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By the start of the 20th century most breweries were producing a range of Pale Ales at different strengths.
Light Dinner Ale was their second Pale Ale with a gravity under 1050º. This has a gravity more typical of an AK. While their own version of that style was a good bit weaker. Good that they were getting drinkers used to this strength of Pale Ale. They’d be seeing a lot more of them after WW I.
Note that Russell didn’t do any parti-gyling. All their beers were brewed single-gyle. Allowing them to vary the recipes between their Pale Ales. Which is exactly what they did. Here there’s around a third less invert sugar than in their AK, replaced by base malt. The tiny amount of caramel leaving it with the same colour as its weaker sibling.
A slightly higher hopping was also possible. 8 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt rather than the 7.5 lbs of AK. Leaving the bitterness a fair bit higher.
The same hops were used: English from the 1908 and 1910 seasons.
1911 Russell Light Dinner Ale
pale malt
7.75 lb
79.32%
flaked maize
0.75 lb
7.68%
No. 1 invert sugar
1.25 lb
12.79%
caramel 1000 SRM
0.02 lb
0.20%
Fuggles 90 mins
1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 mins
1.00 oz
Fuggles 30 mins
1.00 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.50 oz
OG
1046
FG
1011
ABV
4.63
Apparent attenuation
76.09%
IBU
36
SRM
7
Mash at
149º F
Sparge at
168º F
Boil time
90 minutes
pitching temp
59º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1768 English Special Bitter
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By the start of the 20th century most breweries were producing a range of Pale Ales at different strengths.
Light Dinner Ale was their second Pale Ale with a gravity under 1050º. This has a gravity more typical of an AK. While their own version of that style was a good bit weaker. Good that they were getting drinkers used to this strength of Pale Ale. They’d be seeing a lot more of them after WW I.
Note that Russell didn’t do any parti-gyling. All their beers were brewed single-gyle. Allowing them to vary the recipes between their Pale Ales. Which is exactly what they did. Here there’s around a third less invert sugar than in their AK, replaced by base malt. The tiny amount of caramel leaving it with the same colour as its weaker sibling.
A slightly higher hopping was also possible. 8 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt rather than the 7.5 lbs of AK. Leaving the bitterness a fair bit higher.
The same hops were used: English from the 1908 and 1910 seasons.
1911 Russell Light Dinner Ale
pale malt
7.75 lb
79.32%
flaked maize
0.75 lb
7.68%
No. 1 invert sugar
1.25 lb
12.79%
caramel 1000 SRM
0.02 lb
0.20%
Fuggles 90 mins
1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 mins
1.00 oz
Fuggles 30 mins
1.00 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.50 oz
OG
1046
FG
1011
ABV
4.63
Apparent attenuation
76.09%
IBU
36
SRM
7
Mash at
149º F
Sparge at
168º F
Boil time
90 minutes
pitching temp
59º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1768 English Special Bitter
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/05/lets-brew-wednesday-1911-russell-light.html)