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01-04-2023, 07:16
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Thankfully, we’ve come to the end of another set of Younger’s beers, the Xs. Not many breweries went beyond XXXX. You occasionally find a XXXXX, but they were the exception rather than the rule.
For some reason, in my spreadsheet I have this listed as a Stock Ale. I’m not sure why. True, the hopping rate is higher than for XXX, which I list as a Mild Ale. But not a massive amount more. And, at around 7.5 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt, not really hopped like a beer intended for long ageing.
Is the recipe any more interesting than the other X Ales? No. Just base malt and nothing else. Two types, mind you. One is described as “Sy” the other as “Hg”, Syrian and Hungarian, perhaps? Not totally sure about that. But I am that neither was made from Scottish barley.
Five different types of hops, all coming from the 1884 harvest: American, Californian, Württemberg, Spalt and Kent. Nice of them to throw in a few UK hops. They might well have been the only domestically-sourced ingredient, other than the water and yeast.
1885 William Younger XXXX
pale malt
18.50 lb
100.00%
Cluster 120 min
2.00 oz
Spalt 60 min
2.00 oz
Fuggles 30 min
2.00 oz
Goldings dry hops
1.25 oz
OG
1080
FG
1024
ABV
7.41
Apparent attenuation
70.00%
IBU
75
SRM
6
Mash at
152º F
Sparge at
163º F
Boil time
120 minutes
pitching temp
56º F
Yeast
WLP028 Edinburgh Ale
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Thankfully, we’ve come to the end of another set of Younger’s beers, the Xs. Not many breweries went beyond XXXX. You occasionally find a XXXXX, but they were the exception rather than the rule.
For some reason, in my spreadsheet I have this listed as a Stock Ale. I’m not sure why. True, the hopping rate is higher than for XXX, which I list as a Mild Ale. But not a massive amount more. And, at around 7.5 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt, not really hopped like a beer intended for long ageing.
Is the recipe any more interesting than the other X Ales? No. Just base malt and nothing else. Two types, mind you. One is described as “Sy” the other as “Hg”, Syrian and Hungarian, perhaps? Not totally sure about that. But I am that neither was made from Scottish barley.
Five different types of hops, all coming from the 1884 harvest: American, Californian, Württemberg, Spalt and Kent. Nice of them to throw in a few UK hops. They might well have been the only domestically-sourced ingredient, other than the water and yeast.
1885 William Younger XXXX
pale malt
18.50 lb
100.00%
Cluster 120 min
2.00 oz
Spalt 60 min
2.00 oz
Fuggles 30 min
2.00 oz
Goldings dry hops
1.25 oz
OG
1080
FG
1024
ABV
7.41
Apparent attenuation
70.00%
IBU
75
SRM
6
Mash at
152º F
Sparge at
163º F
Boil time
120 minutes
pitching temp
56º F
Yeast
WLP028 Edinburgh Ale
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/04/lets-brew-1885-william-younger-xxxx.html)