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Let's return to the days of my youth. When orange juice IPA was just a fever dream.
Maclay, like most Scottish brewers, produced a Strong Ale. But they discontinues it sometime in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. It returned in the early 1970’s, but only seems to have been brewed intermittently.
As you would expect, it was just a very strong version of their Pale Ale parti-gyle. The only recipe they used. It’s exactly what you would expect: pale malt, flaked maize and sugar. Note how little crystal malt was used in Scotland. Pale Ales usually contained no other malt than the base pale malt. Even in England, crystal malt was rare in Pale Ales before WW II.
Just like with the other Maclay beers, I’ve replaced proprietary sugar DCS with No. 3 invert. And guessed about the hops and dry hopping. As brewed the colour is much paler and you’ll need to add caramel to hit 20 SRM. The real FG might well have been lower, around 1020º, so don’t get too worried if it ferments out past 1029º.
1971 Maclay Strong Ale
pale malt
12.75 lb
76.12%
flaked maize
1.75 lb
10.45%
malt extract
0.50 lb
2.99%
No. 1 invert
1.25 lb
7.46%
No. 3 invert
0.50 lb
2.99%
Fuggles 90 min
1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 min
1.00 oz
Goldings 30 min
1.00 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.75 oz
OG
1077
FG
1029
ABV
6.35
Apparent attenuation
62.34%
IBU
30
SRM
20
Mash at
147/156º F
Sparge at
165º F
Boil time
90 minutes
pitching temp
61º F
Yeast
WLP028 Edinburgh Ale
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Let's return to the days of my youth. When orange juice IPA was just a fever dream.
Maclay, like most Scottish brewers, produced a Strong Ale. But they discontinues it sometime in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. It returned in the early 1970’s, but only seems to have been brewed intermittently.
As you would expect, it was just a very strong version of their Pale Ale parti-gyle. The only recipe they used. It’s exactly what you would expect: pale malt, flaked maize and sugar. Note how little crystal malt was used in Scotland. Pale Ales usually contained no other malt than the base pale malt. Even in England, crystal malt was rare in Pale Ales before WW II.
Just like with the other Maclay beers, I’ve replaced proprietary sugar DCS with No. 3 invert. And guessed about the hops and dry hopping. As brewed the colour is much paler and you’ll need to add caramel to hit 20 SRM. The real FG might well have been lower, around 1020º, so don’t get too worried if it ferments out past 1029º.
1971 Maclay Strong Ale
pale malt
12.75 lb
76.12%
flaked maize
1.75 lb
10.45%
malt extract
0.50 lb
2.99%
No. 1 invert
1.25 lb
7.46%
No. 3 invert
0.50 lb
2.99%
Fuggles 90 min
1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 min
1.00 oz
Goldings 30 min
1.00 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.75 oz
OG
1077
FG
1029
ABV
6.35
Apparent attenuation
62.34%
IBU
30
SRM
20
Mash at
147/156º F
Sparge at
165º F
Boil time
90 minutes
pitching temp
61º F
Yeast
WLP028 Edinburgh Ale
The above is an extract from my ground-breaking book on Scottish brewing:
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