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Low-gravity and poorly-attenuated Stouts had been brewed in Scotland since the late 19th century. For example, in 1888, William Younger’s S3 Stout was barely 4% ABV and hopped at just 4lbs per quarter (338 lbs) of malt, a very low rate. Even lower, as some, or all, of the hops were spent.
This trend to ever weaker and sweeter Stouts continued, reaching its ridiculous peak after WW II.
Some of these beers are so weak, they could have legally been sold to children, being around the same strength as shandy. Did people drink such beers straight? Because if you did, you weren’t going to have a very merry evening down the pub.
McEwan’s Imperial Stout is really a joke, being under 3% ABV. Is this the weakest Imperial Stout ever brewed? Sweet Stouts were brewed elsewhere in the UK, but never as ridiculously weak and poorly-attenuated as the most extreme Scottish examples.
Scottish weak bottled Stout after WW II
Year
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (d)
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
1949
Aitken
Stout
1038.5
1020
2.38
48.05%
1948
Belhaven
No. 1 Stout
1035
1011
3.11
68.57%
1949
Belhaven
No. 1 Stout
1035.5
1015.5
2.58
56.34%
1949
Blair
Invalid Stout
1035
1016
2.45
54.29%
1948
Maclachlan
Stout
1032
1009.5
2.91
70.31%
1949
McEwan
Imperial Stout
1039.5
1017
2.90
56.96%
1947
Tennent
Stout
13
1030.7
1018.18
1.61
40.78%
1948
Tennent
Stout
1030
1015.5
1.86
48.33%
1949
Tennent
Stout
1032
1017.5
1.86
45.31%
1949
Tennent
Stout
15
1034.9
1018.3
2.13
47.56%
1948
Younger, Geo
Extra Stout
1036.5
1017.5
2.44
52.05%
Sources:
Thomas Usher Gravity Book held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number TU/6/11.
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002.
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Low-gravity and poorly-attenuated Stouts had been brewed in Scotland since the late 19th century. For example, in 1888, William Younger’s S3 Stout was barely 4% ABV and hopped at just 4lbs per quarter (338 lbs) of malt, a very low rate. Even lower, as some, or all, of the hops were spent.
This trend to ever weaker and sweeter Stouts continued, reaching its ridiculous peak after WW II.
Some of these beers are so weak, they could have legally been sold to children, being around the same strength as shandy. Did people drink such beers straight? Because if you did, you weren’t going to have a very merry evening down the pub.
McEwan’s Imperial Stout is really a joke, being under 3% ABV. Is this the weakest Imperial Stout ever brewed? Sweet Stouts were brewed elsewhere in the UK, but never as ridiculously weak and poorly-attenuated as the most extreme Scottish examples.
Scottish weak bottled Stout after WW II
Year
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (d)
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
1949
Aitken
Stout
1038.5
1020
2.38
48.05%
1948
Belhaven
No. 1 Stout
1035
1011
3.11
68.57%
1949
Belhaven
No. 1 Stout
1035.5
1015.5
2.58
56.34%
1949
Blair
Invalid Stout
1035
1016
2.45
54.29%
1948
Maclachlan
Stout
1032
1009.5
2.91
70.31%
1949
McEwan
Imperial Stout
1039.5
1017
2.90
56.96%
1947
Tennent
Stout
13
1030.7
1018.18
1.61
40.78%
1948
Tennent
Stout
1030
1015.5
1.86
48.33%
1949
Tennent
Stout
1032
1017.5
1.86
45.31%
1949
Tennent
Stout
15
1034.9
1018.3
2.13
47.56%
1948
Younger, Geo
Extra Stout
1036.5
1017.5
2.44
52.05%
Sources:
Thomas Usher Gravity Book held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number TU/6/11.
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002.
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