Reddit reviews The Home Brewer's Guide to Vintage Beer: Rediscovered Recipes for Classic Brews Dating from 1800 to 1965
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Mine was kind of extreme by today's standards. It's the recipe from William Younger's 1885 version of Younger's XP. From Ron Patinson's Vintage Beers Book. http://www.amazon.com/Home-Brewers-Guide-Vintage-Beer/dp/1592538827
We had him come to our LHBS in Toronto and taste a bunch of recipes we had brewed from his book. 6 oz of hops before 30 minutes and none after, was really surprised how much hop flavour came through. 100% pale malt too, guess that is how they brewed in the 1800's.
This. Pattinson has thoroughly debunked the IPA's English/India travel idea. His book on Vintage Beer contains more than a few olde-timey IPA recipes: not especially high octane. Lots of good evidence in his blog, his books, and his collaborative recipes.
If you could find a more well-read, well-traveled, or more meticulous beer-historian we'd all be in your debt. Ignoring him leaves you far less educated about the subject. Between Cornell and Pattinson you've got it so deeply, distressingly covered that brewerguy's quibbles really shouldn't carry much weight.
The Homebrewer's Guide to Vintage Beer recommends WLP029 Kolsch. Everything I've read about the style says to use a clean ale yeast, so I guess you could US05 is you fermented it cool.