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Surprisingly, given their high strength, Strong Scotch Ales were brewed throughout the war years, at least at some breweries. Though the quantities produced were pretty small.

Drybrough, for example, which had brewed their Scotch Ale in batches of 60-odd barrels in 1939, had halved the brew length by 1945. Given the cap placed on the number of standard barrels a brewery could produce, brewing one barrel of Scotch Ale was the equivalent of 2.5 barrels of 60/-. When beer was in short supply, it must have been hard to justify brewing much

The examples from Drybrough, Maclay and William Younger all look quite similar in character. An OG in the 1080º’s, approximately 7% ABV and hopping at around 5lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt.

All of these beers were dark in colour, despite none containing any dark malts, other than a few pounds of chocolate malt in Drybrough’s version. The colour came almost exclusively from caramel adding at racking time.

Ironically, brewers which had continued to brew this type of beer, such as Drybrough, discontinued it in 1945. The result of even tighter restrictions on brewing in the immediate aftermath of the war.




Strong Scotch Ale during WW II


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


3rd May
1939
Maclay
SA
1089
1030
7.81
66.29%
5.00
1.90


29th Aug
1939
Maclay
SA
1082
1022
7.94
73.17%
6.00
2.12


14th Nov
1939
Maclay
SA
1079
1026
7.01
67.09%
5.00
1.70


12th Jan
1940
Drybrough
Burns
1083
1026
7.54
68.67%
5.53
1.91


8th Nov
1940
Drybrough
Burns
1083
1028
7.28
66.27%
5.53
1.86


6th Feb
1941
Drybrough
Burns
1081
1028
7.01
65.43%
4.35
2.01


9th Oct
1941
Drybrough
Burns
1081
1022
7.81
72.84%
4.90
3.08


29th Oct
1942
Drybrough
Burns
1076
1029.5
6.15
61.18%
4.74
1.47


5th Feb
1943
Drybrough
Burns
1076
1028.5
6.28
62.50%
4.89
1.55


22nd Jul
1943
Drybrough
Burns
1076
1027
6.48
64.47%
4.86
1.59


13th Jul
1944
Drybrough
Burns
1076
1025
6.75
67.11%
4.43
1.49


12th Oct
1944
Drybrough
Burns
1076
1032
5.82
57.89%
4.20
1.37


23rd Feb
1945
Drybrough
Burns
1076
1031.5
5.89
58.55%
4.02
1.26


15th Nov
1939
Younger, Wm.
1
1084
1033.5
6.68
60.12%
4.74
1.58


Sources:


Maclay brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document numbers M/6/1/1/3 and M/6/1/1/4.


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


William Younger brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number WY/6/1/2/76.




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