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A little interlude from watery Mild recipes and travel tales. US Lagers from 50-60 years ago.
You may recognise a couple of the names. I think a couple might even still be brewed.
I was reasonably surprised to see that they mostly have pretty decent OGs. For the most part, 1048º or above. So a full 12º Plato. They're around the strength I'd excpect from continental European Pilsners of the same period. My guess would be that modern versions of Miller and Budweiser are more highly attenuated, but lower in gravity.
I'm not sure what the Lowenbrau beer is. It's not quite strong enough to be a Bock. But too strong for a pilsner. I assume - because of how it was listed in the Whitbread Gravity Book - that it was brewed somewhere in the US. Presumably under licence from the Munich brewery.
I'll be back to the same old boring shit next. Just thought I'd make use of these data shavings.
US Lagers 1955 - 1962
Year
Brewer
Beer
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
colour
package
1955
Liebmann
Rheingold Extra Dry Lager
1049.8
1011.6
4.97
76.71%
6
can
1955
National Brewery
Beer
1050.9
1011
5.19
78.39%
10
bottled
1955
Pabst
Blue Ribbon
1048.9
1011.7
4.84
76.07%
9
can
1956
Miller, Milwuakee
High Life
1045.7
1012.3
4.33
73.09%
6
can
1960
Lowenbrau
Light Special
1061.1
1014
5.89
77.09%
5
bottled
1960
Schlitz
Beer
1048.6
1012.5
4.51
74.28%
5
bottled
1962
Ballantine
Light Lager Beer
1047.9
1013.7
4.28
71.40%
4.5
bottled
1962
Budweiser
Lager Beer
1048.7
1011.7
4.63
75.98%
4.5
bottled
1962
Miller
High Life
1048.6
1011.2
4.67
76.95%
6
bottled
1962
Pabst
Blue Ribbon Beer
1049.3
1011.3
4.75
77.08%
5.5
bottled
1962
Schaefer
Lager Beer
1049.2
1012.7
4.56
74.19%
6
bottled
1962
Schlitz
Beer
1049.2
1012.5
4.59
74.59%
6.5
bottled
Sources:
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001.
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A little interlude from watery Mild recipes and travel tales. US Lagers from 50-60 years ago.
You may recognise a couple of the names. I think a couple might even still be brewed.
I was reasonably surprised to see that they mostly have pretty decent OGs. For the most part, 1048º or above. So a full 12º Plato. They're around the strength I'd excpect from continental European Pilsners of the same period. My guess would be that modern versions of Miller and Budweiser are more highly attenuated, but lower in gravity.
I'm not sure what the Lowenbrau beer is. It's not quite strong enough to be a Bock. But too strong for a pilsner. I assume - because of how it was listed in the Whitbread Gravity Book - that it was brewed somewhere in the US. Presumably under licence from the Munich brewery.
I'll be back to the same old boring shit next. Just thought I'd make use of these data shavings.
US Lagers 1955 - 1962
Year
Brewer
Beer
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
colour
package
1955
Liebmann
Rheingold Extra Dry Lager
1049.8
1011.6
4.97
76.71%
6
can
1955
National Brewery
Beer
1050.9
1011
5.19
78.39%
10
bottled
1955
Pabst
Blue Ribbon
1048.9
1011.7
4.84
76.07%
9
can
1956
Miller, Milwuakee
High Life
1045.7
1012.3
4.33
73.09%
6
can
1960
Lowenbrau
Light Special
1061.1
1014
5.89
77.09%
5
bottled
1960
Schlitz
Beer
1048.6
1012.5
4.51
74.28%
5
bottled
1962
Ballantine
Light Lager Beer
1047.9
1013.7
4.28
71.40%
4.5
bottled
1962
Budweiser
Lager Beer
1048.7
1011.7
4.63
75.98%
4.5
bottled
1962
Miller
High Life
1048.6
1011.2
4.67
76.95%
6
bottled
1962
Pabst
Blue Ribbon Beer
1049.3
1011.3
4.75
77.08%
5.5
bottled
1962
Schaefer
Lager Beer
1049.2
1012.7
4.56
74.19%
6
bottled
1962
Schlitz
Beer
1049.2
1012.5
4.59
74.59%
6.5
bottled
Sources:
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001.
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