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Sorry about being a day late. Pressure of work and all that. I think you'll find today's recipe is worth the extra 24 hours wait.


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A while back, I said to Kristen: "We should make a book of the Let's Brew recipes". Since then the collection of weekly recipes has continued to grow. (I believe this post is number 65 in the series) I think it would be a pretty handy one-stop guide to brewing the past. What do you reckon? Maybe throw in some unpublished recipes as a bonus.

Wandering away from the recipe path. Sorry about that. Time to tell you about No. 7. Great name, isn't it? Like to know where it comes from? Then continue reading.

As I'm sure you can all remember, for many years Truman operated two breweries: the original in Brick Lane London and a second in Burton. The former brewed Porter, Stout and London Milds. The latter, opened in 1873, Pale Ales and Burton Ales. I won't insult your intelligence by reminding you that Pale Ales and Burton Ales were quite different beasts.

Truman used a similar system to Bass for naming their Burton-brewed beers. P1 and P2 were the Pale Ales. The Burton Ales were numbered, in descending order of strength, 1 to 8. At the start of WW I, the gravities were 1 1100+, 3 1091, 4 1076, 5 1070, 6 1062, 7 1056, 8 1048, A 1042. (I don't seem to have a number 2 anywhere.) No. 6 down were Milds, No. 1 was a Barley Wine. Don't ask me what style the ones in between are. Burton Ales. That's a good one. Let's just call them Burton Ales.

Everything changed in April 1917. When all the numbered beers were discontinued and instead beers called X, XX and XXX were brewed. Withe gravities of 1033, 1037 and 1044. After the end of the war, the Pale Ales returned, as did a few of the numbered Burton Ales: 1, 3, 4 and 7. Though the X Ales continued to be brewed, often party-gyled with 7.

XX, XXX and 7 were still around in the 1950's,. Three Milds of not too dissimilar gravities, 7 being the middle of the three. I'm not sure where or under what name these beers were sold. If you know, please tell me. The Brick Lane brewery continued to brew Mild for the London market.

One note about the recipe. There were two types of base malt. Palt malt that had been malted by Truman themselves and "Yenne HD". Yenne is the maltster and HD = high dried. Now high dried is a pretty vague term. In this context it probably means pale malt dried at a slightly higher temperature. So something like mild malt.





That's me done, let's go over to Kristen . . . . .








Truman - 1953 - 7
General info: Truman Seven! What’s in a name right? It's gotta be seven times as good and no less! In all actuality the higher the number the less 'fantastic' the beer. 1 is great, 7 is not as great. This is a happy little X-type ale that relies entirely on a dash of crystal malt for its dark component. A healthy gob of colorant just to make sure its dark enough. Definitely a 'light' beer in every aspect. A mass produced beer that was cheap and very easy to drink!


Beer Specifics




Recipe by percentages
Gravity (OG)


1.034


43.1% English 2 Row
1.6% Caramel Colorant
Gravity (FG)


1.007


45.2% English 2 Row
0% 0
ABV


3.64%


4.7% Crystal 75
0% 0
Apparent attenuation


79.70%


5.5% Cane Sugar
0% 0
Real attenuation


65.29%
















IBU


18.2




Mash
90min@155°F


1.2qt/lb


SRM


22






90min@68.3°C


2.52L/kg


EBC


44.1




























Boil


1.5 hours






































Homebrew @ 70%


Craft @ 80%


Grist


5gal


19L


10bbl


10hl
English 2 Row


2.79
lb


1.271
kg


151.46
lb


58.52
kg
English 2 Row


2.92
lb


1.332
kg


158.67
lb


61.30
kg
Crystal 75


0.30
lb


0.138
kg


16.49
lb


6.37
kg
Cane Sugar


0.35
lb


0.161
kg


19.23
lb


7.43
kg
Caramel Colorant


0.10
lb


0.047
kg


5.58
lb


2.16
kg
















351.43










Hops
























Fuggle 5.5% 90min


0.53
oz


15.0
g


32.77
oz


0.792
kg
Fuggle 5.5% 30min


0.26
oz


7.4
g


16.19
oz


0.391
kg


























Fermentation


65°F /18.3°C






































Yeast
Nottingham ale yeast


1275 Thames Valley Ale Yeast - WLP023 Burton Ale Yeast
























Tasting Notes:
Biscuits and grain husks, sugary sweet crystal malt and rock candy, some apples with a hefty dose of pears, a little bitter and tannic astringency that really dries out in the very crisp finish.

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