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Now the new book is almost done, it's time for a little preview. This is something I literally just finished writing five minutes ago. On the ever fescinating topic of Scottish Pale Ales.

Scottish brewers were, for the most part pretty dull when it came to recipes. Most only had the one.

I’ve only bothered with one of a brewery’s Pale Ale range, as all were parti-gyled together. Except at the ever contrary William Younger. Not only weren’t their Pale Ales parti-gyled together, they all had slightly different recipes. The crazy bastards.



Scottish Pale Ale grists 1948 - 1965: malts and adjuncts


Year
Brewer
Beer
OG
pale malt
black malt
enzymic malt
flaked maize
flaked barley


1958
Bernard
Pale 1/1
1031
75.20%
0.82%

13.08%



1948
Drybrough
P 60/-
1030
79.11%
0.78%
1.65%

10.55%


1954
Drybrough
60/-
1032
74.52%
2.40%
0.64%
6.01%
6.01%


1960
Drybrough
60/-
1031
74.95%
0.44%

12.49%



1965
Drybrough
60/-
1031
74.45%
0.06%

12.07%



1951
Maclay
PA 6d
1030
86.33%






1956
Maclay
PA 6d
1030
74.82%


11.51%



1965
Maclay
PA 6d
1030
74.82%


11.51%



1962
Thomas Usher
P 1/4
1036
69.23%


6.29%



1957
Younger, Robert
60/-
1030
77.03%


13.75%



1960
Younger, Robert
60/-
1030
71.39%


19.99%



1949
Younger, Wm.
XXP Btg
1031
92.86%



7.14%


1949
Younger, Wm.
XXP
1031.5
88.24%



11.76%


1949
Younger, Wm.
Ext
1047
87.50%



12.50%


1958
Younger, Wm.
XXPQ
1033
60.00%


26.67%



1958
Younger, Wm.
XXPSL
1038
58.62%


27.59%



1958
Younger, Wm.
EXT
1046
60.94%


29.69%



1958
Younger, Wm.
XXPS Btg
1038
62.16%


32.43%



Sources:


T & J Bernard brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number TJB6/1/1/1.


Drybrough brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number D/6/1/1/6.


Drybrough brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number D/6/1/1/7.


Drybrough brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number D/6/1/1/8.


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


Maclay brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number M/6/1/1/35.


Maclay brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number M/6/1/1/44.


Thomas Usher brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number TU/6/9/1.


Robert Younger brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number RY/6/1/2.


Robert Younger brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number RY/6/1/3.


William Younger brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number WY/6/1/2/88.


William Younger brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number WY/6/1/3/112.




I’ve lumped the malts and adjuncts together because there aren’t many of either. Mostly it’s just pale malt and flaked maize or barley. A couple of examples have a small amount of black malt for colour. But there’s no crystal malt in sight.

William Younger loved to stuff their beers with adjuncts. Before WW II most of their beers were 40% grits. The beers above aren’t quite that bad, but those from the 1950s all still have over 25% flaked maize.

Two sugar tables for this set.



Scottish Pale Ale grists 1948 - 1965: sugars


Year
Brewer
Beer
OG
no. 1 sugar
invert
Avona
Hydrol


1958
Bernard
Pale 1/1
1031

6.54%
4.36%



1948
Drybrough
P 60/-
1030


2.64%



1954
Drybrough
60/-
1032


3.21%
3.21%


1960
Drybrough
60/-
1031

6.81%
1.51%



1965
Drybrough
60/-
1031

7.38%
0.67%



1951
Maclay
PA 6d
1030
9.59%





1956
Maclay
PA 6d
1030
7.67%





1965
Maclay
PA 6d
1030
7.67%





1962
Thomas Usher
P 1/4
1036

17.48%




1957
Younger, Robert
60/-
1030

4.58%

3.67%


1960
Younger, Robert
60/-
1030

3.81%

3.81%


1949
Younger, Wm.
XXP Btg
1031






1949
Younger, Wm.
XXP
1031.5






1949
Younger, Wm.
Ext
1047






1958
Younger, Wm.
XXPQ
1033






1958
Younger, Wm.
XXPSL
1038

2.30%




1958
Younger, Wm.
EXT
1046

3.13%




1958
Younger, Wm.
XXPS Btg
1038







Invert sugar is as popular as ever. No. 1 being what you’d expect in Pale Ales. The unspecific “invert” is most likely either No. 1 or No. 2 invert. Avona and Hydrol are enigmatic proprietary sugars.



Scottish Pale Ale grists 1948 - 1965: sugars again


Year
Brewer
Beer
OG
cane
candy
caramel
malt extract
other sugar


1958
Bernard
Pale 1/1
1031







1948
Drybrough
P 60/-
1030



0.88%
4.39%


1954
Drybrough
60/-
1032



0.80%
3.21%


1960
Drybrough
60/-
1031


1.51%
0.76%
1.51%


1965
Drybrough
60/-
1031



2.68%
2.68%


1951
Maclay
PA 6d
1030


0.24%

3.84%


1956
Maclay
PA 6d
1030


0.24%
1.92%
3.84%


1965
Maclay
PA 6d
1030


0.24%
1.92%
3.84%


1962
Thomas Usher
P 1/4
1036


0.00%
2.10%
4.90%


1957
Younger, Robert
60/-
1030


0.05%
0.92%



1960
Younger, Robert
60/-
1030


0.05%
0.95%



1949
Younger, Wm.
XXP Btg
1031







1949
Younger, Wm.
XXP
1031.5







1949
Younger, Wm.
Ext
1047







1958
Younger, Wm.
XXPQ
1033
8.89%
4.44%





1958
Younger, Wm.
XXPSL
1038
6.90%
4.60%





1958
Younger, Wm.
EXT
1046
6.25%






1958
Younger, Wm.
XXPS Btg
1038
5.41%







A more normal lot of sugars. Though exactly what is meant by cane and candy isn’t 100% clear. I assume that cane refers to some partially refined cane sugar. There’s lots of malt extract again, always in tiny quantities. The largest amount used is under 3% of the total grist.

Pale malt, flaked adjunct and sugar. That’s all there is to Scottish Pale Ale grists.

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