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One of the big difference between Scottish beer and English beer i the immediate post-WW II period was that sytyles were much more formalised.

While English Bitters tended to be all over the shop in terms of OG, from 1028º to 1050º, there was a more rigid system of names and strength North of the border. In England, Best Bitter was a very vague term and really didn't tell you a whole lot about a beer's strength. If the brewery brewed an Ordinary Bitter, too, then at least you could assume the Best Bitter was stronger. But there were plenty of beers called Best Bitter that were only 1036º or so.

Not so in Scotland. If you ordered a Light (or 60/-) you knew you were going to get a beer of around 3% ABV. Though what colour it was depended on where you were drinking it. Light was, irinically enough, often coloured to be dark brown. But not always.

I always assumed 60/- was just the Scottish version of Dark Mild. Whereas it's really just a weak Pale Ale. Lightly hopped, and dark, it did a pretty good job of impersonating Dark Mild. And did indded fill Mild's slot on the bar. Genuine Mild, however, was pretty well stone dead in Scotland after WW II. William Younger is the only brewery I've come across who brewed one. Presumably because they had tioed houses in England.

70/- next.



Draught Scottish 60/- Pale Ale 1949 - 1959


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


1949
Aitken
60/-
15
1030.5
1007
3.05
77.05%



1958
Bernard
No. 3

1031
1010
2.72
67.74%



1949
Campbell, Hope & King
90/-

1031.5
1006
3.31
80.95%



1948
Fowler
54/- Ale

1028
1007
2.72
75.00%



1949
Mackay
90/-

1031
1004
3.51
87.10%



1951
Maclay
PA 6d

1031
1012
2.51
61.29%



1953
Steel Coulson
P. 60/-
14
1030






1947
Usher
PA 60/-

1029.5
1010.5
2.45
64.41%



1959
Wm. Younger
XXP Bitter
22
1030.4
1005.7
3.21
81.25%
21



Average


1030.3
1007.8
2.94
74.35%



Sources:


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


Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002.


T & J Bernard's brewing records held at the Scottish Brewing Archive.


Maclay brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number M/6/1/1/28


document from the Steel Coulson archive held at the Scottish Brewing Archives





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