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Had my obsessive side passed you by, the current flood of Lager might have surprised. A regular reader would expect the unrelenting tsunami of tables. If such a beast as a regular reader exists.

Let's begin with doubt. I'm not sure what these analyses teach us. Just as well that's not my main reason for publishing them. It's mostly to do with identifying the regional groupings.

In the source, there's a heading to identify beers of a certain region. I don't have that luxury. Each beer is a row in a spreadsheet that I sort into all sorts of different orders. You can forget headers. The rows get shuffled all over the place.

Sorry to bother you with this. Me finding handy places to park stuff I don't want to lose.

When you have as much crap as I do - writings, research material, photos - you have to keep in some sort of order. To be able to find it back. That's why my self-published books exist. So I can keep track of what I've written.

Now I've got that out of the way, on with the beers. First those from Westphalia. As you can see, they're mostly from Dortmund.



Westphalian Lagerbiers 1879 - 1893


Year
Brewer

Beer
Style
Acidity
OG
FG
OG Plato
ABV
App. Atten-uation


1879
Unknown
Dortmund
Dortmunder
Lagerbier

1049.1
1015.1
12.21
4.40
69.25%


1884
Unknown
Marienborn bei Sigen
Lagerbier 2 bis 3 Monat alt
Lagerbier
0.184
1051.0
1011.3
12.66
5.16
77.84%


1884
Barmer Aktien-Brauerei
Barmen-Rittershausen
Lagerbier
Lagerbier
0.161
1053.0
1019
13.13
4.40
64.15%


1887
Westfalia-Brauerei
Münster
Lagerbier Dunkel
Dunkles
0.317
1053.0
1015
13.13
4.94
71.70%


1893
Löwenbräu
Dortmund
Lagerbier
Lagerbier
0.27
1055.0
1012.0
13.60
5.60
78.18%


1884
Gebr. Meininghaus
Dortmund
Lagerbier
Lagerbier
0.02
1056.0
1013.8
13.84
5.49
75.36%


1887
Westfalia-Brauerei
Münster
Lagerbier Hell
Helles
0.302
1056.8
1013
14.03
5.70
77.11%


1884
Victoria-Brauerei
Dortmund
nach bömisches Art
Lagerbier
0.118
1059.0
1017.5
14.54
5.39
70.34%


1884
Victoria-Brauerei
Dortmund
goldfarbig Lagerbier
Helles
0.152
1062.3
1019
15.31
5.62
69.50%



Average



0.191
1055.0
1015.1
13.61
5.19
72.60%


Source:


Chemie der menschlichen Nahrungs- und Genussmittel by Joseph König, 1903, pages 1102 - 1156



My guess would be that most were pale in colour. The one described as "nach böhmisches Art" almost certainly is.

In terms of gravity, they mostly look right for Export, though the source describes them as Lagerbier. I'd expect 13º to 14º Plato, which is what most of them are, with the average 13.6º Plato. At 72%, the attenuation is better than for most of the Lagerbiers we've looked at. Odd, because you'd expect attenuation to be worse in the stronger Export. The high gravity and relatively high level of attenuation mean that the average ABV is the highest so far, 5.19%

At almost 0.2%, the level of lactic acid is again rather high. Two samples have acidity over 0.3%. That's the sort of level you'd expect in a Stock Ale or aged Stout. I'm still trying to get my head around levels like that being in Lager.

Now the Hessian Lagerbiers. They're sort of from Hessen. Or they were back in the 1890's. But today Schmalkalden is in Thuringia. I must confess that I didn't notice. Dolores pointed it out to me when I asked if she knew where it was. She does, because she grew up not that far away. It's weird that so many samples are from Schmalkalden. It's not a huge town - the population now is only 20,000. Yet from the much larger Kassel, there's only one.



