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18-06-2012, 12:12
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All those court cases and dodgy prospectuses are giving me a thirst. Time to take a look and the products of Edinburgh United Breweries.

I just noticed something weird about these beers. They were all brewed in the period when Edinburgh United Breweries were defrauding the revenue by brewing in secret. Were any of these beers, I wonder, brewed that way? It's a definite possibility.

Let's start with the Brown Ale. With a gravity of the mid 1050's, it's definitely not a Southern Brown Ale. Looks more like a Double Brown to me. I'd love to know what the beer was like. Were Scottish Brown Ales like English ones? Given the business they did in the Northeast of England, it's tempting to think that they must have been similar to Newcastle Brown or Vaux Double Maxim

I've got an analysis of Newcastle Brown from 1931: OG 1056, FG 1014, colour 62. It looks pretty similar to the EUB beer, except for the colour, which was paler. And an analysis of Vaux Double Maxim tells me that had an OG of 1053.2 and an FG of 1009.3. On the face of it, all three look quite similar.

Now for the Pale Ales. I'm still trying to get my head around the naming conventions in Scotland between the wars. Most of the 90/- Pale Ales I've seen were weaker than this one. Usually in the low to mid 1030's. And Export usually was used for something stronger than 1040º. I'm all confused.

Finally we've Disher's Ten Guinea Ale. A real beast of a beer. Amazing that they sold the stuff on draught. I assume that they didn't sell it in pints. Even I would struggle to get down more than one. It's quite well attenuated for a beer with an OG north of 1100º.



Edinburgh United Breweries beers 1926 - 1934


Year
Brewer
Beer
Style
Price
size
package
FG
OG
colour
ABV
App. Atten-uation


1929
EUB
Export
Pale Ale

pint
bottled
1008
1040
40
4.16
80.00%


1931
EUB
Brown Ale
Brown Ale

pint
bottled
1015
1055
92
5.20
72.73%


1931
EUB
Brown Ale
Brown Ale
3.5d
nip
bottled
1014
1056
65
5.46
75.00%


1931
EUB
Brown Ale
Brown Ale
6d
half
bottled
1015
1055
75
5.20
72.73%


1933
EUB
90/- Pale Ale
Pale Ale

pint
bottled
1007
1040

4.29
82.50%


1934
EUB
Pale Ale
Pale Ale

pint
draught
1013
1037

3.17
66.22%


1926
Disher
Ten Guinea Draught Ale
Strong Ale
20d
pint
draught
1035
1115.4

10.61
70.10%


1927
Disher
£10.10/- (10 guinea)
Strong Ale

pint
bottled
1029
1114
130
11.20
74.56%


1928
Disher
Strong Ale
Strong Ale

pint
bottled
1027
1104
120
10.11
74.04%


1931
Disher
Strong Ale
Strong Ale

pint
bottled
1033
1091

7.53
63.74%


Sources:


Thomas Usher Gravity Book document TU/6/11 held at the Scottish Brewing Archive


Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001


Younger, Wm. & Co Gravity Book document WY/6/1/1/19 held at the Scottish Brewing Archive



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