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Another series I can put to bed. This is the last of William Younger’s beer types from the immediate post-war years. Stout.

It’s fascinating to see how beer styles followed their own path in Scotland. Pale Ales became less hoppy than their English counterparts, Mild withered away decades earlier and Stout went sweet and not very alcoholic before 1900. And, of course, Lager was popular in Scotland long before England. It some ways you could argue Scotland blazed a path that England later followed.

Various writers have claimed that all English Stout went sweet in the early 20th century. But it just isn’t true. In fact there was a split in the Stout market, with weak lactose-laced Milk Stouts on the one hand and relatively dry, stronger beers on the other. But in Scotland things were quite different. Sweet Stouts with very low degrees of attenuation were already common in the 19th century and by WW II few drier versions survived.

Capital Stout I can spot in Younger’s 1949 brewing records. It’s DBS Btlg. In fact it had a long pedigree, having been brewed since at least the 1850’s. Weirdly, a descendent live on in a rather unexpected place: Denmark. Because when Carl Jacobsen, son of Carlsberg’s founder, returned from his apprenticeship in Britain he brought back recipes. Most faded away after a couple of years, but DBS – marketed as Carlsberg Porter – has survived until today. Though oddly Carlsberg claim it was only introduced in 1930.

Nourishing Stout is obviously just another name for Capital Stout.

Sweet Stout is archetypal of the Scottish style: an OG in the mid 1030’s, attenuation of around 50% and under 3% ABV. The low degree of attenuation doubtless helped by the addition of lactose. Why is its presence sometimes remarked upon in the Whitbread Gravity Book? Because they brewed the market-leader amongst Milk Stouts, Mackeson. They kept a very close eye on competing products.

The pricing of the two Stouts looks illogical, with the weaker Sweet Stout often costing the same or more than the stronger Capital Stout. Makes no sense to me. Capital Stout should be at least 2d per half more expensive.



William Younger's Stout 1951 - 1960


Year
Beer
Price
size
package
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
colour


1959
Capital Stout
15d
half
bottled
1043.7
1021.6
2.84
50.57%
376


1954
Capital Stout (Lactose present)
16d
half
bottled
1046.5
1019.7
3.45
57.63%
250


1954
Nourishing Stout
14d
half
bottled
1046.3
1021.6
3.18
53.35%
1 + 16


1951
Sweet Stout
14d
half
bottled
1035.7
1019.5
2.08
45.38%
1 + 10


1955
Sweet Stout
15d
half
bottled
1034.9
1017.5
2.24
49.86%
200


1959
Sweet Stout
14d
half
bottled
1033.3
1013.1
2.61
60.66%
300


1960
Sweet Stout (lactose present)
12d
half
bottled
1034.8
1016.9
2.24
51.44%
250


Source:


Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002.



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