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And here we are, at the end of the Burton road, as little weary, but happy. Happy the bloody journey is over.

It end with a whimper. There are only three Whitbread Burton examples. Hardly a big enough sample to draw any conclusions. That's why I've thrown in some bonus tables.

But first some dull financial information:


"Whitbread and Co., Ltd., report for the year ended June 30th a net profit of £222,749, as compared with £226,270 for the previous year. After meeting debenture interest and dividends on Preference and Preferred Ordinary stocks, the directors recommend a final dividend upon the Ordinary shares of 8 per cent, making, with the interim dividend of 2 per cent., a total of 10 per cent., the same as for the previous year. A sum of £319,531 will remain to be carried forward, as compared with £289,580 carried forward a year ago."
"The Brewers' Journal, 1923", page 424.
This is exciting. I now know Whitbread's profit for 1922 and 1923. But do you know what other figures I have? Whitbread's output for the 1920's:



Whitbread KK output 1921 - 1929



barrels
% of total
total brewed


1921
32,481
4.81%
675,647


1922
35,060
6.09%
576,118


1923
34,553
6.84%
505,097


1924
43,707
7.92%
551,616


1925
46,480
8.80%
527,977


1926
44,912
8.76%
512,528


1927
46,218
10.00%
462,250


1928
47,567
9.74%
488,357


1929
56,258
12.67%
443,888


Sources:


Whitbread brewing records held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document numbers



Which means I can see what their profit per barrel was in those years: in 1922 7.73 shillings and in 1923 8.96 shillings. That doesn't seem an awful lot.

Now the beer. Fairly typical, but the attenuation is at the high end, as is as a consequence the ABV, at just over 5.5%.

Here's the pathetically small table, more picnic than dining:



Whitbread Burton Ale quality 1922


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


1922
KK
1005
1052.2
6.13
89.66%
cloudy
fine
1


1922
KK
1016
1054
4.89
69.81%
almost bright
fair
1


1922
KK
1010
1053.5
5.67
81.31%
bright
good
2


Average
1011
1053.2
5.56
80.26%


1.33


Source:


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



One in three bright - I think we can agree that's crap. All positive scores for flavour, leaving an impressive average of 1.33. Though the number of examples is ridiculously small

Next time I'll review all the Burtons.

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