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As promised, here are those Usher grists from the 1930's. What can I say? Intriguing sugar combinations. At least in the beers other than Pale Ale

Let's start with the Pale Ales, as they're so dull. The grists for all of them are identical, as they were all parti-gyled together. The small difference in the table are just discrepancies in individual batches. To me it looks very like an 1890's Pale Ale grist: just pale malt, invert sugar and flaked maize. Very dull, really. I'm not sure what to say except "Look at the absence of crystal malt again". Crystal malt in Pale Ales is much more recent than generally believed.

Now we've only the sugar babes left. I've seen some sugary beers in my time, but nothing quite like these ones. The Mild, Brown Ale and Stout all contain 5 types of sugar. Barbados and penang are presumably types of cane sugar. CDM is some sort of dark proprietary sugar, as is Caramax. Not sure about DF. Some other type of proprietary sugar.

I'm not sure I've come across a Stout with no type of roasted malt before. You have to wonder how Stout-like it was, especially as it was parti-gyled with the Mild. There was also a Mild parti-gyled with the Brown Ale. I can't imagine both milds were identical in flavour.

Scottish breweries in the 1930's, if Usher and Maclay are typical, must have had very simple malt stores, containing just a couple of different malts.




Thomas Usher's grists in the 1930's


Date
Year
Beer
Style
OG
FG
ABV
pale malt
crystal malt
flaked maize
invert sugar
barbados/penang
CDM
Caramax
?? Sugar
cane sugar
DF sugar


20th Nov
1931
Brown Ale
Brown Ale
1055
1016.5
5.09
77.65%
3.53%

4.71%
4.71%
2.35%
2.35%
4.71%




13th Oct
1931
IPA
IPA
1032
1011
2.78
76.92%

12.82%
10.26%








2nd Oct
1931
MA
Mild
1040
1015.5
3.24
64.29%
7.14%


4.76%
4.76%
2.38%

14.29%
2.38%


6th Oct
1931
PA
Pale Ale
1034
1012
2.91
76.92%

12.82%
10.26%








6th Oct
1931
PA 60/-
Pale Ale
1040
1013
3.57
76.92%

12.82%
10.26%








5th Oct
1931
PA 70/-
Pale Ale
1047
1013.5
4.43
80.70%

12.28%
7.02%








12th Nov
1931
PA 80/-
Pale Ale
1055
1012.5
5.62
81.36%

11.86%
6.78%








2nd Oct
1931
Stout 80/-
Stout
1052
1023
3.84
64.29%
7.14%


4.76%
4.76%
2.38%

14.29%
2.38%


Source:


Thomas Usher brewing record document TU/6/6 held at the Scottish Brewing Archive



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