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Been looking at some Eldridge Pope records. And realised that I have a matching price list. Which is always good.
It means that I can match up brew house and trade names. In this case, that's not so difficult as they're mostly the same. Though I'm not so sure about the three different types of XXX, Burton, Old and Mild. I've only got photos of one XXX. Not sure which of the three it is. But they were probably all the same strength as they're the same price.
No surprise that the weakest Mild and weakest Pale Ale are the best value for money. Nor that the top-of-the-range Pale Ale is the worst value.
These are the draught beers. There were also two bottled beers: IPA and Crystal Ale. The former is bottled PA, while the latter I assume is a version of AK, which is called BAK in the brewing records. More proof of the total lack of logic in the use of the terms PA and IPA in the UK.
BAK, incidentally, was one of the beers in the parti-gyle of the very first brew of Hardy Ale.
Eldridge Pope beers in the 1890s
Advert name
price per barrel (shillings)
price per ยบ
brewhouse name
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl
Pale Ale
54
0.94
PA
1057.6
1014.4
5.72
75.00%
10.50
2.56
K Bitter Ale
42
0.82
KK
1051.5
1014.1
4.95
72.58%
6.81
1.50
AK Bitter Ale
36
0.74
AK
1048.5
1011.9
4.84
75.43%
7.03
1.44
XXXX Strong Old Ale
63
0.84
XXXX
1074.8
1023.8
6.74
68.15%
8.95
2.82
M XXX Burton Ale
54
0.83
XXX
1065.1
1018.6
6.16
71.49%
6.25
1.75
XXX Old or Mild Ale
54
0.83
XXX
1065.1
1018.6
6.16
71.49%
6.25
1.75
XX Mild Ale
36
0.73
XX
1049.0
1011.6
4.95
76.27%
4.36
0.91
Stout Double Stout
54
0.88
S
1061.5
1026.9
4.58
56.31%
9.43
2.50
Sources:
Eldridge Pope brewing records
Hampshire Chronicle - Saturday 25 January 1890, page 2.
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Been looking at some Eldridge Pope records. And realised that I have a matching price list. Which is always good.
It means that I can match up brew house and trade names. In this case, that's not so difficult as they're mostly the same. Though I'm not so sure about the three different types of XXX, Burton, Old and Mild. I've only got photos of one XXX. Not sure which of the three it is. But they were probably all the same strength as they're the same price.
No surprise that the weakest Mild and weakest Pale Ale are the best value for money. Nor that the top-of-the-range Pale Ale is the worst value.
These are the draught beers. There were also two bottled beers: IPA and Crystal Ale. The former is bottled PA, while the latter I assume is a version of AK, which is called BAK in the brewing records. More proof of the total lack of logic in the use of the terms PA and IPA in the UK.
BAK, incidentally, was one of the beers in the parti-gyle of the very first brew of Hardy Ale.
Eldridge Pope beers in the 1890s
Advert name
price per barrel (shillings)
price per ยบ
brewhouse name
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl
Pale Ale
54
0.94
PA
1057.6
1014.4
5.72
75.00%
10.50
2.56
K Bitter Ale
42
0.82
KK
1051.5
1014.1
4.95
72.58%
6.81
1.50
AK Bitter Ale
36
0.74
AK
1048.5
1011.9
4.84
75.43%
7.03
1.44
XXXX Strong Old Ale
63
0.84
XXXX
1074.8
1023.8
6.74
68.15%
8.95
2.82
M XXX Burton Ale
54
0.83
XXX
1065.1
1018.6
6.16
71.49%
6.25
1.75
XXX Old or Mild Ale
54
0.83
XXX
1065.1
1018.6
6.16
71.49%
6.25
1.75
XX Mild Ale
36
0.73
XX
1049.0
1011.6
4.95
76.27%
4.36
0.91
Stout Double Stout
54
0.88
S
1061.5
1026.9
4.58
56.31%
9.43
2.50
Sources:
Eldridge Pope brewing records
Hampshire Chronicle - Saturday 25 January 1890, page 2.
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