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Loads of you seemed to enjoy my detailed look at Boddington Bitter 1971 to 1987. Why let the fun end there?Why, indeed? Looking at the preceding decades, stretching back to the end of WW II, would be instructive. To that end, I've been rummaging around in in the Boddington's records from the quarter century following WW II. A couple of disvoveries have come my way.
Why I've found tends to confirm something I've long suspected: that the decades before I started drinking were some of the least dynamic in UK brewing. At least in terms of recipes and strength.
At the end of the was, Boddington Bitter was a decent strength: 1037º and a touch over 4% ABV, on account of the high degree or attenuation. The gravity rose a couple of degrees after the war, peaking at 1040º in the 1950s. The gravity slipped in the 1960s and by the end of the decade was lower than it had been in 1945.
There's a general downward trend in the hopping rate, falling from 7 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt on 1945 to 6 lbs per quarter in 1970.
It's a shame that I only have the colour for the 1060s examples. Between 1966 and 1968 Boddington Bitter became quite a bit lighter. Quite deliberately as it coincides with a recipe change.
We'll see exactly what that change was next time.
Boddington Bitter 1945 - 1970
Date
Year
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl
dry hops (oz / barrel)
colour
9th Apr
1945
1037
1006
4.10
83.78%
7.00
1.07
3.67
15th Apr
1946
1037
1006
4.10
83.78%
6.46
0.97
2.31
3rd Jan
1947
1037
1007
3.97
81.08%
6.82
1.01
3.21
5th Apr
1948
1039.5
1006
4.43
84.81%
7.32
1.21
3.30
1st Apr
1949
1039
1005
4.50
87.18%
6.08
0.96
3.08
6th Apr
1950
1038.25
1005
4.40
86.93%
6.40
1.01
3.24
24th Dec
1951
1040
1005
4.63
87.50%
5.78
0.94
3.01
6th Jan
1966
1038.5
1004
4.56
89.61%
5.49
0.85
3.10
18
9th Jan
1968
1036.5
1005
4.17
86.30%
5.96
0.94
0.00
12
20th Apr
1970
1035.5
1003
4.30
91.55%
5.96
0.92
0.00
15.5
Sources:
Boddington brewing records held at Manchester Central Library, document numbers M693/405/129, M693/405/130 and M693/405/133.
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Loads of you seemed to enjoy my detailed look at Boddington Bitter 1971 to 1987. Why let the fun end there?Why, indeed? Looking at the preceding decades, stretching back to the end of WW II, would be instructive. To that end, I've been rummaging around in in the Boddington's records from the quarter century following WW II. A couple of disvoveries have come my way.
Why I've found tends to confirm something I've long suspected: that the decades before I started drinking were some of the least dynamic in UK brewing. At least in terms of recipes and strength.
At the end of the was, Boddington Bitter was a decent strength: 1037º and a touch over 4% ABV, on account of the high degree or attenuation. The gravity rose a couple of degrees after the war, peaking at 1040º in the 1950s. The gravity slipped in the 1960s and by the end of the decade was lower than it had been in 1945.
There's a general downward trend in the hopping rate, falling from 7 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt on 1945 to 6 lbs per quarter in 1970.
It's a shame that I only have the colour for the 1060s examples. Between 1966 and 1968 Boddington Bitter became quite a bit lighter. Quite deliberately as it coincides with a recipe change.
We'll see exactly what that change was next time.
Boddington Bitter 1945 - 1970
Date
Year
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
lbs hops/ qtr
hops lb/brl
dry hops (oz / barrel)
colour
9th Apr
1945
1037
1006
4.10
83.78%
7.00
1.07
3.67
15th Apr
1946
1037
1006
4.10
83.78%
6.46
0.97
2.31
3rd Jan
1947
1037
1007
3.97
81.08%
6.82
1.01
3.21
5th Apr
1948
1039.5
1006
4.43
84.81%
7.32
1.21
3.30
1st Apr
1949
1039
1005
4.50
87.18%
6.08
0.96
3.08
6th Apr
1950
1038.25
1005
4.40
86.93%
6.40
1.01
3.24
24th Dec
1951
1040
1005
4.63
87.50%
5.78
0.94
3.01
6th Jan
1966
1038.5
1004
4.56
89.61%
5.49
0.85
3.10
18
9th Jan
1968
1036.5
1005
4.17
86.30%
5.96
0.94
0.00
12
20th Apr
1970
1035.5
1003
4.30
91.55%
5.96
0.92
0.00
15.5
Sources:
Boddington brewing records held at Manchester Central Library, document numbers M693/405/129, M693/405/130 and M693/405/133.
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