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The short answer is: bugger all. I have more detail than that, should you be arsed.
There may have been innumerable variations of Stout brewed in the 1850s. It doesn’t mean that they sold in anything like similar quantities. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the exact numbers for each of the different variations? Luckily for us, brewers noted all sorts of extra stuff in their records. Presumably for their own use, but dead handy for me.
An example was someone at Truman writing annual totals for each of their many Stouts at the bottom of a brewing record. These figures exclude the Ales brewed by Truman.
More than three-quarters of the Black Beer they produced was one form or other of Porter. Most of that, the standard Running version. Still fairly decent quantities of aged Porter being brewed, if insufficient to have been blended at the classic ratio of one-third aged to two-thirds fresh. Either less aged beer was used, or, more likely, much was being sold young.
Government of Crimea, in case you’re interested, means Porter brewed under contract for British troops fighting in Crimea.
A decent amount of Cooking Stout was being bashed out. Over 56,000 barrels, taking Running and Keeping combined. While the other five can only manage 14,000 between them. Stronger Stouts were clearly a minority interest. Bottled ones even more so.
Truman Porter and Stout output 1855 - 1856
Beer
OG
barrels brewed
% of total
% of Stout
Runner
1056.5
200,519
61.76%
Govt. of Crimea
1059.3
5,303
1.63%
Keeper
1051.2
36,293
11.18%
Bottling Porter
1057.1
7,413
2.28%
Export Porter
1057.1
4,190
1.29%
Running Stout
1072.3
46,648
14.37%
65.76%
Keeping Stout
1073.1
9,983
3.07%
14.07%
Bottling Stout
1069.8
850
0.26%
1.20%
Export Stout X
1070.9
900
0.28%
1.27%
Export Stout XX
1085.9
5,781
1.78%
8.15%
Double Stout & Imperial Stout
1082.5 & 1087.8
6,774
2.09%
9.55%
Total Stout
70,936
21.85%
Total
324,654
Source:
Truman brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number B/THB/C/057.
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The short answer is: bugger all. I have more detail than that, should you be arsed.
There may have been innumerable variations of Stout brewed in the 1850s. It doesn’t mean that they sold in anything like similar quantities. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the exact numbers for each of the different variations? Luckily for us, brewers noted all sorts of extra stuff in their records. Presumably for their own use, but dead handy for me.
An example was someone at Truman writing annual totals for each of their many Stouts at the bottom of a brewing record. These figures exclude the Ales brewed by Truman.
More than three-quarters of the Black Beer they produced was one form or other of Porter. Most of that, the standard Running version. Still fairly decent quantities of aged Porter being brewed, if insufficient to have been blended at the classic ratio of one-third aged to two-thirds fresh. Either less aged beer was used, or, more likely, much was being sold young.
Government of Crimea, in case you’re interested, means Porter brewed under contract for British troops fighting in Crimea.
A decent amount of Cooking Stout was being bashed out. Over 56,000 barrels, taking Running and Keeping combined. While the other five can only manage 14,000 between them. Stronger Stouts were clearly a minority interest. Bottled ones even more so.
Truman Porter and Stout output 1855 - 1856
Beer
OG
barrels brewed
% of total
% of Stout
Runner
1056.5
200,519
61.76%
Govt. of Crimea
1059.3
5,303
1.63%
Keeper
1051.2
36,293
11.18%
Bottling Porter
1057.1
7,413
2.28%
Export Porter
1057.1
4,190
1.29%
Running Stout
1072.3
46,648
14.37%
65.76%
Keeping Stout
1073.1
9,983
3.07%
14.07%
Bottling Stout
1069.8
850
0.26%
1.20%
Export Stout X
1070.9
900
0.28%
1.27%
Export Stout XX
1085.9
5,781
1.78%
8.15%
Double Stout & Imperial Stout
1082.5 & 1087.8
6,774
2.09%
9.55%
Total Stout
70,936
21.85%
Total
324,654
Source:
Truman brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number B/THB/C/057.
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