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I should temporarily change title of the blog to The Milk Stout Story". Don't worry. I'm nowhere near finished with the topic.

I've dove into my collection of Gravity Book analyses to spear all the Milk Stout examples. And there are quite a few. All I can say is: what a diverse bunch.

For a start, the gravities are all over the shop. As you can see, the original, Mackeson, had a very respectable OG of 1060º in 1929. To put that into perspective, Guinness Extra Stout was around 1055º between the wars. The examples in the table vary from 1036º to 1066º. Though admittedly the high one is a Belgian example from Lamot. Though, at 1064º the strongest UK-brewed dexample isn't that far behind. The overall average of 1053º is probably about the same as the average for all Stouts.

Some of the rates of attenuation surprised me by how high they were. I wouldn't expect a Milk Stout, with all that unfermentable lactose to get higher than 65% apparent attenuation. Yet there are a few pushing 80%. Not sure how they achieved that, unless the quantity of lactose used was quite small. At the other end, there are a few at 50% attenuation of less. Which is more like you would expect. The overall average of 64% is higher than I would have guessed.
Note that the price per pint didn't always necessarily reflect the strength of the beer. At a time when beer strengths weren't gerneally known, it was relatively easy for a brewer to overprice a beer.

What I see is typical of fairly new styles. initially, different brewers interpretations vary considerably in strength and character, but eventually settle into a similar pattern. We'll see if that's true as I slowly creep through the decades.




Milk Stout 1925 - 1937


Year
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint d
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation


1925
Simonds
Milk Stout
11
1062.1





1927
Ashton Gate Brewery
Milk Stout
9
1052.4
1015.7
4.76
70.04%


1928
Simonds
Milk Stout
10
1058.7
1017.5
5.35
70.19%


1929
Mackeson
Milk Stout
10
1060.4
1020.4
5.18
66.23%


1930
Beer & Rigden
Milk Stout

1054.4
1027.1
3.50
50.18%


1931
Calder
Milk Stout

1059
1023
4.65
61.02%


1931
Fremlin
Milk Stout
10
1047.5
1019.9
3.56
58.11%


1932
Carter, Milner & Bird
Milk Stout
11
1044.2
1013.4
3.99
69.68%


1933
Murray
Milk Stout

1036
1018
2.31
50.00%


1933
Simonds
Milk Stout
10
1049
1018.5
3.94
62.24%


1934
Fremlin
Milk Stout
8
1048.7
1020.4
3.65
58.11%


1934
Woodhead
Milk Stout
8
1041.6
1016.3
3.26
60.82%


1935
Allsopp
Milk Stout
9
1049.3
1013.8
4.61
72.01%


1935
Ansell
Milk Stout
11
1060.7
1018.1
5.53
70.18%


1935
Fremlin
Milk Stout
8
1048.8
1020.2
3.69
58.61%


1935
Lamot
Milk Stout

1065.7
1016.9
6.35
74.28%


1935
Mann
Milk Stout
10
1044.6
1022.9
2.79
48.65%


1935
Simonds
Milk Stout
10
1048.4
1014.3
4.42
70.45%


1935
Simonds
Milk Stout
10
1055
1018.3
4.75
66.73%


1936
McEwan
Milk Stout
12
1064.4
1013.1
6.70
79.66%


1936
Wm. Younger
Milk Stout
10.5
1063
1014.7
6.30
76.67%


1937
Allsopp
Milk Stout
12
1050.3
1014.5
4.64
71.17%


1937
Ansell
Milk Stout
12
1060.8
1018.1
5.54
70.23%


1937
Calder Alloa
Milk Stout

1055.75
1022.25
4.32
60.09%


1937
Mackeson
Milk Stout

1057
1024.5
4.19
57.02%


1937
Mann
Milk Stout
9
1043.8
1023.8
2.56
45.66%


1937
Marston
Milk Stout
9
1045.8
1010
4.66
78.17%


1937
Murray
Milk Stout
6
1044.8
1019.2
3.30
57.14%


1937
Seed, Richard
Milk Stout
11
1052.9
1011.3
5.42
78.64%


1937
Wenlock
Milk Stout
8
1053.5
1025.9
3.55
51.59%



Average

9.8
1052.6
1018.3
4.39
64.26%


Sources:


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


Younger, Wm. & Co Gravity Book document WY/6/1/1/19 held at the Scottish Brewing Archive.


Thomas Usher Gravity Book document TU/6/11 held at the Scottish Brewing Archive.






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