Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Let's Brew - 1914 Crowley AK
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As far as beer ranges go, Crowley’s is pretty confusing. Making AK a welcome, understandable sight.
The OG is right where I would expect a pre-war AK to be: somewhere in the mid-1040ºs. I keep finding new AK’s from this period. But the war was not kind to them. As they were often a brewery’s weakest Pale Ale, they disappeared as strengths fell and what had been posher beers took their gravity slot.
The recipe, which consists of just pale malt and No. 3 invert sugar, is almost Whitbread-like in its simplicity. Though it is odd to see No. 3 in a Bitter. The colour is a little on the dark side, but not crazily so. I’ve other brews which use No. 2 instead of No. 3. It all depends on what AK was being parti-gyled with. This one was brewed with L, others with B. It’s the L parti-gyles that have the No. 3.
The hops are English from 1912 and 1913 plus Oregon from 1913. Given the age of some of the hops, I’ve reduced the quantity.
| 1914 Crowley AK |
| pale malt |
10.00 lb |
93.02% |
| No. 3 invert sugar |
0.75 lb |
6.98% |
| Cluster 120 mins |
0.75 oz |
|
| Fuggles 90 mins |
0.50 oz |
|
| Goldings 30 mins |
0.50 oz |
|
| Goldings dry hops |
0.25 oz |
|
| OG |
1047 |
|
| FG |
1011 |
|
| ABV |
4.76 |
|
| Apparent attenuation |
76.60% |
|
| IBU |
28 |
|
| SRM |
8 |
|
| Mash at |
148º F |
|
| Sparge at |
160º F |
|
| Boil time |
120 minutes |
|
| pitching temp |
60º F |
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| Yeast |
Wyeast 1275 Thames Valley ale |
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