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30-09-2017, 09:58
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Apologies for the snail’s pace at which we’re progressing through WW II. It’s just that I want to demonstrate how often recipes had to change.


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Of course, this is nothing compared to what was going on in Germany. By the time this beer was produced in December 1944, brewing had all but ground to a total halt in Germany. As this table shows:



Year
UK
Germany



production
gravity
production
gravity


(barrels 1,000)
(barrels 1,000)


1938
24,535
1041




1939
25,532
1040.9
31,326
1041


1940
25,499
1040.6
29,774
1037


1941
29,101
1038.5
28,733
1034


1942
29,170
1035.5
25,976
1030


1943
29,956
1034.3
26,496



1944
31,472
1034.6




1945
32,667
1034.5




1949
26,276
1033.4
8,648
1032


1951
25,087
1037
17,360



Sources:


The Brewers' Almanack 1955, p. 56


100 Jahre Deutsche Brauer-Bund 1871-1971, p.202





Notes:


UK gravities are an average of all beer brewed


German gravities are for the strongest beer allowed.



I’ve never been able to find figures for German beer output in the last two years of the war. I suspect it was an extremely amount. For the first couple of years after the end of the war, the only brewing that was allowed in the British occupied zone was for the British army.

But back to the beer in hand. The only real change to the recipe from the 1943 version is the replacement of the flaked and malted oats by flaked barley. As we learned last time, this wasn’t exactly a voluntary choice on the part of the brewer. Brewers continued to use flaked barley until the end of the 1940’s, when supplies to maize were resumed.

All of the base malt was SA malt, for which I’ve substituted mild malt.

Barclay Perkins continued to brew both X and XX, even though there were only 2 points difference in their gravities. Talking of which, the primings that X received at racking time raised its gravity to a mighty 1032º.

I’m not totally sure what the finished colour of this beer was. I assume dark. As brewed, it was 10 SRM. But in the front of this brewing book there’s a sheet giving the colour standards for all their beers date 1st April 1946. Both X and XX are listed at 21-22 SRM, meaning they were no longer making a semi-dark Mild. Whereas earlier in the war, X was dark and XX semi-dark.

The hopping is both pretty light and the hops quite old. A third were from the 1941 crop and two-thirds from the 1943 crop. I’ve reduced the amount accordingly.



1944 Barclay Perkins X


mild malt
4.25 lb
69.22%


amber malt
0.50 lb
8.14%


crystal malt 60 L
0.33 lb
5.37%


flaked barley
0.50 lb
8.14%


No. 3 invert sugar
0.50 lb
8.14%


caramel 1000 SRM
0.06 lb
0.98%


Fuggles 90 mins
0.50 oz



Fuggles 60 mins
0.25 oz



Fuggles 30 mins
0.25 oz



OG
1029



FG
1009



ABV
2.65



Apparent attenuation
68.97%



IBU
14



SRM
12



Mash at
150º F



Sparge at
165º F



Boil time
90 minutes



pitching temp
61º F



Yeast
Wyeast 1099 Whitbread Ale






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