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While I'm on the topic of Mild quality in the 1920's, I may as well look at other London breweries, too.

I did this with some other London beers - mostly Porters and Stouts - a few years ago. I worked out a method of scoring the beers, based on the description of the flavour in the Whitbread Gravity Book. It goes like this, from -3 to +3:

+3 v good
+2 v fine, v fair, good
+1 fine, fair
0 moderate, only fair
-1 poor
-2 v poor, going off, thin
-3 nasty, sour, foul, gone off, mouldy

This brilliant. I'll be able to spin loads of posts out it. And then produce a league table for London Milds in the 1920's. Why didn't I think of this before?*

I think I may have to rethink my plans to hang around in Barclay Perkins pubs when I move back to the 1920's.



Barclay Perkins Mild Ale quality 1922 - 1925


Year
Beer
FG
OG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
Appearance
Flavour
Score


1922
X
1009
1039.5
4.03
78.48%
grey
sour
-3


1922
X
1009
1038.9
3.83
75.84%
hazy
only fair
0


1922
X
1010
1040
3.89
75.00%
cloudy
fair
1


1922
X
1010
1039
3.76
74.36%
fairly bright
gone off
-3


1923
X
1013
1044.7
4.08
70.47%
not quite bright
good
2


1923
X
1012
1041
3.76
70.73%
hazy
thin
-2


1923
X
1010
1041
3.97
74.63%
not bright
fair
1


1923
X
1011
1041.6
4.02
74.52%
hazy
v fair
2


1923
X
1011
1041.8
4.02
74.16%
thick
poor
-1


1923
X
1011
1041.1
3.96
74.21%
v hazy
poor mouldy
-3


1924
X

1043.8


just bright
fair
1


1924
X
1012
1044.6
4.27
73.77%
milky
thin
-2


1924
X
1010
1043.8
4.37
76.71%
cloudy
only fair
0


1925
X
1011
1044
4.23
74.09%
not bright
Poor & thin
-2



Average






-0.64


Source:


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



That's pretty piss-poor, isn't it? Not a single one totally bright. Only 4 out of 14 with a positive score for the flavour and three that sound undrinkable. None of the beers is without a fault.

I wonder if they fined their beers. I suppose nowadays the landlord would just have to scribble "unfined" on the pump clip and suddenly those faults would all disappear.





* I did, but got distracted by something else.



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