The first historical recreation from Pretty Things. February 27th, 1832 is a London XXXX Mild Ale first brewed on Brick Lane. It is a 10.5% alcohol beer: golden coloured, with Kent Golding leaf hops. It was brewed without refrigeration, and we followed the original brewday document, as collected by brewing historian Ron Pattinson.
Breweries in London at that time were enormous: our batch is a drop in the size of the batch that was originally brewed. In those days, it was common to use a LOT of hops: ours has around 4.5lb/bbl, but it was not unheard of to use a ton of hops in a single brew: insane.
