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In April 1917 Barclay Perkins dropped their bottling version of XLK and replaced it with “crate”.
At first I wondered what the hell they meant with crate. Surely all bottled beer was delivered in crates? Then I remembered some old adverts. Where they show a four-quart crate. It’s always cheap and cheerful beer being marketed that way. It looks to me like a transitional thing, when having a cask was going out of fashion, but people still wanted to buy in relative bulk.
Which explains a fairly low OG. Weirdly, the type of quart screw-topped bottles they used for crate beer were still around when I lived in Leeds in the later 1970s. I can remember buying Whitbread beer in bottles like that from Mr. Fisher, the bloke who ran the open all hours grocery and offie opposite 97 Brudenell Road. A house I lived in several times.
A forerunner of Light Ale is how I’d describe this. Light Ale being the low-gravity bottled Pale Ale that was all the rage between 1930 and 1970.
1917 Barclay Perkins XLK (crate)
pale malt
7.25 lb
91.66%
No. 2 invert sugar
0.33 lb
4.17%
No. 3 invert sugar
0.33 lb
4.17%
Fuggles 120 mins
1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 mins
0.75 oz
OG
1036
FG
1008
ABV
3.70
Apparent attenuation
77.78%
IBU
25
SRM
6
Mash at
152º F
Sparge at
170º F
Boil time
120 minutes
pitching temp
60.5º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1099 Whitbread Ale
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In April 1917 Barclay Perkins dropped their bottling version of XLK and replaced it with “crate”.
At first I wondered what the hell they meant with crate. Surely all bottled beer was delivered in crates? Then I remembered some old adverts. Where they show a four-quart crate. It’s always cheap and cheerful beer being marketed that way. It looks to me like a transitional thing, when having a cask was going out of fashion, but people still wanted to buy in relative bulk.
Which explains a fairly low OG. Weirdly, the type of quart screw-topped bottles they used for crate beer were still around when I lived in Leeds in the later 1970s. I can remember buying Whitbread beer in bottles like that from Mr. Fisher, the bloke who ran the open all hours grocery and offie opposite 97 Brudenell Road. A house I lived in several times.
A forerunner of Light Ale is how I’d describe this. Light Ale being the low-gravity bottled Pale Ale that was all the rage between 1930 and 1970.
1917 Barclay Perkins XLK (crate)
pale malt
7.25 lb
91.66%
No. 2 invert sugar
0.33 lb
4.17%
No. 3 invert sugar
0.33 lb
4.17%
Fuggles 120 mins
1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 mins
0.75 oz
OG
1036
FG
1008
ABV
3.70
Apparent attenuation
77.78%
IBU
25
SRM
6
Mash at
152º F
Sparge at
170º F
Boil time
120 minutes
pitching temp
60.5º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1099 Whitbread Ale
The above is one of almost 300 recipes in this wonderful book (http://www.lulu.com/shop/ronald-pattinson/armistice/paperback/product-23859948.html).
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There's also a Kindle version. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08374G4L7)
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