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Let’s take a look Young’s beers in the middle of the grooviest of all decades.
There are quite a lot of them. Though a couple are just variants off other beers. SPA (Special Bitter) appears twice because there was an increase in its gravity in 1975. A change which then made it identical to Ram Rod.
I’m not sure what YPV was. It was a slightly weaker version of PA (Ordinary Bitter) that was occasionally made in small quantities. EXPA is Export Pale Ale or Special London Ale. Usually parti-gyled with a couple of other Pale Ales. PAB is bottling Pale Ale, which was probably marketed as Light Ale.
The rates of attenuation are all pretty high. I haven’t taken the highest or lowest but a median value for the FGs. I never realised just how strong Special was. Mostly over 5% ABV.
Rather unexpectedly, Saxon is level most hopped beer, along with Export Pale Ale, with over 7 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt. The other Pale Ales were all hopped at around 5.5 lbs per quarter of malt. And the Mild and Winter Warmer, which were parti-gyled together,
It’s always nice to have colours listed. In this case, EBC. Which shows that the Pale Ales were on the pale side. With the Light Ale barely darker than the Lager.
Young's beers in 1975
Beer
Style
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl
colour
BMA
Mild
1030.5
1005.5
3.30
81.82%
3.40
0.44
76
PAB
Pale Ale
1030.5
1005.0
3.37
83.64%
5.49
0.67
14
YPV
Pale Ale
1035.5
1007.2
3.74
79.69%
5.49
0.74
18
PA
Pale Ale
1036.6
1005.5
4.10
84.85%
5.87
0.88
14
SPA
Pale Ale
1044.9
1006.6
5.06
85.19%
5.50
1.00
SPA
Pale Ale
1047.6
1007.2
5.35
84.88%
5.99
1.20
22
Ram Rod
Pale Ale
1047.6
1009.4
5.06
80.23%
5.53
1.08
23
EXPA
Pale Ale
1062.6
1017.2
6.01
72.57%
7.38
1.83
27
Winter Warmer
Strong Ale
1055.4
1011.6
5.79
79.00%
3.48
0.72
68
Old Nick
Barley Wine
1084.2
1023.8
7.99
71.71%
5.26
1.87
51
Saxon
Lager
1032.7
1005.0
3.66
84.75%
7.29
1.00
12
Source:
Young's brewing record held at Battersea Library, document number YO/RE/1/44.
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Let’s take a look Young’s beers in the middle of the grooviest of all decades.
There are quite a lot of them. Though a couple are just variants off other beers. SPA (Special Bitter) appears twice because there was an increase in its gravity in 1975. A change which then made it identical to Ram Rod.
I’m not sure what YPV was. It was a slightly weaker version of PA (Ordinary Bitter) that was occasionally made in small quantities. EXPA is Export Pale Ale or Special London Ale. Usually parti-gyled with a couple of other Pale Ales. PAB is bottling Pale Ale, which was probably marketed as Light Ale.
The rates of attenuation are all pretty high. I haven’t taken the highest or lowest but a median value for the FGs. I never realised just how strong Special was. Mostly over 5% ABV.
Rather unexpectedly, Saxon is level most hopped beer, along with Export Pale Ale, with over 7 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt. The other Pale Ales were all hopped at around 5.5 lbs per quarter of malt. And the Mild and Winter Warmer, which were parti-gyled together,
It’s always nice to have colours listed. In this case, EBC. Which shows that the Pale Ales were on the pale side. With the Light Ale barely darker than the Lager.
Young's beers in 1975
Beer
Style
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl
colour
BMA
Mild
1030.5
1005.5
3.30
81.82%
3.40
0.44
76
PAB
Pale Ale
1030.5
1005.0
3.37
83.64%
5.49
0.67
14
YPV
Pale Ale
1035.5
1007.2
3.74
79.69%
5.49
0.74
18
PA
Pale Ale
1036.6
1005.5
4.10
84.85%
5.87
0.88
14
SPA
Pale Ale
1044.9
1006.6
5.06
85.19%
5.50
1.00
SPA
Pale Ale
1047.6
1007.2
5.35
84.88%
5.99
1.20
22
Ram Rod
Pale Ale
1047.6
1009.4
5.06
80.23%
5.53
1.08
23
EXPA
Pale Ale
1062.6
1017.2
6.01
72.57%
7.38
1.83
27
Winter Warmer
Strong Ale
1055.4
1011.6
5.79
79.00%
3.48
0.72
68
Old Nick
Barley Wine
1084.2
1023.8
7.99
71.71%
5.26
1.87
51
Saxon
Lager
1032.7
1005.0
3.66
84.75%
7.29
1.00
12
Source:
Young's brewing record held at Battersea Library, document number YO/RE/1/44.
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