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22-11-2023, 07:10
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I never drank this beer. Despite it being brewed in the town where I lived.
Tetley also produced a Light Mild in their Hunslet brewery. Not that I can ever remember it being sold in Leeds. Maybe it was for the bits of West Yorkshire where they liked their Mild pale.*
I seem to remember it being a keg-only beer. It only appears in the Good Beer Guide from the early 1980s. I suppose that’s when they started selling some in cask form.
The recipe isn’t hugely different from Mild. It’s 0.5º higher in gravity. And the sugar is different – ERC 4ths. No idea what that was. As this is a beer meant to be pale, I’ve substituted No. 1 invert.
There are a few more hops, as the bitterness level was higher. About halfway between Mild and Bitter. Which has me thinking. This is a bit like mixed – Mild and Bitter in equal quantities. Just a little paler than that combination.
There was less “sterilised beer” than in the Mild added after fermentation, just 7.5% maximum.
For a change, this isn't an excerpt from a recently-published book. It's from the one I'm currently working on, "Keg!". A laugh a minute look at UK beer in the 1970s. Which will be available when I finish it.
* Let me know if I'm talking out of my arse here.
1985 Tetley Falstaff
pale malt
5.25 lb
77.55%
torrefied barley
0.50 lb
7.39%
No. 1 invert sugar
1.00 lb
14.77%
caramel 2000 SRM
0.02 lb
0.30%
Fuggles 90 mins
0.75 oz
Fuggles 60 mins
0.75 oz
Fuggles 30 mins
0.50 oz
Northdown dry hops
0.125 oz
OG
1032.5
FG
1006.5
ABV
3.44
Apparent attenuation
80.00%
IBU
27
SRM
7.5
Mash at
146º F
Sparge at
165º F
Boil time
90 minutes
pitching temp
63º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire Ale
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I never drank this beer. Despite it being brewed in the town where I lived.
Tetley also produced a Light Mild in their Hunslet brewery. Not that I can ever remember it being sold in Leeds. Maybe it was for the bits of West Yorkshire where they liked their Mild pale.*
I seem to remember it being a keg-only beer. It only appears in the Good Beer Guide from the early 1980s. I suppose that’s when they started selling some in cask form.
The recipe isn’t hugely different from Mild. It’s 0.5º higher in gravity. And the sugar is different – ERC 4ths. No idea what that was. As this is a beer meant to be pale, I’ve substituted No. 1 invert.
There are a few more hops, as the bitterness level was higher. About halfway between Mild and Bitter. Which has me thinking. This is a bit like mixed – Mild and Bitter in equal quantities. Just a little paler than that combination.
There was less “sterilised beer” than in the Mild added after fermentation, just 7.5% maximum.
For a change, this isn't an excerpt from a recently-published book. It's from the one I'm currently working on, "Keg!". A laugh a minute look at UK beer in the 1970s. Which will be available when I finish it.
* Let me know if I'm talking out of my arse here.
1985 Tetley Falstaff
pale malt
5.25 lb
77.55%
torrefied barley
0.50 lb
7.39%
No. 1 invert sugar
1.00 lb
14.77%
caramel 2000 SRM
0.02 lb
0.30%
Fuggles 90 mins
0.75 oz
Fuggles 60 mins
0.75 oz
Fuggles 30 mins
0.50 oz
Northdown dry hops
0.125 oz
OG
1032.5
FG
1006.5
ABV
3.44
Apparent attenuation
80.00%
IBU
27
SRM
7.5
Mash at
146º F
Sparge at
165º F
Boil time
90 minutes
pitching temp
63º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire Ale
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/11/lets-brew-wednesday-1985-tetley-falstaff.html)