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03-03-2019, 08:07
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Following on from yesterday's post about odd over-strength versions of Fuller PA, here's a recipe for one of them. A tiny parti-gyle of PA that was way stronger than the normal version of the beer. You have to go back to the 1890s, when it was still called IPA, to find a version as strong as this.

Which begs the question: who was it brewed for? It seems to be a one-off and there were only 9.75 barrels of it, in a total parti-gyle of over 500 barrels. Was it brewed for a special event? For a specific customer? Who knows? It is intriguing.

It is about when Fullers dropped all their pre-war Pale Ales – PA, XK and AK – and replaced them with a new low-gravity beer called PA No. 2. Perhaps this was brewed to mourn the passing of full-strength Pale Ale.

There are some other odd features to this brew. Like the lack of any adjunct – it’s just malt and sugar. Which definitely how Fullers brewed. Their beers always contained some sort of adjunct. Pre-war it was flaked maize, during the war mostly flaked barley. The modest amount of sugar employed means that the grist is over 95% malt. Very odd in a wartime beer.

The hops were, of course, all English, most from the 1940 harvest, but also with 20% from 1938. 1940 English hops are a bit of a rarity, a third of the crop having been destroyed in a single air raid in September of that year.




1941 Fullers PA (Special)


pale malt
12.25 lb
96.88%


No. 2 invert sugar
0.25 lb
1.98%


glucose
0.125 lb
0.99%


caramel 1000 SRM
0.02 lb
0.16%


Fuggles 90 min
1.50 oz



Goldings 30 min
1.50 oz



Goldings dry hops
0.75 oz



OG
1056.5



FG
1017.5



ABV
5.16



Apparent attenuation
69.03%



IBU
36



SRM
7



Mash at
147º F



After underlet
150º F



Sparge at
170º F



Boil time
90 minutes



pitching temp
61º F



Yeast
WLP002 English Ale





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