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As you can see, we’re still stuck on 60/-. Why? Don’t ask me. I’ve started so I’ll finish. Isn’t that reason enough?

This looks very much like 60 Bob as I knew it in my youth. As watery as a Mild and pretty much the same colour. In this case, not even quite 3% ABV. But what about the colour? The recipe says just 10 SRM. Isn’t that much paler than a Mild? Well, this is a Scottish beer, remember? It would have been coloured up with caramel at racking to various colours. Often to around 20 SRM.

There was another version called Keg Light, which was identical to this beer with one exception: it received no dry hops.

The grist is pretty simple: pale malt, flaked maize and a tiny amount of black malt. The latter presumably purely for colour. In addition, there were quite a few sugars: Colour, invert, Avona and CME. For those, I’ve substituted No. 2 and No. 3 invert.

Three types of English copper hops and one of English dry hops. With no indication of vintage or region. I’ve gone with Goldings and Fuggles.
1960 Drybrough 60/-
pale malt 5.00 lb 75.36%
black malt 0.01 lb 0.15%
flaked maize 0.75 lb 11.30%
No. 2 invert sugar 0.75 lb 11.30%
No. 3 invert sugar 0.13 lb 1.88%
Fuggles 90 min 0.50 oz
Fuggles 60 min 0.50 oz
Goldings 30 min 0.25 oz
Goldings dry hops 0.50 oz
OG 1031
FG 1010
ABV 2.78
Apparent attenuation 67.74%
IBU 17
SRM 10
Mash at 144 / 159º F
Sparge at 165º F
Boil time 90 minutes
pitching temp 61.5º F
Yeast WLP028 Edinburgh Ale



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