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We’re going to be having a tabletastic time again. You guessed it. I can’t be arsed to write many words.
My thanks to Jess Kidden (aka Steve) for sending me a ginormous table of this stuff. Just the sort of thing I can get my teeth into. I’ll be pestering with you these numbers for a while.
Right, let’s have the first table.
Materials used in brewing in the USA 1915 - 1920 (lbs)
YEAR
PRODUCTION (BARRELS)
MALT
C0RN AND CORN PRODUCTS
RICE
OTHER GRAINS
SUGAR AND SYRUPS
OTHER MATERIALS
1915
59,808,210
2,141,723,104
604,890,901
167,750,177
145,697,970
109,630,425
68,880,530
1916
58,633,624
1,961,254,980
650,745,703
141,249,292
113,712,782
77,068,573
24,756,974
1917
60,817,379
2,770,964,606
666,401,619
125,632,269
204,089,800
115,838,410
17,573,893
1918
50,266,216
1,227,301,254
459,842,338
78,942,550
68,693,042
64,930,019
5,491,879
1919
27,712,648
854,329,231
112,969,071
17,356,242
25,780,394
54,502,845
4,803,123
1920
9,231,280
292,423,712
48,551,910
9,357,668
483,477
23,354,072
4,822,391
Source:
Various editions of the "The Brewers Almanac"
Nice numbers, but they make more sense converted to percentages:
Materials used in brewing in the USA 1915 - 1920 (%)
YEAR
MALT
C0RN AND CORN PRODUCTS
RICE
OTHER GRAINS
SUGAR AND SYRUPS
OTHER MATERIALS
1915
66.13%
18.68%
5.18%
4.50%
3.39%
2.13%
1916
66.06%
21.92%
4.76%
3.83%
2.60%
0.83%
1917
71.04%
17.09%
3.22%
5.23%
2.97%
0.45%
1918
64.42%
24.14%
4.14%
3.61%
3.41%
0.29%
1919
79.86%
10.56%
1.62%
2.41%
5.09%
0.45%
1920
77.16%
12.81%
2.47%
0.13%
6.16%
1.27%
Source:
Various editions of the "The Brewers Almanac"
As you can see, malt made up on average about two-thirds of the grist. Which is similar to what we saw after the repeal of Prohibition. I wonder if the fall in percentage of maize and rice and increase in sugar was connected with the war.
I know what you young’uns like: hops. So here’s US hop usage in the same period:
Hop usage in the USA 1915 - 1920
YEAR
HOPS
HOPS LBS./ BBL.
1915
38,839,294
0.65
1916
37,451,610
0.64
1917
41,958,753
0.69
1918
33,481,415
0.67
1919
13,924,650
0.41
1920
6,440,894
0.7
Source:
Various editions of the "The Brewers Almanac"
Not sure if that tells us very much. So let’s compare it to the UK:
Hop usage in the UK 1914 - 1920
year
bulk barrels
hops( lbs)
hops lbs/ Imperial barrel
hops lbs/ US barrel
1914
36,162,273
62,655,438
1.73
1.24
1915
34,765,780
52,323,711
1.51
1.08
1918
19,085,043
29,499,261
1.55
1.11
1919
23,264,533
41,183,160
1.77
1.27
1920
34,776,258
56,351,680
1.62
1.16
Sources:
Brewers' Almanack 1928, page 110
Brewers' Almanack 1928, page 111
Brewers' Almanack 1955, page 62
What surprised me there is how little hop usage went down, despite gravities plummeting in this period. But one point is clear: American beers were much more lightly hopped that British ones. Oh, and notice how more hops in absolute terms were used in the UK.
And that’s it. Loads more to come, though.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2015/02/materials-used-in-brewing-in-usa-1915.html)
We’re going to be having a tabletastic time again. You guessed it. I can’t be arsed to write many words.
My thanks to Jess Kidden (aka Steve) for sending me a ginormous table of this stuff. Just the sort of thing I can get my teeth into. I’ll be pestering with you these numbers for a while.
Right, let’s have the first table.
Materials used in brewing in the USA 1915 - 1920 (lbs)
YEAR
PRODUCTION (BARRELS)
MALT
C0RN AND CORN PRODUCTS
RICE
OTHER GRAINS
SUGAR AND SYRUPS
OTHER MATERIALS
1915
59,808,210
2,141,723,104
604,890,901
167,750,177
145,697,970
109,630,425
68,880,530
1916
58,633,624
1,961,254,980
650,745,703
141,249,292
113,712,782
77,068,573
24,756,974
1917
60,817,379
2,770,964,606
666,401,619
125,632,269
204,089,800
115,838,410
17,573,893
1918
50,266,216
1,227,301,254
459,842,338
78,942,550
68,693,042
64,930,019
5,491,879
1919
27,712,648
854,329,231
112,969,071
17,356,242
25,780,394
54,502,845
4,803,123
1920
9,231,280
292,423,712
48,551,910
9,357,668
483,477
23,354,072
4,822,391
Source:
Various editions of the "The Brewers Almanac"
Nice numbers, but they make more sense converted to percentages:
Materials used in brewing in the USA 1915 - 1920 (%)
YEAR
MALT
C0RN AND CORN PRODUCTS
RICE
OTHER GRAINS
SUGAR AND SYRUPS
OTHER MATERIALS
1915
66.13%
18.68%
5.18%
4.50%
3.39%
2.13%
1916
66.06%
21.92%
4.76%
3.83%
2.60%
0.83%
1917
71.04%
17.09%
3.22%
5.23%
2.97%
0.45%
1918
64.42%
24.14%
4.14%
3.61%
3.41%
0.29%
1919
79.86%
10.56%
1.62%
2.41%
5.09%
0.45%
1920
77.16%
12.81%
2.47%
0.13%
6.16%
1.27%
Source:
Various editions of the "The Brewers Almanac"
As you can see, malt made up on average about two-thirds of the grist. Which is similar to what we saw after the repeal of Prohibition. I wonder if the fall in percentage of maize and rice and increase in sugar was connected with the war.
I know what you young’uns like: hops. So here’s US hop usage in the same period:
Hop usage in the USA 1915 - 1920
YEAR
HOPS
HOPS LBS./ BBL.
1915
38,839,294
0.65
1916
37,451,610
0.64
1917
41,958,753
0.69
1918
33,481,415
0.67
1919
13,924,650
0.41
1920
6,440,894
0.7
Source:
Various editions of the "The Brewers Almanac"
Not sure if that tells us very much. So let’s compare it to the UK:
Hop usage in the UK 1914 - 1920
year
bulk barrels
hops( lbs)
hops lbs/ Imperial barrel
hops lbs/ US barrel
1914
36,162,273
62,655,438
1.73
1.24
1915
34,765,780
52,323,711
1.51
1.08
1918
19,085,043
29,499,261
1.55
1.11
1919
23,264,533
41,183,160
1.77
1.27
1920
34,776,258
56,351,680
1.62
1.16
Sources:
Brewers' Almanack 1928, page 110
Brewers' Almanack 1928, page 111
Brewers' Almanack 1955, page 62
What surprised me there is how little hop usage went down, despite gravities plummeting in this period. But one point is clear: American beers were much more lightly hopped that British ones. Oh, and notice how more hops in absolute terms were used in the UK.
And that’s it. Loads more to come, though.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2015/02/materials-used-in-brewing-in-usa-1915.html)