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10-02-2023, 07:15
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Someone did request this. A long-term chart of Whitbread Stout gravity. So it's not my fault, OK. Though I had already constructed the chart before they asked.
Let's crack on with the pretty chart, then.
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The gravity kicks off pretty low. That's a result of the Napoleonic Wars and the high taxation required to pay for them. The gravity then rises in reaction to a reduction in the malt tax. Then falls again when the malt tax was increased in 1819.
In 1830 there's another rise. I assume prompted by the abolition of excise duty on beer.
The fall in 1854 is when the malt tax was increased to pay for the Crimean War. I had wondered about why there was a fall in gravity in the early 1860s, as there was no increase in the malt tax then. But there was the introduction of a much higher charge for brewing licences, which was a shilling per quarter (336 lbs) of malt.
1880, of course, is when the malt tax was abolished, and the system of taxation based on OG was introduced.
Not quite sure what happened in 1846 and 1875. But, in general, all the troughs correspond to tax increases and the peaks to tax reductions.
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Someone did request this. A long-term chart of Whitbread Stout gravity. So it's not my fault, OK. Though I had already constructed the chart before they asked.
Let's crack on with the pretty chart, then.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMsz3nHpXjSjmxZz1Iv7WGVRuXBV-f2dGKTETruqfZ6bP7rzKn1d87azih-ZH8Jnn9cRdWsAXipuXzCs6vBCzrYr8XKLKjYZnkjnpfb9txW9B 6eaOQzTKGP_DL0bOTQXE78oev3uwSBzSyr7_6DDKxz3O-MkoYJ6NB_zzOY95UyYWvdCStSTjFsh4B/w640-h368/Whitbread_Stout_OG_1816_1880.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMsz3nHpXjSjmxZz1Iv7WGVRuXBV-f2dGKTETruqfZ6bP7rzKn1d87azih-ZH8Jnn9cRdWsAXipuXzCs6vBCzrYr8XKLKjYZnkjnpfb9txW9B 6eaOQzTKGP_DL0bOTQXE78oev3uwSBzSyr7_6DDKxz3O-MkoYJ6NB_zzOY95UyYWvdCStSTjFsh4B/s851/Whitbread_Stout_OG_1816_1880.jpg)
The gravity kicks off pretty low. That's a result of the Napoleonic Wars and the high taxation required to pay for them. The gravity then rises in reaction to a reduction in the malt tax. Then falls again when the malt tax was increased in 1819.
In 1830 there's another rise. I assume prompted by the abolition of excise duty on beer.
The fall in 1854 is when the malt tax was increased to pay for the Crimean War. I had wondered about why there was a fall in gravity in the early 1860s, as there was no increase in the malt tax then. But there was the introduction of a much higher charge for brewing licences, which was a shilling per quarter (336 lbs) of malt.
1880, of course, is when the malt tax was abolished, and the system of taxation based on OG was introduced.
Not quite sure what happened in 1846 and 1875. But, in general, all the troughs correspond to tax increases and the peaks to tax reductions.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/02/whitbread-stout-og-1816-1880.html)