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You may have drunk ythis IPA tourself, without knowing it. Because this is the beer that eventually became Boddington's Bitter.

When I first started drinking in the 1970'a, Boddington's Bitter was very highly regarded and noted to be particularly bitter. Then there was a recipe change that supposedly made it much blander.

Yet when I look at the hopping rate in 1914, it's susprisingly low. Whitbread's IPA, which was a little bit weaker, was hopped at about treble the rate per quarter, a massive 12 lbs. And when I run the 1914 Boddington IP recipe through BeerSmith, it calculates just 43 IBUs.

Obviously, the strength of IP fell during the war. but even at its low point in 1918, it was still 1037ยบ. That's actually quite a decent gravity for that period. And it bounced back quite well post-war, at a level only 13% below that of 1914. The average fall in gravity was 19%.



Boddington IP 1914 - 1921


Date
Year
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl


10th Jul
1914
1053
1016
4.89
69.81%
4.00
1.35


6th May
1915
1047
1016
4.10
65.96%
4.52
1.18


14th Oct
1915
1050
1016
4.50
68.00%
4.52
1.23


15th May
1916
1053
1015
5.03
71.70%
4.52
1.42


15th May
1917
1044
1015
3.84
65.91%
4.75
1.16


6th Jul
1917
1046
1016
3.97
65.22%
3.78
1.18


9th Oct
1917
1045
1017
3.70
62.22%
4.75
1.15


26th Apr
1918
1038
1012
3.44
68.42%
5.38
1.11


2nd Aug
1918
1038
1014
3.18
63.16%
5.38
1.16


4th Oct
1918
1038
1012
3.44
68.42%
5.38
1.11


20th Dec
1918
1037
1014
3.04
62.16%
5.38
1.08


8th Jan
1919
1039
1015
3.18
61.54%
5.38
1.07


12th Jun
1919
1042
1013
3.84
69.05%
5.00
1.15


14th Oct
1919
1046
1015
4.10
67.39%
4.44
1.21


8th Oct
1920
1046
1015
4.10
67.39%
4.59
1.16


4th Oct
1921
1048
1015
4.37
68.75%
3.93
1.01


Sources:


Boddington brewing records held at Manchester Central Library, document numbers M693/405/126 and M693/405/126.



Before the war, Boddington brewed two other Pale Ales, AK and PA. Both were dropped in the latter war years.

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