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Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Fuller's Pale Ales 1887 - 1910
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Pale Ales. I've been meaning to write more about them. Mostly because I'm trying to fill up a book. Today we're looking at the ones from Fullers.
Alphabet soup. That's what Fuller's Pale Ales remind me of. But with mostly only A's, K's and X's.
Fuller's Pale Ales 1887 - 1910
Date
Year
Beer
Style
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl
boil time (hours)
boil time (hours)
Pitch temp
pale malt
black malt
no. 2 sugar
no. 3 sugar
caramel
other sugar
flaked maize
primings
21st Apr
1887
AK
Pale Ale
8th Aug
1887
AK
Pale Ale
13th Apr
1887
IPA
IPA
27th Apr
1887
IPA
IPA
8th Aug
1887
XK
Pale Ale
4th May
1887
XKK
Pale Ale
20th Mar
1888
AK
Pale Ale
10th Mar
1888
AKK
Pale Ale
7th Jan
1888
XKK
Pale Ale
3rd Aug
1897
AK
Pale Ale
5th May
1897
AKK
Pale Ale
24th Jul
1897
IPA
IPA
5th May
1897
IPA
IPA
3rd Aug
1897
KA
Pale Ale
24th Jul
1897
XK
Pale Ale
5th May
1897
XK
Pale Ale
31st May
1898
AK
Pale Ale
26th May
1898
AK
Pale Ale
28th Mar
1898
AK
Pale Ale
14th May
1898
IPA
IPA
23rd Apr
1898
IPA
IPA
8th Feb
1898
IPA
IPA
11th Apr
1898
IPA Stock
IPA
21st May
1898
KA
Pale Ale
4th May
1898
KA
Pale Ale
14th May
1898
XK
Pale Ale
23rd Apr
1898
XK
Pale Ale
8th Feb
1898
XK
Pale Ale
20th Oct
1902
AK
Pale Ale
29th Aug
1902
IPA
IPA
26th Nov
1902
IPA
IPA
28th Nov
1902
XK for Xmas
Pale Ale
14th Mar
1910
AK
Pale Ale
18th Mar
1910
AK
Pale Ale
11th Mar
1910
PA
Pale Ale
7th Apr
1910
PA
Pale Ale
Source:
Fuller's brewing records.
Let's look at 1887 first. Fuller's were brewing 5 Pale Ales:
AKK 1049.9 2.53 lbs hops per barrel
AK 1050.4 2.80
XK 1057.1 2.84
XKK 1059.6 2.92
IPA 1060.9 3.45
Except that the IPA was a bit more heavily hopped than the others, there's no real difference between them. There are only 11 gravity points between the strongest and the weakest. You know what it reminds me of? A modern British brewery's range of beers, with several Bitters of only slightly differeing gravities. Only they would be about 15 points weaker.
Ten years later, and there have been a few changes. XKK is gone and there;'s a new, low-gravity beer, KA:
KA 1036.6 2.09 lbs hops per barrel
AK 1049.9 2.85
AKK 1050.4 2.80
XK 1054.8 3.27
IPA 1057.6 3.20
The XK and IPA have lost a couple of gravity points, but otherwise there's been little change.
Into the new century and the range has been slimmed down. Only three Pale Ales remain:
AK 1046.3 1.68 lbs hops per barrel
IPA 1054 2.36
XK 1054 2.41
Both the AK and IPA have dropped in gravity and the hopping rates for all the beers have decreased.
By 1910, only two Pale Ales remain:
AK 1045 1.43 lbs hops per barrel
PA 1054 2.15
The gravities are much the same as in 1902, but the hopping rates have fallen again. Oh, and see how IPA has suddenly been rebadged PA. Though it looks like the same beer to me.
The grists are, well, pretty dull. Just pale malt and various sugars until the appearance of flaked maize after 1900. The sugar content was pretty stable at around 20% of the grist. That's about average for beers of the period. Pale Ales often had the highest sugar content, presumably to keep them relatively dry.
Notice how crystal malt, so typical of modern British Bitters, is totally absent. Before WW I, crystal malt was rarely used in anything other than Mild Ales.
When I've had time to transcribe some more of Fuller's logs, I'll continue through WW I and beyond.
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