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Not much this time. Just a table of analyses.

It's in the Wahls' book, but they had borrowed them from someone else:

"Composition of various European beers, according to Prof. Dr. H. Luers, Munich, in "Grafe Handbuch Der Organischen Warenkunde", Volume III, 1929."

It's mostly Bavarian breweries, speiced with a few exotics from Prague and Britain:



European beers in 1929


Year
Brewer
Town
country
Beer
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
OG Plato


1929
Pschorr
Munich
Germany
Dunkles
1054.26
1019.2
4.53
64.61%
13.43


1929
Hofbrau
Munich
Germany
Dunkles
1057.58
1020.2
4.75
64.92%
14.21


1929
Weihenstephan
Freising
Germany
Dunkles
1057.16
1017.2
5.16
69.91%
14.11


1929
Spaten
Munich
Germany
Dunkles
1053.83
1021.4
4.19
60.25%
13.33


1929
Tucher
Nuernberg
Germany
Dunkles
1053.45
1017.8
4.59
66.70%
13.24


1929
Kulmbacher Sandlerbraeu
Kulmbach
Germany
Dunkles
1062.61
1015.8
6.05
74.76%
15.38


1929
Dortmunder Union
Dortmund
Germany
Export
1055.15
1012
5.55
78.24%
13.64


1929
Schultheiss brauerei
Berlin
Germany
Maerzenbler
1053.75
1012.3
5.09
77.12%
13.31


1929
Erste Pilsener Actienbrauerei
Pilsen
Czech Republic
Pilsener
1046.99
1011.6
4.56
75.32%
11.71


1929
Burgerliches Brauhaus
Pilsen
Czech Republic
Pilsener Urquell
1048.17
1013.4
4.51
72.18%
11.99


1929
Dreher
Kleinschwechat
Austria
Wiener Maerzenbier
1058.95
1016.9
5.44
71.33%
14.53


1929
Unknown
Berlin
Germany
Berliner Weissbier
1036.68
1007.1
3.84
80.64%
9.23


1929
Barclay Perkins
London
UK
Porter
1087.61
1022.9
8.40
73.86%
21.06


1929
Bass
Burton
UK
Pale Ale
1060.80
1018.8
6.28
69.08%
14.96


Source:


Beer from the Expert's Viewpoint by Arnold Spencer Wahl and Robert Wahl, 1937, page 166.



I've no idea what that Barclay Perkins beer is. Obviously some sort of Stout. But it doesn't match any they brewed in the 1920's: BBS Ex had an OG of 1079º and IBS Ex 1103º*. I suspect the analysis is really from before WW I.

The Bass Pale Ale has an OG that looks right for the export version, but the FG looks far too high. Don't quite understand that one.

Moving on to the Munich beers, they still have the high OG and poor attenuation of the 19th century.

The Kulmbcher has a surprisingly high gravity - though didn't we just read something saying it had a bock-like OG? - and reasonable attenuation leaving quite an alcoholic beer.

The Pilseners look . . . very much like modern Pilsner Urquell in terms of OG and ABV. It seems a very unchaging beer in terms of strength. More so than any other individual beer I can think of.

Told you there wasn't much this time. That's it.





* Barclay Perkins brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number ACC/2305/01/614.

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