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After my general bullshit about Scotch Ale, here's a chance to see what happened to one particular example across WW II.

You could be excused for thinking that I'm war-obsessed. Though I sort of am. Is that wrong for a pacifist? Or totally appropriate? Don't bother answering either of those questions. I'll be destroying my sleep pondering them in bed tonight.

Drybrough is a wonderfully unfashionable brewery. Just the type I like. A typical one-recipe dull Scottish brewery. Then incorporated into the satanic Watney corporation to churn out masses of Keg Heavy. Not a brewery anyone seems to have fond memories of.

Their Burns Ale is a typical Scotch Ale of the post-WW I type. That is, just a super-strong Scottish Pale Ale. All the breweries, except William Younger, whose records I've seen brewed Scotch Ale this way. I think it's fair to assume this was the standard method.

They continued to brew Burns Ale at much its full strength almost all the way through the war. Not sure exactly when they dropped it, but it seems to have been about when the war ended. Then returned sometime in 1948.

That's typical: the toughest years for UK brewing were the three or four aster the war ended.



Drybrough Burns Ale 1936 - 1954


Date
Year
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl


12th Feb
1936
1084
1030
7.14
64.29%
6.30
2.48


12th Jan
1940
1083
1026
7.54
68.67%
6.03
2.31


8th Nov
1940
1083
1028
7.28
66.27%
5.53
1.86


6th Feb
1941
1081
1028
7.01
65.43%
4.35
2.01


9th Oct
1941
1081
1022
7.81
72.84%
4.90
3.08


29th Oct
1942
1076
1029.5
6.15
61.18%
4.74
1.47


5th Feb
1943
1076
1028.5
6.28
62.50%
4.89
1.55


22nd Jul
1943
1076
1027
6.48
64.47%
4.86
1.59


13th Jul
1944
1076
1025
6.75
67.11%
4.43
1.49


12th Oct
1944
1076
1032
5.82
57.89%
4.20
1.37


23rd Feb
1945
1076
1031.5
5.89
58.55%
4.02
1.26


11th Aug
1948
1070
1031
5.16
55.71%
4.33
1.30


20th Oct
1954
1073
1032.5
5.36
55.48%
4.67
1.40


Sources:


Drybrough brewing records held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number D/6/1/1/4 and D/6/1/1/5.





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