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24-04-2021, 07:13
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To go with my earlier post on Fullers AK during WW I, here's another wartime recipe.I could keep the stream of AK stuff up for a good bit longer. And may well do, unless I get distracted.
It wasn’t just X Ale that had its gravity slashed. The same fate befell Fullers AK.
Not really surprising as on 1st April 1918, a few weeks before this beer was brewed, average gravity was cut to 1030º. It was logical that big-selling beers would need to have a gravity lower than that.
There have been more adjustments to the recipe, too. Back are No. 2 invert sugar and glucose, leaving the grist quite similar to the 1916 version, save for the absence of flaked maize.
The hops are exactly the same two types as in X Ale: Cobbs (1916) and Mid-Kent (1916).
The real mashing scheme was mash of an hour with an initial heat of 150º F, raised to 152º F after 25 minutes by an underlet. Left to stand for a further 1 hour and 35 minutes.
1918 Fullers AK
pale malt
4.25 lb
77.20%
No. 2 invert sugar
1.00 lb
18.17%
glucose
0.25 lb
4.54%
caramel 500 SRM
0.005 lb
0.09%
Fuggles 90 mins
0.75 oz
Goldings 60 mins
0.75 oz
Goldings 30 mins
0.75 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.25 oz
OG
1026
FG
1005.5
ABV
2.71
Apparent attenuation
78.85%
IBU
33
SRM
6
Mash at
152º F
Sparge at
168º F
Boil time
90 minutes
pitching temp
60º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1968 London ESB
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To go with my earlier post on Fullers AK during WW I, here's another wartime recipe.I could keep the stream of AK stuff up for a good bit longer. And may well do, unless I get distracted.
It wasn’t just X Ale that had its gravity slashed. The same fate befell Fullers AK.
Not really surprising as on 1st April 1918, a few weeks before this beer was brewed, average gravity was cut to 1030º. It was logical that big-selling beers would need to have a gravity lower than that.
There have been more adjustments to the recipe, too. Back are No. 2 invert sugar and glucose, leaving the grist quite similar to the 1916 version, save for the absence of flaked maize.
The hops are exactly the same two types as in X Ale: Cobbs (1916) and Mid-Kent (1916).
The real mashing scheme was mash of an hour with an initial heat of 150º F, raised to 152º F after 25 minutes by an underlet. Left to stand for a further 1 hour and 35 minutes.
1918 Fullers AK
pale malt
4.25 lb
77.20%
No. 2 invert sugar
1.00 lb
18.17%
glucose
0.25 lb
4.54%
caramel 500 SRM
0.005 lb
0.09%
Fuggles 90 mins
0.75 oz
Goldings 60 mins
0.75 oz
Goldings 30 mins
0.75 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.25 oz
OG
1026
FG
1005.5
ABV
2.71
Apparent attenuation
78.85%
IBU
33
SRM
6
Mash at
152º F
Sparge at
168º F
Boil time
90 minutes
pitching temp
60º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1968 London ESB
The above is an excerpt from Armistice, my wonderful book on brewing in WW I (http://www.lulu.com/shop/ronald-pattinson/armistice/paperback/product-23859948.html).
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