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I'm so excited about my new favourite book. The one about brewing in Berlin from 1890 to 1945. Especially all the lovely, juicy, sexy numbers. I could just stare at them all day. Except my family is around most of the time. Have to wait until they've gone to bed. Then I can fully give myself fully to those filthy statistics.A post almost exclusively consisting of numbers, then. What everyone is surely waiting for.
Top-fermenting beer might have appeared to be in terminal decline, but there was something which could turn that around. WW I.
Not quite such good news, seeing as beer production collapsed. And strengths collapsed even more in the latter war years, no stronger than 3.5º Plato. The low gravities were the reason for the upsurge in top fermentation. Bottom-fermenting yeast struggled with such weedy worts. As I posted about recently (https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2020/05/why-there-was-comeback-of-top.html).
Blog post written, I can now relax and get stuck into some Abt.
Berlin beer production 1907 - 1918
Fiscal year
bottom-fermenting
top-fermenting
total
% bottom
% top
1907
3,951,173
1,459,371
5,410,544
73.03%
26.97%
1908
3,888,680
1,232,758
5,121,438
75.93%
24.07%
1909
3,976,651
1,135,561
5,112,212
77.79%
22.21%
1910
4,034,880
1,084,602
5,119,482
78.81%
21.19%
1911
4,259,391
1,158,274
5,417,665
78.62%
21.38%
1912
4,350,958
910,976
5,261,934
82.69%
17.31%
1913
4,534,549
859,849
5,394,398
84.06%
15.94%
1914
3,840,409
719,395
4,559,804
84.22%
15.78%
1915
2,949,718
433,546
3,383,264
87.19%
12.81%
1916
1,922,751
493,940
2,416,691
79.56%
20.44%
1917
901,913
375,117
1,277,030
70.63%
29.37%
1918
Figures not published
Source:
Beiträge zur Geschichte des Berliner Brauwesens und seiner Organisation by Karl Bullemer, Berlin, 1959, pages 80 and 114.
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I'm so excited about my new favourite book. The one about brewing in Berlin from 1890 to 1945. Especially all the lovely, juicy, sexy numbers. I could just stare at them all day. Except my family is around most of the time. Have to wait until they've gone to bed. Then I can fully give myself fully to those filthy statistics.A post almost exclusively consisting of numbers, then. What everyone is surely waiting for.
Top-fermenting beer might have appeared to be in terminal decline, but there was something which could turn that around. WW I.
Not quite such good news, seeing as beer production collapsed. And strengths collapsed even more in the latter war years, no stronger than 3.5º Plato. The low gravities were the reason for the upsurge in top fermentation. Bottom-fermenting yeast struggled with such weedy worts. As I posted about recently (https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2020/05/why-there-was-comeback-of-top.html).
Blog post written, I can now relax and get stuck into some Abt.
Berlin beer production 1907 - 1918
Fiscal year
bottom-fermenting
top-fermenting
total
% bottom
% top
1907
3,951,173
1,459,371
5,410,544
73.03%
26.97%
1908
3,888,680
1,232,758
5,121,438
75.93%
24.07%
1909
3,976,651
1,135,561
5,112,212
77.79%
22.21%
1910
4,034,880
1,084,602
5,119,482
78.81%
21.19%
1911
4,259,391
1,158,274
5,417,665
78.62%
21.38%
1912
4,350,958
910,976
5,261,934
82.69%
17.31%
1913
4,534,549
859,849
5,394,398
84.06%
15.94%
1914
3,840,409
719,395
4,559,804
84.22%
15.78%
1915
2,949,718
433,546
3,383,264
87.19%
12.81%
1916
1,922,751
493,940
2,416,691
79.56%
20.44%
1917
901,913
375,117
1,277,030
70.63%
29.37%
1918
Figures not published
Source:
Beiträge zur Geschichte des Berliner Brauwesens und seiner Organisation by Karl Bullemer, Berlin, 1959, pages 80 and 114.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-resurgence-in-top-fermenting-beer.html)