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I'm continuing my series of random Lager analyses from the years following WWW II. Why, you may ask. The simple answer to that is: because I can. This is my blog and I can do what the hell I like.

That's the glory of a blog. There's no editor looking over your shoulder. You're 100% on your own. Which is the way I like it. I hate being told what to do.

Getting back to the topic of this post, these are beers which I'm pretty sure were on sale in the UK. The ones with a price listed, almost certainly so. Though all are some sort of Pale Laager, there's a fair amount of variation in strength.

The two examples at just over 1030º were definitely specifically brewed for the UK market. No-one in Germany drank Lager that weak. The ones at 1040-1042º couldn't have been for the German market, either. There was a gap in the tax gravity bands between 9º and 11º Plato (approximately 1036º-1044º. so those must be some sort of beer for export.

It's interesting to see so many examples of Holsten. A little later - in the 1970s and 1980s - Holsten was a big brand in the UK. I wonder if that was because they'd got into the UK market early?



Lager brewed in Germany 1952 - 1963


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


1957
Dortmunder Union
Pilsener
47
1042.8
1007.4
4.61
82.71%
8


1963
Dortmunder Union
Pilsner
44
1042
1006.7
4.41
84.05%
9


1952
Dressler
Lager

1051.8
1009.4
5.53
81.85%
6.5


1963
Elbschloss
Ratsherrn Lager
48
1030.5
1006.3
3.03
79.34%
13


1961
Hackerbräu
Hackerbräu Light
66
1051.7
1014.5
4.65
71.95%
8


1957
Holsten
Holsten Pilsner

1044.7
1007.4
4.86
83.45%
8


1957
Holsten
Holsten Pilsner
42
1044.7
1008.2
4.75
81.66%
8


1961
Holsten
Holsten Lager
40
1044.1
1008.1
4.50
81.63%
7


1961
Holsten
Pilsner Lager
40
1045.5
1000.8
5.59
98.24%
7


1963
Holsten
Pilsner
44
1046.1
1006.7
4.92
85.47%
6


1957
Löwenbräu
Pale Bock
51
1061.9
1014.3
6.20
76.90%
6


1961
Patzenhofer
Patz Lager
42
1041
1007.5
4.36
81.71%
7.5


1959
St. Paul
B.B. Lager

1030.7
1010.3
2.64
66.45%
7


1950
Tucher
Tucher Pils Lager

1055.1
1014.4
5.29
73.87%
15


Source:


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



All of the beers were hideously expensive. To put things into perspective, you could get a pint of Truman's bottled Light Ale for 20d. That's a beer, at 1031.8º slightly stronger than Ratsherrn Lager, for less than half the price. I'm not sure I understand why anyone would voluntarily pay more than double the price for their beer.






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