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Finishing off our look at Boddington's recipes in 1939, today we're looking at the hops they used.
hen it came to hops, Boddington were slightly odd. Every beer had a large number of different hops, some in tiny quantities. Why they used 6 types of copper hops in a beer, I’m not sure. Usually having multiple types of the same ingredient was a way of smoothing out any change when one ingredient needed to be replaced. But most breweries were content with at most three or four types of hops.
Most of the hops were English, though there were small quantities of Oregon and Styrian hops. The quantity used of the latter was so small – 5 lbs out of a total of 150-220 lbs – you have to wonder what the point was. Coming from Yugoslavia, the war inevitably interrupted the supply of Styrian hops.
The hops are as old as they might at first appear. These beers were all brewed in January 1939, meaning that the 1937 harvest hops were only a bit over a year old. As they had all been kept in a cold store – that’s what CS means – they wouldn’t have deteriorated that much.
Analyses of hops from before the war show that Fuggles which contained 6.28% alpha acid when fresh were only down to 5.84% alpha after 14 months. That’s a mere 7% deterioration. Hardly really worth taking into consideration, given that the alpha acid content could vary far more than that from one season to the next.
Unfortunately, for English hops Boddington only recorded the name of the grower, not the variety nor the region where they were grown. Though the chances are that most were either something Goldings-like or Fuggles, as they were the majority of hops grown in England.
Boddington hops in 1939
Beer
Style
OG
Oregon (1937 CS)
Styrian (1937 CS)
English (1937 CS)
English (1937 CS)
English (1937 CS)
English (1938)
total
IP
Pale Ale
1045
30
5
30
50
35
30
180
XX
Mild
1033.8
30
5
45
45
25
150
CC
Strong Ale
1056
35
5
70
30
40
40
220
St
Stout
1045
35
40
25
25
25
150
Source:
Boddington brewing record held at Manchester Central Library, document number M693/405/129.
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Finishing off our look at Boddington's recipes in 1939, today we're looking at the hops they used.
hen it came to hops, Boddington were slightly odd. Every beer had a large number of different hops, some in tiny quantities. Why they used 6 types of copper hops in a beer, I’m not sure. Usually having multiple types of the same ingredient was a way of smoothing out any change when one ingredient needed to be replaced. But most breweries were content with at most three or four types of hops.
Most of the hops were English, though there were small quantities of Oregon and Styrian hops. The quantity used of the latter was so small – 5 lbs out of a total of 150-220 lbs – you have to wonder what the point was. Coming from Yugoslavia, the war inevitably interrupted the supply of Styrian hops.
The hops are as old as they might at first appear. These beers were all brewed in January 1939, meaning that the 1937 harvest hops were only a bit over a year old. As they had all been kept in a cold store – that’s what CS means – they wouldn’t have deteriorated that much.
Analyses of hops from before the war show that Fuggles which contained 6.28% alpha acid when fresh were only down to 5.84% alpha after 14 months. That’s a mere 7% deterioration. Hardly really worth taking into consideration, given that the alpha acid content could vary far more than that from one season to the next.
Unfortunately, for English hops Boddington only recorded the name of the grower, not the variety nor the region where they were grown. Though the chances are that most were either something Goldings-like or Fuggles, as they were the majority of hops grown in England.
Boddington hops in 1939
Beer
Style
OG
Oregon (1937 CS)
Styrian (1937 CS)
English (1937 CS)
English (1937 CS)
English (1937 CS)
English (1938)
total
IP
Pale Ale
1045
30
5
30
50
35
30
180
XX
Mild
1033.8
30
5
45
45
25
150
CC
Strong Ale
1056
35
5
70
30
40
40
220
St
Stout
1045
35
40
25
25
25
150
Source:
Boddington brewing record held at Manchester Central Library, document number M693/405/129.
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