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I've written quite a bit of my next book this week. About 5,000 words. And pruned out a lot of stuff which I never intended to be in the final book. But just as reference material while I'm writing it.Not sire how many of you give a fuck about my writing process. On with the real topic of this post.
Some brewing records, Barclay Perkins, for example. are very detailed.So detailed, that I can't easily record all the information in my spreadsheet.Things like the prices which they handily supply for all the ingredients.
Having decided to look at the costs of the different malts for the new book, a renewed trawl through the Barclay Perkins brewing records was in order. Not too much work, really. Just as well given how lazy a sod I am.
Not that I have much else to do, other than watch Homes Under the Hammer and Come Dine With Me, now that I'm unemployed.
After a few hours of not particularly taxing work, I'd assembled some fun tables. One of which I'm about to share with you. How much Barclay Perkins paid for their malts during the war.
In general terms. the movement of the prices isn't what you'd expect. That is, rising steadily throughout the war. But that's not what happened. After peaking in 1942, prices fell and remained fairly constant through the end of hostilities and beyond.
There's a very simple explanation for why that occurred: the government stepped it and imposed a maximum price for malting barley. Even so, the cost was about treble the prewar value.
Barclay Perkins malt prices shillings per quarter (336 lbs) 1939 - 1945
date
pale
mild
SA
PA
crystal
amber
brown
lager
Jun. 1939
47
50
49
55
46.5
51.5
53
Jun. 1940
61
89
52
93.5
79
90
84
80
Apr. 1941
56
116
124
83
91
84
118
May 1942
185
195
230
280
185
125
Jan. 1943
155
195
190
158
180
153
Nov./Dec. 1944
150
164
146
146
154.5
Apr. 1945
142
142
157
146
161
152
Aug. 1946
142
142
153
131
147.167
136
1947
147
142
157
131
147.167
136
Source:
Barclay Perkins brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number ACC/2305/01/623, ACC/2305/01/624, ACC/2305/01/625 and ACC/2305/01/627.
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I've written quite a bit of my next book this week. About 5,000 words. And pruned out a lot of stuff which I never intended to be in the final book. But just as reference material while I'm writing it.Not sire how many of you give a fuck about my writing process. On with the real topic of this post.
Some brewing records, Barclay Perkins, for example. are very detailed.So detailed, that I can't easily record all the information in my spreadsheet.Things like the prices which they handily supply for all the ingredients.
Having decided to look at the costs of the different malts for the new book, a renewed trawl through the Barclay Perkins brewing records was in order. Not too much work, really. Just as well given how lazy a sod I am.
Not that I have much else to do, other than watch Homes Under the Hammer and Come Dine With Me, now that I'm unemployed.
After a few hours of not particularly taxing work, I'd assembled some fun tables. One of which I'm about to share with you. How much Barclay Perkins paid for their malts during the war.
In general terms. the movement of the prices isn't what you'd expect. That is, rising steadily throughout the war. But that's not what happened. After peaking in 1942, prices fell and remained fairly constant through the end of hostilities and beyond.
There's a very simple explanation for why that occurred: the government stepped it and imposed a maximum price for malting barley. Even so, the cost was about treble the prewar value.
Barclay Perkins malt prices shillings per quarter (336 lbs) 1939 - 1945
date
pale
mild
SA
PA
crystal
amber
brown
lager
Jun. 1939
47
50
49
55
46.5
51.5
53
Jun. 1940
61
89
52
93.5
79
90
84
80
Apr. 1941
56
116
124
83
91
84
118
May 1942
185
195
230
280
185
125
Jan. 1943
155
195
190
158
180
153
Nov./Dec. 1944
150
164
146
146
154.5
Apr. 1945
142
142
157
146
161
152
Aug. 1946
142
142
153
131
147.167
136
1947
147
142
157
131
147.167
136
Source:
Barclay Perkins brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number ACC/2305/01/623, ACC/2305/01/624, ACC/2305/01/625 and ACC/2305/01/627.
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