SpinMaster
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I was allowed to view some historic ledgers in an effort to recreate brews from the days of yore. There are a few things that I can't quite figure out what they mean and I was wondering what you all thought. A few column headers that don't make a lot of sense to me are:
- Caramel lbs
- Were they using caramel extract for colour in 1908 or do you think that means caramel malt?
- BPG cwts
- I know that cwts means hundred weight. (100 lbs in US, 112 lbs in UK) But any ideas what BPG stands for?
- Sacch cwts, with hand written glucose
- I assume this is simple brewing sugar
- Malt, New and Old
- No clue what new and old malt means. One idea I had was new malt is the most recent crop while old was last years harvest. But in a lot of other pages they have the what I assume is stock written in the top of the old colomn, but they aren't using it. I would think if they had stock of last years harvest they would use that first.
- Pat. malt
- I assume this is black patent malt, however the notes written within the column make no sense to me. 4.2.3, 2.0.2, 5.3.3.
- Ht of mash and Ht of Alm.
- No clue