Jim's Beer Kit

You know ... I sit and babble this stuff out thinking "surely no-one will read this?" but then I'm only doing my normal trick of thinking aloud. My way of evolving my thoughts into something usable. At least - I fool myself - it wont get read my ignorant trolls who will hound me with foul-mouthed ab...

One subject I could not resolve was the colour of "Mild Ale". Ron Pattinson does mention "Only after 1900 did X Ale start becoming darker. At first it was the use of crystal and amber malts." (https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2008/05/short-history-of-mild.html). I managed to glean a few bits that...

Some more on brown malt. >This guy< goes to the trouble of growing barley and malting the result. A piccie of his finished result:

The next piccie is of my "emulation" (right) next to modern brown malt:

Just to be irritating ...

I've rehashed my graph to illustrate what using "modern" brown malt will do to the recipe:

Convinced?

Whitbread's Porter (1849) FULL.JPG Beersmith "worksheets". Using my Grainfather (a small-scale trial run then!) in "no sparge" (full boil volume mash) mode and pushing it to get 25L in the keg (much messing about with kettle and fermenter top-ups to make it fit). The water treatment (GW's "porter" ...

Right, you should have your list of malts and their relative amounts (in whatever units you cared to use, lets say pink-elephants). And you'll have a total for all the bins. Convert each to a percentage (bit of simple math), <size-of-bin> ÷ <total-of-all-bins> x 100. I put all these in a temporary r...

A primary objective for this thread was to develop my original contrived brown malt formulation to replace the "modern" brown malt used in many historical (19th Century) recipes. "Modern" brown malt wasn't used in any quantity until the 20th Century as insurance for malt houses using the old techniq...

I have carved off the "Mild Ale" discussion to >here< . So this thread can concentrate on Porter. So, back to Porter! An original goal was find a recipe for a "Victorian" era porter that wasn't so harsh as the "Whitbread's 1850 London Porter" put out by the Durden Park Beer Circle. I'd made their "1...

Okay, I think I have this "mild" definition figured. Simply by accepting Ron Pattinson's view! Hooray ... ? Except a lot of people are not accepting his definition and Ron doesn't seem to bother much that people are abusing his point-of-view. So there is no "mild". It's all a messing about with "sem...

Here's the sort of conundrum I want to avoid in defining "Mild ale": Edd posted a historical Porter recipe on his Blog site recently: https://oldbeersandbrewing.blogspot.com/2020/07/beamish-crawford-running-porter.html . Cracking looking recipe. But contains some anomalies. It's a "running" porter, ...

A while ago I started a thread Historic Porter's, Stouts and Milds - Brewing Methods not realising the subject of Mild would be so convoluted. So I'm paring it off here so I can leave the old thread concentrating on Porter while this one can collect thoughts on Mild without the two subjects confusin...

I've been a bit remiss by not posting this earlier, but the following was posted on other forums as a synopsis of Ron Pattinson's research and views ... Thanks "Good Ed". I said I wasn't going to enter further discussion on "Mild" until I'd got the bit on Porter out the way. But it's worth high-lig...

I'd started the thread "Historic Porter's, Stouts and Milds - Brewing Methods" without realising what a sticky subject one of these was and should of kept it separate in it's own thread. And I don't mean "Porter" (or Stout). So where have I got to with "Mild" (watch out! This is a whopper*): I inclu...

Ok, let’s keep it on topic gents. Apologies for my contribution to letting the topic slip, and it's me who's usually moaning about my threads (this is one of my threads!) being dragged off topic! But I was drying up on ideas and information to take the mild discussion much further, the topic was un...

guypettigrew wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:10 pm

What?! It's a cat chasing a laser light. Cute, but surely not what you intended us to see!

"Distracted!". 'Fraid it was what I intended you to watch. You might need a twisted mind ... but as you can see, I've got competition!