Let's Brew Wednesday - 1911 Eldridge Pope X

Part of the unusual parti-gyle with the Pale Ale above was this Mild Ale. Now, you may be asking why the ingredients aren’t the same. The answer is simple: The Pale Ale was pretty much all first wort and a couple of the sugars were only added to the second and third coppers.

All of which means that, despite being weaker, this beer is significantly darker than the Pale Ale. Being what I would class as semi-dark. Which is quite typical for Mild Ales of the period. Few were fully dark before WW I.

The hops are also different as the first and second coppers were hopped quite differently. While the first copper had five different types of English hops, the second had two types of English hops and one of Oregon.

With a gravity of just 1036º, this isn’t that far away from a modern Mild. And is much weaker than a London Mild Ale, which would have had a gravity over 1050º. 

1911 Eldridge Pope X
pale malt	6.25 lb	81.22%
flaked maize	0.375 lb	4.87%
No. 2 invert sugar	0.75 lb	9.75%
No. 3 invert sugar	0.25 lb	3.25%
caramel 1000 SRM	0.07 lb	0.91%
Cluster 120 mins	0.75 oz
Fuggles 60 mins	0.75 oz
Goldings 30 mins	0.75 oz
OG	1036
FG	1009
ABV	3.57
Apparent attenuation	75.00%
IBU	37
SRM	11
Mash at	152º F
Sparge at	165º F
Boil time	120 minutes
pitching temp	60º F
Yeast	White Labs WLP099 Super High Gravity