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19-06-2023, 07:25
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I'm posting this for a reason. Not just that I got a bit tipsy this afternoon at Brett Fest things. Well, that is sort of the reason. Because, without the distraction of meeting people, All would be done and dusted with my latest book. The one I've been working on for five years.
Tomorrow. Tomorrow. I'll finally get the bugger published. It will be a special day. For me, if no-one else.
I’m afraid that I have no details of any specific provincial Brown Ales. As Whitbread’s spies didn’t get out much during the war. No beers called Brown Ale appear in the brewing records I have, either.
Hence the very sparse table.
Luckily, the two beers do encompass the two main types of Brown Ale. Which for simplicity’s sake I call Strong Brown Ale and Weak Brown Ale. I’m reluctant to call the former Northern Brown Ale as there were beers in that style brewed in London. Whitbread Double Brown, for example.
The Newkie Brown was pretty highly attenuated. Was that to compensate for the fall on gravity? As you’ll see later, post-war versions had a higher OG but lower degree of attenuation.
Quite a contrast is the Dam Smith’s beer. Looking more like a Mild. Which is what it probably was. Perhaps primed a little differently. Not so great attenuation means it was probably fairly sweet.
Provincial Brown Ale during WW II
Year
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (d)
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
1940
Newcastle Breweries
Brown Ale
1048.5
1008.5
5.21
82.47%
1942
Samuel Smith
Taddy's Nut Brown Ale
10
1033.4
1009.8
3.06
70.66%
Sources:
Thomas Usher Gravity Book held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number TU/6/11.
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001.
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I'm posting this for a reason. Not just that I got a bit tipsy this afternoon at Brett Fest things. Well, that is sort of the reason. Because, without the distraction of meeting people, All would be done and dusted with my latest book. The one I've been working on for five years.
Tomorrow. Tomorrow. I'll finally get the bugger published. It will be a special day. For me, if no-one else.
I’m afraid that I have no details of any specific provincial Brown Ales. As Whitbread’s spies didn’t get out much during the war. No beers called Brown Ale appear in the brewing records I have, either.
Hence the very sparse table.
Luckily, the two beers do encompass the two main types of Brown Ale. Which for simplicity’s sake I call Strong Brown Ale and Weak Brown Ale. I’m reluctant to call the former Northern Brown Ale as there were beers in that style brewed in London. Whitbread Double Brown, for example.
The Newkie Brown was pretty highly attenuated. Was that to compensate for the fall on gravity? As you’ll see later, post-war versions had a higher OG but lower degree of attenuation.
Quite a contrast is the Dam Smith’s beer. Looking more like a Mild. Which is what it probably was. Perhaps primed a little differently. Not so great attenuation means it was probably fairly sweet.
Provincial Brown Ale during WW II
Year
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (d)
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
1940
Newcastle Breweries
Brown Ale
1048.5
1008.5
5.21
82.47%
1942
Samuel Smith
Taddy's Nut Brown Ale
10
1033.4
1009.8
3.06
70.66%
Sources:
Thomas Usher Gravity Book held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number TU/6/11.
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/06/provincial-brown-ale-during-ww-ii.html)