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Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Barclay Perkins X Ale grists 1935 - 1936
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As promised, here are the Barclay Perkins grists. Well, some of them.
I’ve decided to split them up to make the tables a bit more manageable, I’m kicking off with X Ale. Basically standing in for all of their Milds. Because X Ale was in all of the Mild parti-gyles and sometimes single-gyled.
When I started harvesting these records I was struck by how much the grists changed over a short period of time. Without there being external factor, like a war, forcing changes. I’m not really sure what to make of it. For example, why does one version randomly contain some lager malt?
Let’s take a look at the grains first. There are several ever-presents: pale, amber, crystal and mild malt, plus flaked maize. But only the pale and crystal malt percentages are reasonably constant at around 20% and 5%, respectively. While amber malt and flaked maize are all over the place, with a variation of over 100%.
Barclay Perkins X Ale grists 1935 - 1936 (malts) |
Year |
Beer |
Style |
OG |
pale malt |
amber malt |
crystal malt |
MA malt |
SA malt |
lager malt |
flaked maize |
1935 |
X |
Mild |
1034.8 |
23.55% |
9.42% |
6.28% |
37.68% |
|
|
17.27% |
1935 |
X |
Mild |
1034.8 |
18.37% |
7.65% |
5.36% |
43.62% |
|
|
15.31% |
1936 |
X |
Mild |
1034.7 |
18.66% |
7.11% |
5.33% |
29.32% |
14.22% |
|
14.22% |
1936 |
X |
Mild |
1034.7 |
19.03% |
3.81% |
5.71% |
41.86% |
|
5.71% |
13.32% |
1936 |
X |
Mild |
1034.8 |
19.23% |
4.05% |
5.06% |
32.40% |
16.20% |
|
7.09% |
1936 |
X |
Mild |
1034.8 |
19.42% |
3.88% |
5.18% |
33.02% |
16.19% |
|
7.12% |
Sources: |
Barclay Perkins brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number ACC/2305/01/620. |
There’s a similar story with the sugar:
Barclay Perkins X Ale grists 1935 - 1936 (sugar and hops) |
Year |
Beer |
Style |
OG |
no. 2 sugar |
no. 3 sugar |
caramel |
Martineau BS |
hops |
1935 |
X |
Mild |
1034.8 |
5.23% |
|
0.58% |
|
MK Fuggles, Kent Fuggles |
1935 |
X |
Mild |
1034.8 |
9.18% |
|
0.51% |
|
MK Fuggles, Kent Fuggles |
1936 |
X |
Mild |
1034.7 |
|
|
0.48% |
10.66% |
MK Fuggles, Kent Fuggles |
1936 |
X |
Mild |
1034.7 |
|
10.15% |
0.41% |
|
Kent, MK Goldings |
1936 |
X |
Mild |
1034.8 |
|
15.52% |
0.45% |
|
MK Fuggles, MK Goldings |
1936 |
X |
Mild |
1034.8 |
|
14.68% |
0.50% |
|
MK Fuggles |
Sources: |
Barclay Perkins brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number ACC/2305/01/620. |
The only sugar used in every grist was caramel, which was used for colour. I would have expected No. 3 invert to be in all the grists. That’s the usual Mild sugar. It seems odd to find No. 2 invert, which was usually used in cheaper Pale Ales.
All of the hops were English and from Kent. Mostly Fuggles, but with some Goldings, too. Nothing unusual there, though a lot of brewers would have been using North American hops in the 1930’s.
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