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As promised, here are Carlsberg's grists from the 1920s. Which turn out to be more interesting than you might expect.No shock that the Pilsners were mostly brewed from pilsner malt. Along with some maize. It is a surprise, however, to de "Farve malt" in the two weaker ones. It means "colour malt" and, based on its usage in Porter, seems to be something like black malt. Obviously, it's purpose is to darken the colour a little.
Moving on to the dark Lagers, we hit the first major problem in interpretation. What exactly was lager malt? I'm inclined to go for something like pale Munich malt. It can't just be another name for pilsner malt as the two types are kept very distinct in the records. The small quantity of caramel malt wouldn't account for the seemingly much darker colour.
The there's the next tricky ingredient: something called "Kulör" in the logs. 18 and 25 litres, respectively for 424 hl of Lager and 377 hl of Export. Clearly it's some sort of liquid caramel, but how dark was it? I could only guess.
Biggest surprise is that the Porter had 20% brown malt. That's so old school. Even in the UK almost no-one used it any more in Stout, except in London.
Ny Carlsberg grists in 1928-1929
Year
Beer
Style
Pilsner malt
Lager malt
caramel malt
brown malt
Farve malt
maize
1929
Ny Pilsner
Pilsner
84.24%
0.70%
15.06%
1928
Pilsner
Pilsner
79.74%
0.16%
20.10%
1928
Lagerol I
Lager
98.08%
1.92%
1929
Gammel Carlsberg Exp
Export
97.94%
2.06%
1928
Exp. Pilsner
Pilsner
70.00%
30.00%
1928
Porter
Porter
70.61%
21.41%
7.99%
Source: Carlsberg brewing record held at the brewery, document number Serie 000000299 000056839.
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As promised, here are Carlsberg's grists from the 1920s. Which turn out to be more interesting than you might expect.No shock that the Pilsners were mostly brewed from pilsner malt. Along with some maize. It is a surprise, however, to de "Farve malt" in the two weaker ones. It means "colour malt" and, based on its usage in Porter, seems to be something like black malt. Obviously, it's purpose is to darken the colour a little.
Moving on to the dark Lagers, we hit the first major problem in interpretation. What exactly was lager malt? I'm inclined to go for something like pale Munich malt. It can't just be another name for pilsner malt as the two types are kept very distinct in the records. The small quantity of caramel malt wouldn't account for the seemingly much darker colour.
The there's the next tricky ingredient: something called "Kulör" in the logs. 18 and 25 litres, respectively for 424 hl of Lager and 377 hl of Export. Clearly it's some sort of liquid caramel, but how dark was it? I could only guess.
Biggest surprise is that the Porter had 20% brown malt. That's so old school. Even in the UK almost no-one used it any more in Stout, except in London.
Ny Carlsberg grists in 1928-1929
Year
Beer
Style
Pilsner malt
Lager malt
caramel malt
brown malt
Farve malt
maize
1929
Ny Pilsner
Pilsner
84.24%
0.70%
15.06%
1928
Pilsner
Pilsner
79.74%
0.16%
20.10%
1928
Lagerol I
Lager
98.08%
1.92%
1929
Gammel Carlsberg Exp
Export
97.94%
2.06%
1928
Exp. Pilsner
Pilsner
70.00%
30.00%
1928
Porter
Porter
70.61%
21.41%
7.99%
Source: Carlsberg brewing record held at the brewery, document number Serie 000000299 000056839.
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