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20-04-2024, 07:10
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Let’s kick off Usher’s beers with the surprisingly watery Forty Bob. Looking like a 1918 beer at a gravity of just 1030º. And not even 3% ABV. Though the real FG might have been lower.
This could easily have been called as Table Beer. And might well have been a couple of decades before. But, along with the tax category, the term itself had become obsolete. How was this drunk? Probably with food. At home.
It’s a very simple recipe of just pale malt and sugar. An undefined type of sugar. No. 2 invert is just my conservative guess.
Most off the hops are Californian. With 20% from Alsace. From the 1883 and 1884 harvests, respectively. The dry hops are my guess.
1885 Thomas Usher 40/- B
pale malt
5.75 lb
88.46%
No. 2 invert sugar
0.75 lb
11.54%
Cluster 120 min
0.75 oz
Cluster 30 min
0.25 oz
Strisselspalt 30 min
0.25 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.25 oz
OG
1030
FG
1011
ABV
2.51
Apparent attenuation
63.33%
IBU
25
SRM
5
Mash at
148º F
Sparge at
175º F
Boil time
120 minutes
pitching temp
57.5º F
Yeast
WLP028 Edinburgh Ale
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Let’s kick off Usher’s beers with the surprisingly watery Forty Bob. Looking like a 1918 beer at a gravity of just 1030º. And not even 3% ABV. Though the real FG might have been lower.
This could easily have been called as Table Beer. And might well have been a couple of decades before. But, along with the tax category, the term itself had become obsolete. How was this drunk? Probably with food. At home.
It’s a very simple recipe of just pale malt and sugar. An undefined type of sugar. No. 2 invert is just my conservative guess.
Most off the hops are Californian. With 20% from Alsace. From the 1883 and 1884 harvests, respectively. The dry hops are my guess.
1885 Thomas Usher 40/- B
pale malt
5.75 lb
88.46%
No. 2 invert sugar
0.75 lb
11.54%
Cluster 120 min
0.75 oz
Cluster 30 min
0.25 oz
Strisselspalt 30 min
0.25 oz
Goldings dry hops
0.25 oz
OG
1030
FG
1011
ABV
2.51
Apparent attenuation
63.33%
IBU
25
SRM
5
Mash at
148º F
Sparge at
175º F
Boil time
120 minutes
pitching temp
57.5º F
Yeast
WLP028 Edinburgh Ale
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2024/04/lets-brew-1885-thomas-usher-40-b.html)