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The next table covers a large area of southern England. Pretty much everywhere in the Southeast, except for London.
If you removed the Ind Coope beers the averages would look very different. A couple of examples from them are unusually strong, one even over 1040º. An exceptionally high gravity for a Mild in the post-war years.
Most of the other examples are either just above or below 1030º. Very high degrees of attenuation, however, leave almost all above 3% ABV. With the exception of London, very high attenuation seems to have been a feature of most Mild Ales after the war.
The very low FGs of these beers are even more significant when you consider that many, if not all, would have been primed with a sugar solution at racking time. Based on the practice at Barclay Perkins, which recording primings in its brewing records, the primings would have raised the gravity by 2-3º. That many of the beers have FG2 below 1005º tells me that there must have been a considerable amount of secondary fermentation in the cask.
The colours are all over the place, ranging from 20.5 (the shade of a pale Bitter) to 120 (very dark brown). Several of the breweries – Fremlin, Ind Coope and Shepherd Neame – all produced both pale and dark versions of Mild. That said, the overwhelming majority of examples are dark.
Southern Mild Ales 1949 - 1954
Year
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (d)
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
colour
1953
Benskins
X
13
1031.5
84
1949
Brickwoods
Mild Ale
13
1033.2
1004.8
3.70
85.54%
20.5
1951
Cobb & Co.
X
12
1028.4
88
1951
Daniells
Mild Ale
14
1029.9
1003.9
3.38
86.96%
110
1951
Flowers
Mild Ale
15
1030.7
1003.9
3.49
87.30%
120
1951
Fremlin
XXL
12
1029.4
22
1951
Fremlin
XX
12
1030.6
60
1950
Gardner
X
12
1030.0
96
1950
Ind Coope
MA
12
1027.9
1008.9
2.46
68.10%
67
1950
Ind Coope
Mild Ale
15
1039.2
1009.6
3.84
75.51%
75
1951
Ind Coope
Ale
12
1029.4
1008
2.77
72.79%
52
1951
Ind Coope
X
13
1030.9
26
1952
Ind Coope
X
13
1036.7
102
1953
Ind Coope
X
14
1033.4
100
1954
Ind Coope
Strong Mild Ale
19
1043.5
1010.7
4.26
75.40%
110
1951
JJ Young
Mild Ale
14
1030.6
1004.8
3.35
84.31%
65
1951
Morrell
Mild Ale
14
1029.7
1003.7
3.38
87.54%
80
1949
Portsmouth United
Mild Ale
13
1029.3
1003.1
3.41
89.42%
19
1951
Portsmouth United
Mild Ale
14
1029.3
1005.1
3.14
82.59%
75
1950
Shepherd Neame
X
1030.1
63
1951
Shepherd Neame
X
12
1031.4
24
1951
Simonds
Mild Dark Sweet
14
1031.5
1005.7
3.35
81.90%
80
1951
Tamplin
Mild Ale
14
1029.9
1005.2
3.21
82.61%
70
1951
Tomson & Wotton
X
12
1029.2
80
1951
Wells
Mild Ale
14
1028.6
1005
3.07
82.52%
75
1951
Wells & Winch
Mild Ale
14
1029.3
1008.6
2.68
70.65%
80
Average
13.4
1031.3
1006.1
3.30
80.88%
70.9
Sources:
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002.
Truman Gravity Book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number B/THB/C/252.
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The next table covers a large area of southern England. Pretty much everywhere in the Southeast, except for London.
If you removed the Ind Coope beers the averages would look very different. A couple of examples from them are unusually strong, one even over 1040º. An exceptionally high gravity for a Mild in the post-war years.
Most of the other examples are either just above or below 1030º. Very high degrees of attenuation, however, leave almost all above 3% ABV. With the exception of London, very high attenuation seems to have been a feature of most Mild Ales after the war.
The very low FGs of these beers are even more significant when you consider that many, if not all, would have been primed with a sugar solution at racking time. Based on the practice at Barclay Perkins, which recording primings in its brewing records, the primings would have raised the gravity by 2-3º. That many of the beers have FG2 below 1005º tells me that there must have been a considerable amount of secondary fermentation in the cask.
The colours are all over the place, ranging from 20.5 (the shade of a pale Bitter) to 120 (very dark brown). Several of the breweries – Fremlin, Ind Coope and Shepherd Neame – all produced both pale and dark versions of Mild. That said, the overwhelming majority of examples are dark.
Southern Mild Ales 1949 - 1954
Year
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (d)
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
colour
1953
Benskins
X
13
1031.5
84
1949
Brickwoods
Mild Ale
13
1033.2
1004.8
3.70
85.54%
20.5
1951
Cobb & Co.
X
12
1028.4
88
1951
Daniells
Mild Ale
14
1029.9
1003.9
3.38
86.96%
110
1951
Flowers
Mild Ale
15
1030.7
1003.9
3.49
87.30%
120
1951
Fremlin
XXL
12
1029.4
22
1951
Fremlin
XX
12
1030.6
60
1950
Gardner
X
12
1030.0
96
1950
Ind Coope
MA
12
1027.9
1008.9
2.46
68.10%
67
1950
Ind Coope
Mild Ale
15
1039.2
1009.6
3.84
75.51%
75
1951
Ind Coope
Ale
12
1029.4
1008
2.77
72.79%
52
1951
Ind Coope
X
13
1030.9
26
1952
Ind Coope
X
13
1036.7
102
1953
Ind Coope
X
14
1033.4
100
1954
Ind Coope
Strong Mild Ale
19
1043.5
1010.7
4.26
75.40%
110
1951
JJ Young
Mild Ale
14
1030.6
1004.8
3.35
84.31%
65
1951
Morrell
Mild Ale
14
1029.7
1003.7
3.38
87.54%
80
1949
Portsmouth United
Mild Ale
13
1029.3
1003.1
3.41
89.42%
19
1951
Portsmouth United
Mild Ale
14
1029.3
1005.1
3.14
82.59%
75
1950
Shepherd Neame
X
1030.1
63
1951
Shepherd Neame
X
12
1031.4
24
1951
Simonds
Mild Dark Sweet
14
1031.5
1005.7
3.35
81.90%
80
1951
Tamplin
Mild Ale
14
1029.9
1005.2
3.21
82.61%
70
1951
Tomson & Wotton
X
12
1029.2
80
1951
Wells
Mild Ale
14
1028.6
1005
3.07
82.52%
75
1951
Wells & Winch
Mild Ale
14
1029.3
1008.6
2.68
70.65%
80
Average
13.4
1031.3
1006.1
3.30
80.88%
70.9
Sources:
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002.
Truman Gravity Book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number B/THB/C/252.
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