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There isn't a great deal of material from Steel Coulson in the Scottish Brewing Arhive. Most of what there is consists of financial stuff or photographs. And no brewing records, sadly.
But there is an envelope with a few typed sheets that contain some information about their beers. And how much of them they brewed in. As it lists the gravities, it is fairly useful for me. But I also find it fascinating to see how much of each beer they brewed.
By far the biggest seller was their pale 60/-, which wasn't far short of 60% of all they brewed. I was surprised to see that their strongest draught beer was just 1034º. That's pretty feeble, even for the 1950's. I assume that the Brown 60/- was just the pale version with extra caramel.
In fact it looks like a classic one-recipe Scottish brewery. My bet is that the draught beers, Strong Ale, Export and Pale Ale were all parti-gyled in various combinations. And they were making so little Stout, they probably parti-gyled that, too. In the weird way Scottish brewers did.
You can see that they weren't a large brewery. 18,000 barrels a year is pretty small, even for a Scottish brewer. A big London brewery would have brewed that much beer in a fortnight.
As they list the retail and wholesale price, it's possible to work out the pub's markup. £13 11/- (the price of 60/-) works out to 11.29d per pint, making the publican's cut 4.71d. PXA works out to 13d a pint, giving the pub 6d.
It's much easier to work out the price per bottle, as its for a dozen and there were 12 pence in a shilling. So a bottle of Strong Ale was 11d retail. The pub's markup was 4d to 4.5d for most of the bottled beers.
Steel Coulson Croft-an-Righ Brewery, Edinburgh 19th May 1954
Beer Brewed
Produced from May 1953 - April 1954 (inclusive)
OG
Barrels
dozen pint
dozen half pint
nip
wholesale
retail
Draught Beer
Scotland
England
Edinburgh Ale P. 60/-
1030°
10,585
£13: 11/-
1/3d
1/2d
Brown Ale B. 60/-
1030°
1,457
£13: 11/-
1/3d
PXA P. 70/-
1034°
2,006
£15: 14/-
1/7d
14,048
Bottled Beer
Strong Ale
1075°
180
14,770
11/-
1/3d
Export
1042°
2,034
41,964
10/6d
1/3d
Elelphant Pale Ale
1031°
1,855
12,310
13/6d
1/8d
Elelphant Pale Ale
32,489
6/10d
10d
Elelphant Pale Ale
31,949
4/10d
6.5d
Stout (Sweet)
1032°
204
9,239
9/6d
1/2d
4,273
Total
18,321
12,310
83,692
46,719
Source:
Reports on Production of Beers held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number SC/6/1/1.
Here's the percentage of output for each of the beers:
Steel Coulson output 1953 -1954
Beer
barrels
%
Edinburgh Ale P. 60/-
10,585
57.78%
Brown Ale B. 60/-
1,457
7.95%
PXA P. 70/-
2,006
10.95%
Strong Ale
180
0.98%
Export
2,034
11.10%
Elelphant Pale Ale
1,855
10.12%
Stout (Sweet)
204
1.11%
total draught
14,048
76.68%
total bottled
4,273
23.32%
Total
18,321
Source:
Reports on Production of Beers held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number SC/6/1/1.
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There isn't a great deal of material from Steel Coulson in the Scottish Brewing Arhive. Most of what there is consists of financial stuff or photographs. And no brewing records, sadly.
But there is an envelope with a few typed sheets that contain some information about their beers. And how much of them they brewed in. As it lists the gravities, it is fairly useful for me. But I also find it fascinating to see how much of each beer they brewed.
By far the biggest seller was their pale 60/-, which wasn't far short of 60% of all they brewed. I was surprised to see that their strongest draught beer was just 1034º. That's pretty feeble, even for the 1950's. I assume that the Brown 60/- was just the pale version with extra caramel.
In fact it looks like a classic one-recipe Scottish brewery. My bet is that the draught beers, Strong Ale, Export and Pale Ale were all parti-gyled in various combinations. And they were making so little Stout, they probably parti-gyled that, too. In the weird way Scottish brewers did.
You can see that they weren't a large brewery. 18,000 barrels a year is pretty small, even for a Scottish brewer. A big London brewery would have brewed that much beer in a fortnight.
As they list the retail and wholesale price, it's possible to work out the pub's markup. £13 11/- (the price of 60/-) works out to 11.29d per pint, making the publican's cut 4.71d. PXA works out to 13d a pint, giving the pub 6d.
It's much easier to work out the price per bottle, as its for a dozen and there were 12 pence in a shilling. So a bottle of Strong Ale was 11d retail. The pub's markup was 4d to 4.5d for most of the bottled beers.
Steel Coulson Croft-an-Righ Brewery, Edinburgh 19th May 1954
Beer Brewed
Produced from May 1953 - April 1954 (inclusive)
OG
Barrels
dozen pint
dozen half pint
nip
wholesale
retail
Draught Beer
Scotland
England
Edinburgh Ale P. 60/-
1030°
10,585
£13: 11/-
1/3d
1/2d
Brown Ale B. 60/-
1030°
1,457
£13: 11/-
1/3d
PXA P. 70/-
1034°
2,006
£15: 14/-
1/7d
14,048
Bottled Beer
Strong Ale
1075°
180
14,770
11/-
1/3d
Export
1042°
2,034
41,964
10/6d
1/3d
Elelphant Pale Ale
1031°
1,855
12,310
13/6d
1/8d
Elelphant Pale Ale
32,489
6/10d
10d
Elelphant Pale Ale
31,949
4/10d
6.5d
Stout (Sweet)
1032°
204
9,239
9/6d
1/2d
4,273
Total
18,321
12,310
83,692
46,719
Source:
Reports on Production of Beers held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number SC/6/1/1.
Here's the percentage of output for each of the beers:
Steel Coulson output 1953 -1954
Beer
barrels
%
Edinburgh Ale P. 60/-
10,585
57.78%
Brown Ale B. 60/-
1,457
7.95%
PXA P. 70/-
2,006
10.95%
Strong Ale
180
0.98%
Export
2,034
11.10%
Elelphant Pale Ale
1,855
10.12%
Stout (Sweet)
204
1.11%
total draught
14,048
76.68%
total bottled
4,273
23.32%
Total
18,321
Source:
Reports on Production of Beers held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number SC/6/1/1.
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