AG#16 - 1885 Younger's XP

[Dr Mike]

Brewing this one today.

http://barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... er-xp.html
(also in "The Home Brewer's Guide to Vintage Beer")

Here is the Beersmith version

Youngers XP (1885)

Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 23.50 l
Boil Size: 33.56 l
Boil Time: 90 min

5800.00 g Pale Malt, (Golden Promise) (5.0 EBC) Grain 1 100.0 %
57.00 g Cluster [8.60 %] - Boil 90.0 min Hop 2 55.3 IBUs
57.00 g Spalter [5.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 3 32.2 IBUs
57.00 g Goldings, East Kent [6.50 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 4 21.3 IBUs
1.0 pkg Edinburgh Ale (White Labs #WLP028) [35.49 ml] Yeast 5 -
43.00 g Spalter [5.00 %] - Dry Hop 14.0 Days Hop 6 0.0 IBUs

Est Original Gravity: 1.054 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.013 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.3 %
Bitterness: 108.8 IBUs
Est Color: 8.4 EBC

Mash Profile

Mash Name: Single Infusion, Medium Body, No Mash Out
Sparge Water: 27.77 l
Sparge Temperature: 75.6 C

Mash In Add 11.60 l of water at 75.1 C 66.0 C 90 min

Sparge: Fly sparge with 27.77 l water at 75.6 C

Created with BeerSmith

Rather Un-interesting Grain Shot

 

[Good Ed]

Good luck with it Dr M. I did this in January and it's now had 5 weeks in the bottle. The full malt and bitterness has mellowed, still hints of tangerine and a bitterness that lingers, although it is not quite bright. I used EKG to dry hop and Brewlab Borders, which is the same McEwan's strain. I'm just having a sample each week and want to keep as many as possible for 3 months, and might even put it in TST. The 1868 XP is interesting with Saaz, but my next Youngers will be the 1868 No 3.

 

[Dr Mike]

Thanks Ed. Glad to hear your's has turned out great.

The No.3 looks like a monster!

 

[Good Ed]

The No.3 looks like a monster!

not quite the monster that is No 1 :lol: but No 3 has the IBU's of the 1885 XP but at OG 1077, so will be more balanced, but yes still a monster :shock:

 

[Dr Mike]

All done.

Missed OG target by a couple of points but got the full volume. Found a small stone in the bottom of the boiler. Guess it must have been in the hops. Been through the boil so shouldn't be an infection risk.

Final wort sample

 

[Good Ed]

nice and clear, well done :thumb:

 

[caerleon]

Watching this one with interest as im a decendant of William Younger.