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08-03-2012, 09:36
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I'm quite surprised that no-one really got this. I wasn't after anything complicated.

Take a look again:


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What does it tell us? The proportion of Bitter to Mild that Boddington's brewed. To be very specific, the proportion of Bitter to Mild in November 1985. Though there was no way for you to have known the date.

1031º is the Mild. And 1034º the Bitter. All the other entries are, as Barm said, primings. Upon which tax obviously had to be paid. The column on the right gives the quantities in standard hectolitres (a hectolitre of beer at 1055º - that's why the numbers aren't just the number of litres divided by 100, Gary).

I'm slightly surprised at how little Mild they brewed. According to Statistical Handbook of the British Beer & Pub Association 2005, p. 17, 6.4% of beer sold in the UK in 1985 was Mild.So they were above the national average. But that includes the large swathes of the South where Mild was already a rarity. I would have expected more like 20% Mild.

Here are the numbers in tidy table form:





litres
barrels
%


mild
256,889
1,570
9.04%


bitter
2,586,227
15,803
90.96%


total
2,843,116
17,373
100.00%


Source:





Boddingtons brewing records held at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester.




The previous page also gives totals for materials used. Which I can use to calculate average hopping rates. So that's what I've done:




barrels brewed
18,694


malt
2,258


hops
13,020


hops lbs/barrel
0.70


hops lbs/qtr
5.77


Source:



Boddingtons brewing records held at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester.



In case you're wondering, the difference in barrelage is due to losses during the brewing process. The number in the first table is excise barrels, in the second barrels brewed.

Did Boddingtons only brew two beers? In this period, yes. They aren't the most exciting brewing records I've seen.https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5445569787371915337-1413996901323802171?l=barclayperkins.blogspot.com


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