Hessian Lagerbiers in 1893


Year
Brewer
town
Style
Acidity
OG
FG
OG Plato
ABV
App. Atten-uation


1893
Bühner
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.211
1044.5
1012
11.11
4.21
73.03%


1893
H. Wiegand
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.137
1045.1
1013.2
11.26
4.14
70.73%


1893
Messerschmidt
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.262
1045.4
1012.5
11.33
4.26
72.47%


1893
Kaufmann
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.271
1045.5
1012.0
11.35
4.35
73.63%


1893
C. Wolff
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.137
1045.9
1014
11.45
4.14
69.50%


1893
Falk
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.218
1046.0
1013.3
11.47
4.24
71.09%


1893
Cramer
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.232
1046.3
1013.7
11.54
4.23
70.41%


1893
Wwe. Köhler
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.152
1047.1
1014
11.74
4.29
70.28%


1893
Ritter Sauer
Hersfeld
Lagerbier

1048.1
1011.3
11.97
4.79
76.51%


1893
G. Wolff
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.270
1048.3
1011.0
12.02
4.85
77.23%


1893
Hessische Aktien-Brauerei
Cassel
Lagerbier
0.185
1048.3
1012
12.02
4.71
75.16%


1893
Rückert-Siemen
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.179
1050.0
1018
12.42
4.14
64.00%


1893
Lederer
Marburg
Lagerbier
0.14
1051.4
1015.5
12.76
4.65
69.84%


1893
Wwe. Lesser
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.232
1051.5
1014.2
12.78
4.84
72.43%


1893
A. Wiegand
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.148
1051.7
1009.8
12.83
5.46
81.04%


1893
W. Engelhardt
Hersfeld
Lagerbier
0.179
1052.6
1015.7
13.04
4.79
70.15%


1893
Missomelius
Marburg
Lagerbier
0.21
1057.0
1013.2
14.07
5.70
76.84%


1893
Kühn
Schmalkalden
Lagerbier
0.137
1060.3
1017
14.84
5.63
71.81%


1893
Missomelius
Marburg
Lagerbier
0.097
1060.6
1015.0
14.91
5.94
75.25%



Average


0.189
1049.8
1013.5
12.36
4.70
72.70%


Source:


Chemie der menschlichen Nahrungs- und Genussmittel by Joseph König, 1903, pages 1102 - 1156



The Hessian Lagerbiers have a much lower average gravity than the Westphalian ones - more than 5 points lower. Though they share a similar degree of attenuation, about 72%. Though the average seems about right for Lagerbier, some at the bottom end are a bit weak and the top two far too strong. Again, the average acidity is on the high side.

The table fun just doesn't end today. I've put together a table to compare the average values for Lagerbiers from different areas.



Bohemian, German and Austrian Lagerbiers


Beer
OG
FG
OG Plato
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lactic acid %


Bohemian Dark Lagers 1890 - 1895
1044.4
1014.2
11.09
3.91
68.13%
0.172


Bohemian Lagerbier 1876
1046.2
1013.3
11.51
4.26
71.25%
0.130


Bohemian Pilsener 1880-1890
1049.0
1013.6
12.18
4.59
72.09%
0.212


Bohemian Pale Lagerbier 1880-1890
1049.2
1014.9
12.22
4.44
70.06%
0.140


Hessian Lagerbiers in 1893
1049.8
1013.5
12.36
4.70
72.70%
0.189


Dresden Lagerbiers 1878 - 1880
1052.0
1013.4
12.90
5.01
74.37%



Lower Austrian Lagerbier 1876
1053.3
1017.0
13.20
4.70
68.17%
0.140


Hannover region Lagerbier 1878 - 1891
1053.4
1015.6
13.22
4.90
70.81%
0.134


Nürnberg Winterbier 1887
1053.6
1016.4
13.28
4.82
69.30%
0.232


Westphalian Lagerbiers 1879 - 1893
1055.0
1015.1
13.61
5.19
72.60%
0.191



You can see that the Hessian ones slot in just above the Bohemian ones. They're quite a bit weaker than any of the other German ones. While Westphalian Lagerbiers are, on average, the strongest. Not sure what the table tells us, other than that gravities were low in Bohemia.

Not sure what's next. erfurt, maybe.

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