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Yet more on Stout in WW II. I'd been dreading writing this section of my new book, "Blitzkrieg!".Not because I haven't collected enough material. Quite the opposite. I've too much. Pruning it down is taking a lot of work. Plus there are all the nice tables I have to assemble.

Let’s compare the Stouts of four major London brewers. Where we have three 8d per pint beers and two 7d per pint ones.

There’s quite a bit of difference in the hopping rate across the different breweries. Ranging for 6 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt at Courage to 7.5 lbs at Truman. Enough, I’m sure, to have made Truman’s beers noticeably more hoppy.

A relatively poor rate of attenuation is a feature of all the Stouts for which I have the FG. Though, as these beers were cask-conditioned, the FG when served would have been a little lower.
If you're wondering why there's no Fuller's Stout, it's because they discontinued it in 1931.




Pre-WW II London Stout


Year
Brewer
Beer
OG
OG after primings
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl


1937
Courage
Stout
1047.6
1052
1015.8
4.21
66.86%
5.92
1.15


1936
Barclay Perkins
BS
1051.1

1017.0
4.51
66.72%
6.37
1.48


1937
Whitbread
LS
1044.6

1013.0
4.18
70.85%
6.94
1.26


1931
Truman
BS
1055.7
1060.5



7.5
1.53


1931
Truman
St
1046.8
1050.4



7.5
1.29


Sources:


Courage brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number ACC/2305/08/263.


Barclay Perkins brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number ACC/2305/01/621.


Whitbread brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/09/125.


Truman gyle book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number B/THB/C/114.





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