Blog Tracker
10-02-2021, 07:07
Visit the Shut up about Barclay Perkins site (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2021/02/boddington-bitter-hops-1945-1970.html)
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FB3vQeE8vYo/YCFqmh-d4BI/AAAAAAAAiu4/oCv6ms9cu-ITEqT_RwngsbL8mjeV4XQQQCLcBGAsYHQ/w311-h400/Boddington_Bitter_cask.jpg (https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FB3vQeE8vYo/YCFqmh-d4BI/AAAAAAAAiu4/oCv6ms9cu-ITEqT_RwngsbL8mjeV4XQQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s479/Boddington_Bitter_cask.jpg)
We're finally at the end of our look at Boddington Bitter in the quarter century immediately following WW II.
In a way, it's dead dull. Nothing other than English hops, mostly without any variety or even region of growth specified. And, in the later part of the time slice, without the harvest year, either.
When they could be arsed to mention the year, it was mostly reasonably recent. By that, I mean from the most recent season or the one before that. Pretty typical of the practice at most breweries at the time.
There's probably some significance in the fact that the only varieties mentioned by time are quite recent ones - Brewer's Gold and Northern Brewer. Likely because they didn't consider mentioning the obvious varieties such as Fuggles or Goldings.
The lack of foreign hops isn't a surprise. In the period covers, the UK was about self-sufficient in hops, which hadn't been the case in the preceding 100 years.
Boddington Bitter hops 1945 - 1970
Date
Year
hop 1
hop 2
hop 3
dry hop 1
dry hop 2
9th Apr
1945
English 1943
Kent 1944
Kent 1944
15th Apr
1946
English 1945
English 1945
3 lbs hopulon
English 1945
3rd Jan
1947
English 1945
English 1945
3 lbs hopulon
Brewer's Gold 1945
5th Apr
1948
English 1946
English 1947
3 lbs hopulon
Brewers Gold 1946
1st Apr
1949
English 1947
English 1947
English 1947
6th Apr
1950
English 1948
English 1949
English 1949
Brewer's Gold 1949
English 1949
24th Dec
1951
Brewer's Gold 1949
English 1950
Brewer's Gold 1949
English 1950
6th Jan
1966
English
English
English
Northern Brewer
English
9th Jan
1968
English
English
English
20th Apr
1970
English
English
English
Sources:
Boddington brewing records held at Manchester Central Library, document numbers M693/405/129, M693/405/130 and M693/405/133.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2021/02/boddington-bitter-hops-1945-1970.html)
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FB3vQeE8vYo/YCFqmh-d4BI/AAAAAAAAiu4/oCv6ms9cu-ITEqT_RwngsbL8mjeV4XQQQCLcBGAsYHQ/w311-h400/Boddington_Bitter_cask.jpg (https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FB3vQeE8vYo/YCFqmh-d4BI/AAAAAAAAiu4/oCv6ms9cu-ITEqT_RwngsbL8mjeV4XQQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s479/Boddington_Bitter_cask.jpg)
We're finally at the end of our look at Boddington Bitter in the quarter century immediately following WW II.
In a way, it's dead dull. Nothing other than English hops, mostly without any variety or even region of growth specified. And, in the later part of the time slice, without the harvest year, either.
When they could be arsed to mention the year, it was mostly reasonably recent. By that, I mean from the most recent season or the one before that. Pretty typical of the practice at most breweries at the time.
There's probably some significance in the fact that the only varieties mentioned by time are quite recent ones - Brewer's Gold and Northern Brewer. Likely because they didn't consider mentioning the obvious varieties such as Fuggles or Goldings.
The lack of foreign hops isn't a surprise. In the period covers, the UK was about self-sufficient in hops, which hadn't been the case in the preceding 100 years.
Boddington Bitter hops 1945 - 1970
Date
Year
hop 1
hop 2
hop 3
dry hop 1
dry hop 2
9th Apr
1945
English 1943
Kent 1944
Kent 1944
15th Apr
1946
English 1945
English 1945
3 lbs hopulon
English 1945
3rd Jan
1947
English 1945
English 1945
3 lbs hopulon
Brewer's Gold 1945
5th Apr
1948
English 1946
English 1947
3 lbs hopulon
Brewers Gold 1946
1st Apr
1949
English 1947
English 1947
English 1947
6th Apr
1950
English 1948
English 1949
English 1949
Brewer's Gold 1949
English 1949
24th Dec
1951
Brewer's Gold 1949
English 1950
Brewer's Gold 1949
English 1950
6th Jan
1966
English
English
English
Northern Brewer
English
9th Jan
1968
English
English
English
20th Apr
1970
English
English
English
Sources:
Boddington brewing records held at Manchester Central Library, document numbers M693/405/129, M693/405/130 and M693/405/133.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2021/02/boddington-bitter-hops-1945-1970.html)