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Now I’ve started I may as well finish the full set of low-gravity Shepherd Neame Pale Ales. And this is the weakest of the set.
In fact, it has the lowest gravity you’ll ever see in post-WW I beers. No-one brewed a beer below 1027º because however low the gravity was, the minimum beer duty was set at 1027º. It made no sense to make a weaker beer as you’d be paying the tax for a 1027º beer anyway. It the late 1940’s you see quite a few beers at this minimum level. Shepherd Neame had three: this, Mild and Stout.
LDA was always parti-gyled with something else. In this case BB, the one step up Pale Ale. Interestingly, this recipe is different from the single-gyle brew of BB in that it contains No. 3 invert sugar. And quite a bit of it: 20% of the grist. Which means the BB from this brew must have been darker in colour.
Or did it? Just had a closer look at the brewing record. It clearly shows that all the No. 3 was in the second copper with the weaker wort. And the BB only had 6 barrels (of 121 in total) from the second wort. Meaning the No. 3 was really only in the LDA. Ah, the joys of parti-gyling.
For some reason LDA is always written in red in the brewing books. Why is that? At first I thought it may have been because it was a bottled beer. But surely the Stout was only bottled, too. And that isn’t written in red ink. Bit of a mystery, that one. Red ink usually indicates something unusual, something that changed in that brew or something that went wrong.
There can’t have been a huge amount of drunkenness in the late 1940’s, judging by the strength of most beers. I doubt anyone over the age of 8 could get pissed on this one.
Almost forgot to tell you what style this is. It’s a Light Ale. LDA usually stands for “Light Dinner Ale” which around this time was shortened to just Light Ale.
1947 Shepherd Neame LDA |
pale malt |
3.75 lb |
67.57% |
flaked barley |
1.00 lb |
18.02% |
no. 3 sugar |
0.75 lb |
13.51% |
malt extract |
0.05 lb |
0.90% |
Fuggles 120 mins |
0.50 oz |
|
Goldings 30 mins |
0.50 oz |
|
OG |
1027.1 |
|
FG |
1007.2 |
|
ABV |
2.63 |
|
Apparent attenuation |
73.43% |
|
IBU |
15 |
|
SRM |
8 |
|
Mash at |
151º F |
|
Sparge at |
170º F |
|
Boil time |
120 minutes |
|
pitching temp |
62.75º F |
|
Yeast |
a Southern English Ale yeast |
|
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