Eric wrote: ↑Sun Jan 15, 2023 12:18 pm
You will get your 10000 hits PeeBee, don't you worry. I'm convinced you will find much more to add in weeks to come, but if the next milestone was to be 100000, that would be a lot harder of course. ...
Well, this thread did get it't 10,000 hits, as you predicted. Trouble is: Wrong thread! This one has been around 21 months or so, it's the
Beers (late 19th Century and 20th Century) one that I had dreamed of getting 10K in less than a year. Only a week left to get 2000 hits on that thread ... not going to happen really!
My own fault. I've not been very active on this forum, or brewing beer! I do need to summarise the stuff on Invert Sugars in that thread having come around to brewing a couple of Edwardian delights (excavated from brewery records by Ron Pattinson) only to find that I
can't find my "recipes" for the necessary "Invert Sugars".
On this thread I need to summarise the stuff on 19th C. "brown malt" to get some 19th C. Porter on the go. For next Xmas! About time I started introducing "Brettanomyces" to get an approximation of "vatted" Porter that was so popular mid-19th C. It will also have been blended with 2/3rds "mild" Porter (i.e. not aged/vatted) before delivering to the Pubs. Hopefully, I can side-step that "blown" caper for the brown malt ... not only will it be a PITA to emulate, but apparently it wasn't so good though popular in London breweries because most was made nearby in Bedfordshire (more digging by RP).
I'd really like to repeat the c.1850 Whitbread Porter recipe. So popular for home brew because of Durden Park B.C.'s published recipe which I've said before seems to have got very distorted over time. RP has only in the last few days covered the period in his blog (in connection with his up-coming "Stout!" book):
Whitbread Porter grists 1805 - 1940 (note the 1850 recipe ... only 3.3% black malt).
[EDIT: That link to 18th/20th C. Beer starts off with making Invert Sugar by the popular way of caramelising sugar syrup. The thread later ridicules this "method", for being utterly nonsense. I need to summarise the alternative method ... which is much closer to being "historically" correct, and also just happens to follow the Ragus technique.]