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Still a few loose AK ends to tie up. Fascinating stuff like which sugars were used after WW II. Yes, it's another post that's just a table with a little of my bullshit around it. Exactly what you've been waiting for all your life.Shepherd Neame is easy to deal with. They didn't use sugar at all in their Pale Ales. That didn't take long, did it? There's nothing I can add to that.
Strong's example contains the most total sugar at 13.59%. That's only slightly above the 1952 average, which was 12.35%. Given that there were brewers, such as Guinness, which used no sugar at all, over 15% was probably typical for those brewers which did include sugar in their recipes.
The only sugar to appear multiple times is invert, shoeing up in two forms at Strong and in unspecified form at both Strong and Eldridge Pope.
Later Eldridge Pope preferred to use something called flowsweet in their beers. I've absolutely no idea what that was, other than some sort of proprietary sugar.
Wondering why the 1982 Eldridge Pope AK contained no sugar? Because it was parti-gyled with Goldie, Eldridge Pope's Barley Wine (a beer which seems to have served as a prototype for the more renowned Hardy Ale).
AK sugars after WW II
Date
Year
Brewer
Beer
no. 3 sugar
invert
candy
glucose
flowsweet
total sugar
22nd Jan
1946
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.00%
15th Jul
1947
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.00%
19th Mar
1952
Strong
SAK
1.94%
7.77%
3.88%
13.59%
3rd Jan
1964
Eldridge Pope
BAK
9.40%
9.40%
6th Jan
1967
Eldridge Pope
BAK
4.43%
3.69%
8.13%
17th May
1982
Eldridge Pope
BAK
0.00%
27th Jun
1984
Eldridge Pope
BAK
12.86%
12.86%
Sources:
Strong brewing record, number 79A01-A3-3-27.
Eldridge Pope brewing record.
Shepherd Neame brewing record held at the brewery.
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Still a few loose AK ends to tie up. Fascinating stuff like which sugars were used after WW II. Yes, it's another post that's just a table with a little of my bullshit around it. Exactly what you've been waiting for all your life.Shepherd Neame is easy to deal with. They didn't use sugar at all in their Pale Ales. That didn't take long, did it? There's nothing I can add to that.
Strong's example contains the most total sugar at 13.59%. That's only slightly above the 1952 average, which was 12.35%. Given that there were brewers, such as Guinness, which used no sugar at all, over 15% was probably typical for those brewers which did include sugar in their recipes.
The only sugar to appear multiple times is invert, shoeing up in two forms at Strong and in unspecified form at both Strong and Eldridge Pope.
Later Eldridge Pope preferred to use something called flowsweet in their beers. I've absolutely no idea what that was, other than some sort of proprietary sugar.
Wondering why the 1982 Eldridge Pope AK contained no sugar? Because it was parti-gyled with Goldie, Eldridge Pope's Barley Wine (a beer which seems to have served as a prototype for the more renowned Hardy Ale).
AK sugars after WW II
Date
Year
Brewer
Beer
no. 3 sugar
invert
candy
glucose
flowsweet
total sugar
22nd Jan
1946
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.00%
15th Jul
1947
Shepherd Neame
AK
0.00%
19th Mar
1952
Strong
SAK
1.94%
7.77%
3.88%
13.59%
3rd Jan
1964
Eldridge Pope
BAK
9.40%
9.40%
6th Jan
1967
Eldridge Pope
BAK
4.43%
3.69%
8.13%
17th May
1982
Eldridge Pope
BAK
0.00%
27th Jun
1984
Eldridge Pope
BAK
12.86%
12.86%
Sources:
Strong brewing record, number 79A01-A3-3-27.
Eldridge Pope brewing record.
Shepherd Neame brewing record held at the brewery.
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