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A final Mild recipe for Mild Month. OK, it’s one day into June, but I couldn’t resist.

Especially as it’s another Tetley recipe. F, which I’m pretty sure stands for Family Ale. A bottled beer I remember from my time living in Leeds. In those days it looked very much like a bottled version of their Mild.


This one is an, er, interesting recipe. With grits making up 25% of the fermentables. Plus a tiny little bit of chocolate malt. And South American sugar. “Peru” is how it’s described. That’s another 18% of the grist. Making it pretty low on malt. Sure it tastes lovely, mind. It is a Tetley beer, after all.

When this was brewed, 30th October 1919, it would have counted as a 5d beer:

Price control 1917-1921
Oct 1917 Apr 1918 Feb 1919 Jul 1919 Apr 1920
2d
3d 1020-1026
4d 1023-1028 1027-1032 1020-1026
5d 1036-1042 1030-1034 1029-1034 1033-1038 1027-1032
6d 1035-1041 1039-1045 1033-1038
7d 1042-1049 1045-1053 1039-1045
8d >1050 >1054 1045-1053
9d >1054
Sources:
The Brewers' Almanack 1928 pages 100 - 101.
"The British Brewing Industry 1830-1980"


F was parti-gyled with X at 1027.1 and X1 at 1041.3, meaning they were 4d and 6d beers, respectively.

Tetley continued to brew F up to 1940. It always had a gravity of around 1034.


1919 Tetley F
pale malt 1.50 lb 21.74%
mild malt 2.25 lb 32.61%
chocolate Malt 0.15 lb 2.17%
grits 1.75 lb 25.36%
demerera sugar 1.25 lb 18.12%
Cluster 90 mins 0.50 oz
Fuggles 30 mins 0.75 oz
OG 1033.8
FG 1010.2
ABV 3.12
Apparent attenuation 69.82%
IBU 21
SRM 7
Mash at 151º F
Sparge at 165º F
Boil time 90 minutes
pitching temp 65º F
Yeast Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire Ale Timothy Taylor


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