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In the 1930’s, genuine Scottish Stouts began to fade away as breweries concentrated almost exclusively on brewing Pale Ales.

This had some odd results. With some pretty strange Stouts gracing the brewing logs. This is an example of one.

It’s mostly to do with the grist. You may imagine that at least one type of roasted malt was essential to the flavour profile of a Stout. Not so in Scotland. They made do with pale malt and a load of sugar, sometimes, as in this case, with a little crystal malt included.

I’ve done some interpretation in terms of the sugars. These were the ones used in the original: 6 cwt. cane, 2 cwt. Penang, 2cwt. CDW, 1 cwt. Caramax, 1 cwt. DF. The first two sound like simple sugars. The next two are types of dark proprietary sugars, the last, I’ve no idea. A combination of No. 3 and No. 4 invert should come somewhere close.

As always with Thomas Usher 20th-century recipes, the hops are a total guess as there are no details in the brewing record. Substituting something like Cluster for the 120 minute addition wouldn’t be out of place.





1931 Thomas Usher Stout 80/-


pale malt
6.00 lb
61.54%


crystal malt 60 L
0.75 lb
7.69%


No. 3 invert sugar
1.75 lb
17.95%


No. 4 invert sugar
1.25 lb
12.82%


Fuggles 120 min
0.50 oz



Fuggles 60 min
0.50 oz



Fuggles 30 min
0.50 oz



OG
1052



FG
1023



ABV
3.84



Apparent attenuation
55.77%



IBU
18



SRM
30



Mash at
148º F



Sparge at
170º F



Boil time
120 minutes



pitching temp
60º F



Yeast
WLP028 Edinburgh Ale




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