Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Courage X Ales 1858 - 1867

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Another table. The one with the important discovery. Are you as excited as I am? I thought not.

Mild Ales. That's what we've got today. Here you go:


Courage X Ales 1858-1867
Date
Year
Beer
Style
OG
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl
pale malt
brown malt
PA malt
sugar
total
5th Jan
1858
Ale X
Mild

1064.82

9.00

2.43

100.00%

100.00%

11th Jan
1858
Ale X
Mild

1064.82

9.00

2.47

100.00%

100.00%

29th Jan
1858
Ale X
Mild

1064.82

9.00

2.63

100.00%

100.00%

5th Feb
1858
Ale X
Mild

1064.82

9.00

2.74

21.43%

78.57%

100.00%

10th Feb
1858
Ale X
Mild

1065.37

9.00

2.57

50.00%

50.00%

100.00%

19th Feb
1858
Ale X
Mild

1064.82

9.00

2.71

50.00%

50.00%

100.00%

30th June
1858
Ale X
Mild

1064.82

11.00

3.26

42.86%

57.14%

100.00%

14th July
1858
Ale X
Mild

1065.10

11.00

3.24

42.86%

57.14%

100.00%

21st July
1858
Ale X
Mild

1065.10

11.00

3.32

43.75%

56.25%

100.00%

27th July
1858
Ale X
Mild

1064.82

11.00

3.27

41.18%

58.82%

100.00%

3rd Aug
1858
Ale X
Mild

1064.82

11.00

3.27

41.18%

58.82%

100.00%

31st Dec
1858
Ale X
Mild

1064.82

8.00

2.40

100.00%

100.00%

9th Apr
1867
Ale X
Mild

1063.16

7.38

2.17

88.37%

11.63%

100.00%

12th Apr
1867
Ale X
Mild

1062.60

7.43

2.19

86.96%

13.04%

100.00%

17th Apr
1867
Ale X
Mild

1062.60

7.44

2.28

86.67%

13.33%

100.00%

20th Apr
1867
Ale X
Mild

1063.71

7.44

2.23

86.49%

13.51%

100.00%

23rd Apr
1867
Ale X
Mild

1062.33

7.41

2.23

87.50%

12.50%

100.00%

26th Apr
1867
Ale X
Mild

1062.60

7.39

2.20

88.24%

11.76%

100.00%

28th May
1867
Ale X
Mild

1062.05

7.00

2.08

100.00%

100.00%

31st May
1867
Ale X
Mild

1061.77

7.16

2.17

95.24%

4.76%

100.00%

4th June
1867
Ale X
Mild

1063.71

7.50

2.13

100.00%

100.00%

7th June
1867
Ale X
Mild

1062.05

7.50

2.21

100.00%

100.00%

23rd July
1867
Ale X
Mild

1065.93

10.00

3.10

97.82%

2.18%

100.00%

26th July
1867
Ale X
Mild

1065.37

10.00

3.03

95.40%

4.60%

100.00%

30th July
1867
Ale X
Mild

1065.10

10.00

3.06

91.90%

3.05%

5.05%

100.00%

2nd Aug
1867
Ale X
Mild

1063.99

10.26

3.25

91.47%

3.22%

5.32%

100.00%

9th Feb
1858
Ale XX
Mild

1078.95

10.00

100.00%

100.00%

26th July
1867
Ale XX
Mild

1076.45

10.00

3.54

95.40%

4.60%

100.00%

30th July
1867
Ale XX
Mild

1078.95

10.00

3.71

91.90%

3.05%

5.05%

100.00%

Source:
Courage brewing records held at the London Metropolitan Archives

I've just the moment noticed something significant. Something which confirms muy policy of photographing multiple versions of the same beer . Want to know what it is? Look at the first 12 rows. Have you seen it?

I've read advice in brewing manuals about increasing the hopping rate in the summer, but never seen it so well illustrated as here. The hopping rate is 9 pounds per quarter of malt for the first 6 winter entries, then 11 pounds for the next five summer entries.

But that isn't the significant discovery. Oh no. That's a few columns to the right. Brown malt. This is the earliest (a couple of X Ales with tiny amounts of black malt excepted) I've seen any coloured malt in an X Ale. Though it's not a huge amount, it must have had some impact on the finished beer's colour. Maybe the homebrewers amongst you can work out much.

I'd thought Mild started getting darker a bit later, closer to 1880. Yet again, I was wrong.https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...s.blogspot.com


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