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I'm a bit late with this one. A very special version of Lees Bitter – one brewed on VE Day. It won’t have been drunk for a week or two, by which time the euphoria of German surrender was probably starting to wear off. So this was probably slaking thirts in Manchester exactly 75 years ago.
It remains a very reasonable strength, just about hitting 4% ABV. Compared to the Bitters of many other breweries – Fullers, for example, which was down to 1034.5º – this is doing pretty well. Though Whitbread PA remained an impressive 1039.5º
Nothing has happened to the grist in the last year. It remains, not essentially, but exactly, the same.
The hops were English from the 1943 and 1944 harvests. Reductions in the hopping rate since the start of the war have had an effect. 24 (calculated) IBU isn’t much higher than the level their Mild had back in 1939.
1945 Lees Bitter
pale malt
6.75 lb
78.90%
black malt
0.01 lb
0.12%
flaked barley
1.00 lb
11.69%
glucose
0.125 lb
1.46%
No. 2 invert sugar
0.67 lb
7.83%
Fuggles 105 mins
0.75 oz
Fuggles 60 mins
0.50 oz
Fuggles 30 mins
0.50 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.25 oz
OG
1038
FG
1008
ABV
3.97
Apparent attenuation
78.95%
IBU
24
SRM
6
Mash at
150º F
After underlet
153º F
Sparge at
170º F
Boil time
105 minutes
pitching temp
60º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1318 London ale III (Boddingtons)
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I'm a bit late with this one. A very special version of Lees Bitter – one brewed on VE Day. It won’t have been drunk for a week or two, by which time the euphoria of German surrender was probably starting to wear off. So this was probably slaking thirts in Manchester exactly 75 years ago.
It remains a very reasonable strength, just about hitting 4% ABV. Compared to the Bitters of many other breweries – Fullers, for example, which was down to 1034.5º – this is doing pretty well. Though Whitbread PA remained an impressive 1039.5º
Nothing has happened to the grist in the last year. It remains, not essentially, but exactly, the same.
The hops were English from the 1943 and 1944 harvests. Reductions in the hopping rate since the start of the war have had an effect. 24 (calculated) IBU isn’t much higher than the level their Mild had back in 1939.
1945 Lees Bitter
pale malt
6.75 lb
78.90%
black malt
0.01 lb
0.12%
flaked barley
1.00 lb
11.69%
glucose
0.125 lb
1.46%
No. 2 invert sugar
0.67 lb
7.83%
Fuggles 105 mins
0.75 oz
Fuggles 60 mins
0.50 oz
Fuggles 30 mins
0.50 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.25 oz
OG
1038
FG
1008
ABV
3.97
Apparent attenuation
78.95%
IBU
24
SRM
6
Mash at
150º F
After underlet
153º F
Sparge at
170º F
Boil time
105 minutes
pitching temp
60º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1318 London ale III (Boddingtons)
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