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I imagine this beer must have been one of Tennant’s biggest sellers in bottle. Brown Ale was all the rage in the 1950’s.
Like Tennant’s other recipes, it has a bit of everything in the grist. A couple of types of malt, flaked maize, sugar and caramel. The colour mostly deriving from the latter. The brewing record handily records the beer’s colour. Handy, because it means I could work out what colour the caramel needed to be to get the correct colour.
Once again, there are two proprietary sugars, SBS and CWA, which I’ve interpreted as simply more No. 2 invert.
Bizarrely, this Brown Ale is more bitter than Tennant’s draught Bitters. Though the poor degree of attenuation must have left plenty of residual sweetness. It’s odd that while BB, Best Bitter and Queen’s Ale all contain lactose, this beer doesn’t. Despite Brown Ale being a style where lactose was sometimes present, unlike Bitter.
1956 Tennant's Lion Brown Ale
pale malt
4.00 lb
57.60%
crystal malt 60 L
0.25 lb
3.60%
enzymic malt
0.25 lb
3.60%
flaked maize
1.75 lb
25.20%
malt extract
0.07 lb
1.01%
No. 2 invert sugar
0.50 lb
7.20%
caramel 2000 SRM
0.125 lb
1.80%
Fuggles 95 mins
1.00 oz
Goldings 95 mins
0.25 oz
Fuggles 40 mins
0.25 oz
Goldings 20 mins
0.25 oz
OG
1031
FG
1010
ABV
2.78
Apparent attenuation
67.74%
IBU
26
SRM
20
Mash at
148º F
Sparge at
165º F
Boil time
95 minutes
pitching temp
60º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1099 Whitbread ale
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I imagine this beer must have been one of Tennant’s biggest sellers in bottle. Brown Ale was all the rage in the 1950’s.
Like Tennant’s other recipes, it has a bit of everything in the grist. A couple of types of malt, flaked maize, sugar and caramel. The colour mostly deriving from the latter. The brewing record handily records the beer’s colour. Handy, because it means I could work out what colour the caramel needed to be to get the correct colour.
Once again, there are two proprietary sugars, SBS and CWA, which I’ve interpreted as simply more No. 2 invert.
Bizarrely, this Brown Ale is more bitter than Tennant’s draught Bitters. Though the poor degree of attenuation must have left plenty of residual sweetness. It’s odd that while BB, Best Bitter and Queen’s Ale all contain lactose, this beer doesn’t. Despite Brown Ale being a style where lactose was sometimes present, unlike Bitter.
1956 Tennant's Lion Brown Ale
pale malt
4.00 lb
57.60%
crystal malt 60 L
0.25 lb
3.60%
enzymic malt
0.25 lb
3.60%
flaked maize
1.75 lb
25.20%
malt extract
0.07 lb
1.01%
No. 2 invert sugar
0.50 lb
7.20%
caramel 2000 SRM
0.125 lb
1.80%
Fuggles 95 mins
1.00 oz
Goldings 95 mins
0.25 oz
Fuggles 40 mins
0.25 oz
Goldings 20 mins
0.25 oz
OG
1031
FG
1010
ABV
2.78
Apparent attenuation
67.74%
IBU
26
SRM
20
Mash at
148º F
Sparge at
165º F
Boil time
95 minutes
pitching temp
60º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1099 Whitbread ale
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