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Another exciting beer from the colourful late 1940’s. Only joking. I realise the period was as grey as its beers were watery.
This is so exciting. Because this is a beer I drank quite often, it being one of Younger’s main cask beers. Though it was sold under different names: 70/- in Scotland, Scotch in England. It seems to have been introduced just after WW I, possibly as a reaction to the drop in gravity of their former flagship Pale Ale, XXP. Post-war, XXP became 60/-. So a beer which had originally been an IPA, ended up as Dark Mild. Now there’s a weird transformation. But I digress.
On paper, this looks very similar to the beer I drank in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The gravity, 1037º, is identical. Though I suspect the recipe was rather different by then. I can’t imagine that they continued to use flaked barley. I wonder if they went back to grits when maize became available again?
I know from a 1960 document that XXPS came in three different colours: 5, 6 and 9 SRM. The first was the as-brewed number, which is pretty close to the figure BeerSmith spat out.
Not much else to say, other than that this looks like an archetypal post-war Ordinary Bitter. Maybe the bitterness is a little below average.
1949 William Younger Pale XXPS |
pale malt |
7.25 lb |
85.29% |
flaked barley |
1.25 lb |
14.71% |
Fuggles 90 min |
0.50 oz |
|
Fuggles 60 min |
0.50 oz |
|
Fuggles 30 min |
0.50 oz |
|
Goldings dry hops |
0.25 oz |
|
OG |
1037 |
|
FG |
1011 |
|
ABV |
3.44 |
|
Apparent attenuation |
70.27% |
|
IBU |
21 |
|
SRM |
4 |
|
Mash at |
153º F |
|
Sparge at |
160º F |
|
Boil time |
75 minutes |
|
pitching temp |
62º F |
|
Yeast |
WLP028 Edinburgh Ale |
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