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Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Let's Brew 1941 Fullers PA (Special)
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Following on from yesterday's post about odd over-strength versions of Fuller PA, here's a recipe for one of them. A tiny parti-gyle of PA that was way stronger than the normal version of the beer. You have to go back to the 1890s, when it was still called IPA, to find a version as strong as this.
Which begs the question: who was it brewed for? It seems to be a one-off and there were only 9.75 barrels of it, in a total parti-gyle of over 500 barrels. Was it brewed for a special event? For a specific customer? Who knows? It is intriguing.
It is about when Fullers dropped all their pre-war Pale Ales – PA, XK and AK – and replaced them with a new low-gravity beer called PA No. 2. Perhaps this was brewed to mourn the passing of full-strength Pale Ale.
There are some other odd features to this brew. Like the lack of any adjunct – it’s just malt and sugar. Which definitely how Fullers brewed. Their beers always contained some sort of adjunct. Pre-war it was flaked maize, during the war mostly flaked barley. The modest amount of sugar employed means that the grist is over 95% malt. Very odd in a wartime beer.
The hops were, of course, all English, most from the 1940 harvest, but also with 20% from 1938. 1940 English hops are a bit of a rarity, a third of the crop having been destroyed in a single air raid in September of that year.
1941 Fullers PA (Special) |
pale malt |
12.25 lb |
96.88% |
No. 2 invert sugar |
0.25 lb |
1.98% |
glucose |
0.125 lb |
0.99% |
caramel 1000 SRM |
0.02 lb |
0.16% |
Fuggles 90 min |
1.50 oz |
|
Goldings 30 min |
1.50 oz |
|
Goldings dry hops |
0.75 oz |
|
OG |
1056.5 |
|
FG |
1017.5 |
|
ABV |
5.16 |
|
Apparent attenuation |
69.03% |
|
IBU |
36 |
|
SRM |
7 |
|
Mash at |
147º F |
|
After underlet |
150º F |
|
Sparge at |
170º F |
|
Boil time |
90 minutes |
|
pitching temp |
61º F |
|
Yeast |
WLP002 English Ale |
|
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