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As there’s not much going on, sugar-wise, I’ve lumped in the hops.
Caramel and lactose, that’s it. With the lactose disappearing in late 1942. Not sure that was really the case. As all the labels I see from around this tine are Milk Stout. It could be that, like Whitbread, they’d started adding it at racking time. On the other hand, it does appear in the brewing records from 1949. Perhaps they just couldn’t source it during the latter stages of the war.
Interesting that, despite being a bottled beer, Younger’s Stout was dry-hopped. Until 1944, that is. At the start of the war, Younger dry-hipped almost every beer, even their Milds. Then they began reducing of beers to get this treatment. The Milds, in late 1941. Abd, in October 1943, most of the Pale Ales. I’m guessing they were saving most of their hops for the copper.
Younger wasn’t very imaginative when it came to hops. Mostly just Kent all the way. Between the wars, they had regularly employed American hops described as “Pacific”, which could mean one of several regions on the West Coast of North America, including British Columbia. OP21 was a new hop variety introduced during the war. Also known as Brewer’s Friend.
With the war making hop imports impossible, no shock that Younger went to 100% Kent.
William Younger DBS Btlg sugar and hops 1939 - 1944
Date
Year
OG
caramel
lactose
dry hops (oz / barrel)
hops
14th Nov
1939
1066
4.12%
6.19%
3.05
Kent (1937, 1938)
11th Oct
1940
1061
2.08%
4.17%
2.78
Kent (1938, 1939)
27th Aug
1941
1060
2.06%
2.06%
2.82
Kent (1940)
4th Mar
1942
1056
2.20%
2.20%
2.83
Kent (1940)
31st Mar
1942
1053
2.27%
2.27%
2.75
Kent (1940)
5th May
1942
1051
2.27%
2.27%
2.71
Kent (1941)
27th Jan
1943
1053
2.25%
2.77
Kent (1941)
2nd Nov
1943
1053
2.25%
2.81
Kent (1942), OP21 (1942)
9th Nov
1943
1053
2.25%
2.73
Kent (1942), OP21 (1942)
18th May
1944
1051
2.25%
0.00
Kent (1943)
Source:
William Younger brewing records held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document numbers WY/6/1/2/76, WY/6/1/2/77, WY/6/1/2/78, WY/6/1/2/7 and WY/6/1/2/81.
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As there’s not much going on, sugar-wise, I’ve lumped in the hops.
Caramel and lactose, that’s it. With the lactose disappearing in late 1942. Not sure that was really the case. As all the labels I see from around this tine are Milk Stout. It could be that, like Whitbread, they’d started adding it at racking time. On the other hand, it does appear in the brewing records from 1949. Perhaps they just couldn’t source it during the latter stages of the war.
Interesting that, despite being a bottled beer, Younger’s Stout was dry-hopped. Until 1944, that is. At the start of the war, Younger dry-hipped almost every beer, even their Milds. Then they began reducing of beers to get this treatment. The Milds, in late 1941. Abd, in October 1943, most of the Pale Ales. I’m guessing they were saving most of their hops for the copper.
Younger wasn’t very imaginative when it came to hops. Mostly just Kent all the way. Between the wars, they had regularly employed American hops described as “Pacific”, which could mean one of several regions on the West Coast of North America, including British Columbia. OP21 was a new hop variety introduced during the war. Also known as Brewer’s Friend.
With the war making hop imports impossible, no shock that Younger went to 100% Kent.
William Younger DBS Btlg sugar and hops 1939 - 1944
Date
Year
OG
caramel
lactose
dry hops (oz / barrel)
hops
14th Nov
1939
1066
4.12%
6.19%
3.05
Kent (1937, 1938)
11th Oct
1940
1061
2.08%
4.17%
2.78
Kent (1938, 1939)
27th Aug
1941
1060
2.06%
2.06%
2.82
Kent (1940)
4th Mar
1942
1056
2.20%
2.20%
2.83
Kent (1940)
31st Mar
1942
1053
2.27%
2.27%
2.75
Kent (1940)
5th May
1942
1051
2.27%
2.27%
2.71
Kent (1941)
27th Jan
1943
1053
2.25%
2.77
Kent (1941)
2nd Nov
1943
1053
2.25%
2.81
Kent (1942), OP21 (1942)
9th Nov
1943
1053
2.25%
2.73
Kent (1942), OP21 (1942)
18th May
1944
1051
2.25%
0.00
Kent (1943)
Source:
William Younger brewing records held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document numbers WY/6/1/2/76, WY/6/1/2/77, WY/6/1/2/78, WY/6/1/2/7 and WY/6/1/2/81.
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