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Given the high percentage of malt in these beers, it's little surprise that they don't contain a huge amount of sugar. Loads of different types, mind.
Only one, No. 2 invert, appears in more than one, Greene King and Fullers. But only in tiny quantities, the largest amount is less than 2.5%. You'll note that it's far less than before the war, when it was just shy of 10%. Doubtless the reduction was due to difficulties in sugar supply.
CWA, the other sugar, I found was described as a starch conversion syrup, that is an enzymatic syrup. I assume it must have been added in the mash tun rather than the kettle.
Intense was a caramel of some sort. Pretty obvious from both the name and the minute amount employed. Its use will have been for colour correction rather than flavour of fermentable material.
The malt extract used by Shepherd Neame was EDME, a type of diastatic malt syrup. I suppose it's technically a type of sugar, despite being derived from malt. The candy sugar used in one example was presumably employed as primings..
AK sugars during WW II
Date
Year
Brewer
Beer
malt extract
no. 2 sugar
glucose
CWA
Intense
candy
23rd Jan
1940
Greene King
AK
2.35%
2.35%
8th May
1940
Fullers
AK
0.63%
0.63%
0.09%
20th May
1940
Shepherd Neame
AK
25th May
1941
Fullers
AK
1.39%
1.39%
0.09%
4th Feb
1943
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.69%
18th Dec
1943
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.66%
21st Feb
1944
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.64%
0.64%
27th Nov
1944
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.66%
22nd Feb
1945
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.66%
7th May
1945
Shepherd Neame
AK
1.32%
Sources:
Fullers brewing records held at the brewery.
Greene King brewing record held at the brewery, document number AC93/1/14 .
Shepherd Neame brewing record held at the brewery.
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Given the high percentage of malt in these beers, it's little surprise that they don't contain a huge amount of sugar. Loads of different types, mind.
Only one, No. 2 invert, appears in more than one, Greene King and Fullers. But only in tiny quantities, the largest amount is less than 2.5%. You'll note that it's far less than before the war, when it was just shy of 10%. Doubtless the reduction was due to difficulties in sugar supply.
CWA, the other sugar, I found was described as a starch conversion syrup, that is an enzymatic syrup. I assume it must have been added in the mash tun rather than the kettle.
Intense was a caramel of some sort. Pretty obvious from both the name and the minute amount employed. Its use will have been for colour correction rather than flavour of fermentable material.
The malt extract used by Shepherd Neame was EDME, a type of diastatic malt syrup. I suppose it's technically a type of sugar, despite being derived from malt. The candy sugar used in one example was presumably employed as primings..
AK sugars during WW II
Date
Year
Brewer
Beer
malt extract
no. 2 sugar
glucose
CWA
Intense
candy
23rd Jan
1940
Greene King
AK
2.35%
2.35%
8th May
1940
Fullers
AK
0.63%
0.63%
0.09%
20th May
1940
Shepherd Neame
AK
25th May
1941
Fullers
AK
1.39%
1.39%
0.09%
4th Feb
1943
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.69%
18th Dec
1943
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.66%
21st Feb
1944
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.64%
0.64%
27th Nov
1944
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.66%
22nd Feb
1945
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.66%
7th May
1945
Shepherd Neame
AK
1.32%
Sources:
Fullers brewing records held at the brewery.
Greene King brewing record held at the brewery, document number AC93/1/14 .
Shepherd Neame brewing record held at the brewery.
Hops next time.
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