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We're nearly done. Just a couple more posts and that will be it for AK. At least for now.
I have been considering lumping all these posts and a few extra recipes into a book. Which I'd predictably call AK!. Would anyone be interested in that? It wouldn't be a huge book, probably only about 60 or 70 pages.
There's a surprisingly large number of malts represented: seven in all. Though no single beer contains more than four and most only a couple. Most is in the form of base malt, which isn't all pale malt, as you might expect.
Strong used a combination of PA malt, the best-quality pale malt and mild malt. The latter seeming to negate the former. Not sure why they'd go for that combination. The others all stick with trusty old pale malt, except for the 1967 iteration of Eldridge Pope, which includes a hefty amount of lager malt as well as wheat malt.
Eldridge Pope's beer was the only one to use crystal malt. In the case of the 1982 version rather a lot, coming to almost 20% of the total grist.
AK grists after WW II
Date
Year
Brewer
Beer
pale malt
PA malt
mild malt
black malt
crystal malt
lager malt
wheat malt
22nd Jan
1946
Shepherd Neame
AK
84.87%
2.27%
15th Jul
1947
Shepherd Neame
AK
92.31%
19th Mar
1952
Strong
SAK
29.13%
55.34%
3rd Jan
1964
Eldridge Pope
BAK
76.49%
5.97%
4.88%
6th Jan
1967
Eldridge Pope
BAK
49.86%
8.03%
19.39%
10.53%
17th May
1982
Eldridge Pope
BAK
74.19%
19.35%
6.45%
27th Jun
1984
Eldridge Pope
BAK
70.00%
10.00%
7.14%
Sources:
Strong brewing record, number 79A01-A3-3-27.
Eldridge Pope brewing record.
Shepherd Neame brewing record held at the brewery.
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We're nearly done. Just a couple more posts and that will be it for AK. At least for now.
I have been considering lumping all these posts and a few extra recipes into a book. Which I'd predictably call AK!. Would anyone be interested in that? It wouldn't be a huge book, probably only about 60 or 70 pages.
There's a surprisingly large number of malts represented: seven in all. Though no single beer contains more than four and most only a couple. Most is in the form of base malt, which isn't all pale malt, as you might expect.
Strong used a combination of PA malt, the best-quality pale malt and mild malt. The latter seeming to negate the former. Not sure why they'd go for that combination. The others all stick with trusty old pale malt, except for the 1967 iteration of Eldridge Pope, which includes a hefty amount of lager malt as well as wheat malt.
Eldridge Pope's beer was the only one to use crystal malt. In the case of the 1982 version rather a lot, coming to almost 20% of the total grist.
AK grists after WW II
Date
Year
Brewer
Beer
pale malt
PA malt
mild malt
black malt
crystal malt
lager malt
wheat malt
22nd Jan
1946
Shepherd Neame
AK
84.87%
2.27%
15th Jul
1947
Shepherd Neame
AK
92.31%
19th Mar
1952
Strong
SAK
29.13%
55.34%
3rd Jan
1964
Eldridge Pope
BAK
76.49%
5.97%
4.88%
6th Jan
1967
Eldridge Pope
BAK
49.86%
8.03%
19.39%
10.53%
17th May
1982
Eldridge Pope
BAK
74.19%
19.35%
6.45%
27th Jun
1984
Eldridge Pope
BAK
70.00%
10.00%
7.14%
Sources:
Strong brewing record, number 79A01-A3-3-27.
Eldridge Pope brewing record.
Shepherd Neame brewing record held at the brewery.
Adjuncts next.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2021/05/ak-grists-after-ww-ii.html)