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The war hadn’t caused any radical rewriting of Lees recipes. Other than the addition of flaked barley. Something over which the brewery had no say.

Substituting flaked barley for some of the base malt is the only significant change to the recipes. Interestingly, Lees dropped flaked barley from their Bitter recipe as soon as the war ended. But retained it for all their other beers.

The proportion of glucose and invert sugar was a little lower in 1946 than in 1939, but not massively so. The war had no impact on the types of sugar Lees used.

There was no real variation between the hops used in the different beers. All were English grown in either the 1944 and 1945 season. Hop imports came to virtually a complete halt during the war. Though this made little difference to Lees as before the war they had used exclusively English hops.

The hops were split approximately two-thirds 1944 harvest to one-third 1945. Though the two most expensive beers, Bitter and “C” Ale, did receive slightly more of the fresher hops.




Lees grists in 1946


Date
Beer
OG
pale malt
black malt
flaked barley
glucose
invert sugar
CWA primings


1st Apr
BM
1033
72.00%
1.33%
16.00%
5.33%
5.33%



6th Mar
Bot. B
1030
72.61%
1.91%
15.29%
5.10%
5.10%



17th May
K
1028
67.46%
1.78%
14.20%
4.73%
4.73%
7.10%


26th Mar
B
1038
86.26%
0.09%

5.85%
7.80%



25th Mar
“C” Ale
1052
69.96%
1.35%
10.76%
3.59%
14.35%



Source:


Lees brewing records held at the brewery






Lees hops in 1946


Date
Beer
OG
English 1944 (lbs)
English 1944
English 1945 (lbs)
English 1945
total


1st Apr
BM
1033
70
70.00%
30
30.00%
100


6th Mar
Bot. B
1030
50
71.43%
20
28.57%
70


17th May
K
1028
50
71.43%
20
28.57%
70


26th Mar
B
1038
70
66.67%
35
33.33%
105


25th Mar
“C” Ale
1052
36
66.67%
18
33.33%
54


Source:


Lees brewing records held at the brewery




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