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I'm concluding my series on Scottish draught Pale Ale with the strongest, 80/-, or Export. The Scottish equivalent of Best Bitter.

As with 60/- and 70/-, the gravity range is quite narrow, a degree or two either side of 1044º. It's very convenient if, like me, you trying to categorise beers. English beers are all over the place and I have to resort to artificial categorisations.

I'm pleased to see one example that has clearly been coloured darker: the Younger's keg Bitter. That was probably only 25, as brewed. To give you an idea of how dark 55 is, Bitter was 20-25, Dark Mild around 80, on that scale.

The Younger's beer came under different names. In Scotland, it was 80/- or Export, in England it was usually sold as IPA. Which is a bit odd as the IPA they brewed in the 19th century was called XXP, which by 1945 was the name of their 60/-, at least in the brewery.

Does anyone still brew a classic 80/-? I guess Belhaven must. And Caledonian.




Draught Scottish 80/- Pale Ale 1947 - 1960


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


1951
Maclay
Exp

1043
1014
3.84
67.44%



1964
McEwans
Special
20
1043.6
1007.6
4.50
82.57%
20


1959
Wm. Younger
Keg Bitter
19
1043.7
1007.8
4.68
82.15%
55


1960
Wm. Younger
Younger's Bitter
18
1043.9
1010.8
4.30
75.40%



1947
Gordon & Blair
Pale Ale
20
1045.5
1004.5
5.36
90.11%



1958
Bernard
Special No. 1

1046
1013
4.28
71.74%




Average

19.3
1044.3
1009.6
4.49
78.23%



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


Which Beer Report, 1960, pages 171 - 173.





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