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What could be more Christmasy than imported Lager just after WW II? Just about anything, I suppose. But here goes, anyway.

In 1947, supplies of foreign Lager reappeared, initially principally from Denmark and Holland. Those from Germany would take longer to arrive, for the simple reason that in the parts of West Germany occupied by the British and Americans commercially brewing wasn’t allowed for several years.

One thing is very obvious when looking at the Lagers imported after WW II: many foreign breweries were making beers specifically for the UK market. How do we know that? Because of the low gravity. No continental brewery, other than in Czechoslovakia, brewed Lagers under 1040º.

You can see here how the post-war style of Lager is starting to coalesce: a pale beer with a gravity in the low-1030ºs. This is the type of beer that became the nation’s favourite in the 1980s. Though by the 1970s, most Lager, even things like Carlsberg and Heineken, were being brewed locally.

More surprising are the German Bocks, which must have been hideously expensive, being both very strong and imported. There can’t have been a huge market in the UK for such beers.

The two Pilsner Urquell beers are clearly the 12º and the 10º. Quite odd to see the latter being exported, though I suppose it fitted in better with UK strength expectations.

A lot of Lager was still being sold in bottled form immediately after the war. But as the 1950s progressed, draught Lager would become increasingly more common. By the early 1960s, draught Lager was the norm rather than the exception.




Bottled Foreign Lager after WW II


Year
Brewer
country
Beer
Style
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
colour


1951
Artois
Belgium
Stella Lager
Lager
1052.4
1011.1
5.38
78.82%
10.5


1950
Ekla (Brussels)
Belgium
Lager
Lager
1037.5
1009.6
3.62
74.40%
10


1950
Lamot
Belgium
Lux Lager
Lager
1048.9
1009
5.20
81.60%
7


1950
Lamot
Belgium
Lager
Lager
1037.4
1010.2
3.53
72.73%
6


1950
Pilsner Urquell
Czechoslovakia
Lager
Lager
1049
1013.5
4.61
72.45%
10.5


1950
Pilsner Urquell
Czechoslovakia
Lager
Lager
1038.9
1010.3
3.71
73.52%
11


1947
Carlsberg
Denmark
Pilsner
Lager
1035.6
1008.5
3.52
76.12%
13.5


1950
Carlsberg
Denmark
Lager
Lager
1031.8
1010.9
2.70
65.72%
13


1947
Tuborg
Denmark
Pilsner
Lager
1036.6
1009.1
3.57
75.14%
11.5


1950
Tuborg
Denmark
Lager
Lager
1032.9
1006.1
3.48
81.46%
11.5


1952
Holsten
Germany
Bock (Light)
Bock
1067.8
1020.4
6.16
69.91%
28


1952
Holsten
Germany
Bock (Dark)
Bock
1045.2
1010.5
4.51
76.77%
59


1950
Lowenbrau
Germany
Atomator
Bock
1076.6
1025.7
6.60
66.45%
85


1950
Lowenbrau
Germany
Pale Bock Beer
Bock
1067.9
1013.9
7.06
79.53%
7.5


1950
Spatenbrau
Germany
Doppel Spaten
Bock
1076.7
1029.6
6.09
61.41%
80


1950
Tucher
Germany
Tucher Pils Lager
Lager
1055.1
1014.4
5.29
73.87%
15


1950
Amstel
Holland
Lager
Lager
1033.6
1008.1
3.31
75.89%
15.5


1950
Breda
Holland
Lager (light)
Lager
1036.9
1007.8
3.78
78.86%
13.5


1947
Z.H.B.
Holland
Lager
Lager
1032.4
1008.2
3.14
71.91%
11.5


1950
Z.H.B.
Holland
Lager
Lager
1033.7
1008.4
3.28
75.07%
12


Sources:


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




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