obvious choice.
1913 Boddington CC
pale malt
11.50 lb
86.34%
flaked maize
0.75 lb
5.63%
caramel
0.07 lb
0.53%
No. 3 invert sugar
1.00 lb
7.51%
Cluster 145 mins
0.75 oz
Fuggles 90 mins
1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 mins
0.50 oz
Fuggles 30 mins
0.50 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.50 oz
OG
1062
FG
1020
ABV
5.56
Apparent attenuation
67.74%
IBU
75
SRM
20
Mash at
158º F
Sparge at
168º F
Boil time
165 minutes
pitching temp
61.5º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1318 London ale III (Boddingtons)
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Boddington had some confusing names for their beers. B, BB and CC. No idea what they stand for. The first two are Mild Ales, the last one a Strong Ale.
Is it connected with the legendary C Ale, a type of Strong ale specific to Manchester? I’ve no clue, if I’m being honest. It would be nice to think that there is, but why would you go from two C’s to one? The implication would be that it was weaker. Because that’s how beer naming usually went. And that’s not normally the impression you’d want to give with a Strong Ale.
Boddington’s CC was brewed until WW II, but discontinued, never to return, in 1941. They did brew a Strong Ale after WW II, but that was simply called SA in the brew house. I think you can guess what the initials stood for.
The recipe is classic 20th century English: pale malt, flaked maize, sugar and colouring. It strikes me that breweries, especially smaller ones like Boddington, tried to use as few types of malt as possible. In the run up to WW I, Boddington only used two: pale and black. The latter being used in tiny quantities and only in Stout.
As you may have noticed, this beer is quite heavily hopped. To be honest, other than the Cluster, the varieties are a guess. All that’s listed is the name of the grower, not even the region where they were grown. Feel free to substitute them.
While I’m mentioning guesses, the sugar is, too. The logs reveal nothing about the sugar type at all. It could be anything, but invert sugar is the most likely. As I’m pretty sure this beer was dark, No. 3 invert is the obvious choice.
1913 Boddington CC
pale malt
11.50 lb
86.34%
flaked maize
0.75 lb
5.63%
caramel
0.07 lb
0.53%
No. 3 invert sugar
1.00 lb
7.51%
Cluster 145 mins
0.75 oz
Fuggles 90 mins
1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 mins
0.50 oz
Fuggles 30 mins
0.50 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.50 oz
OG
1062
FG
1020
ABV
5.56
Apparent attenuation
67.74%
IBU
75
SRM
20
Mash at
158º F
Sparge at
168º F
Boil time
165 minutes
pitching temp
61.5º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1318 London ale III (Boddingtons)
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