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Following on from my post about other (than IPA) bottled Bass beers after WW II, here are their other draught beers. Hopefully there's at least one of you who finds this crap interesting.

It's not the most captivating set of beers I've ever seen. A couple of Milds and the rest Keg Bitters. I guess that's what they were brewing in Bass's Burton brewery back then. Well sort of.

Splitting apart Bass and Worthington at this point is tricky. I don't really know how the two Milds were branded. They could well have been sold under the Worthington name. The two breweries had merged between the wars and, especially in the post-war period, had a habit of selling the same beer under both brands, just with a different name. White Shield and Bass Red Triangle, for example.

It looks to me as if the same was going on with Bass Keg and Worthington E. The gravities are suspiciously similar.

The 1950 Mild Ale is exceptionally strong for that date. It looks more like a pre-war Best Mild. The colour, interestingly, is semi-dark. Which was still quite a common colour for Mild just after the war.

Maybe it was different in Stoffordshire, but I can't recall ever coming across a Burton-brewed Mild from Bass back in the 1970s and 1980s. Draught Bass and White Shield were common in Bass Charrington pubs all over the country, but Mild tended to be sourced from a more local brewery. In Yorkshire that meant XXXX Mild from Tadcaster. In the West Midlands, M & B Mild from Birmingham.

Worthington beers next. Should I be in an arsing moood.



Other Bass draught beers after WW II


Year
Beer
Style
Price per pint
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
colour


1950
Mild Ale
Mild
15
1041.4
1008
4.34
80.68%
40


1977
Light Mild
Mild

1033.1






1960
Worthington "E"
Pale Ale
18
1041.8
1006.5
4.60
84.45%



1967
Bass Keg
Pale Ale
28
1038
1007
4.03
81.58%
23


1972
Worthington E
Pale Ale
16
1037.8
1007.1
4.00
81.22%



1977
Worthington Best Bitter
Pale Ale

1036






1977
Joules Bitter
Pale Ale

1035






Sources:


Which Beer Report, 1960, pages 171 - 173.


Daily Mirror July 10th 1972, page 15


Good Beer Guide 1978


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





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