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We're down to the last dregs of the 1971 analyses. Sets which don't have a huge number of beers in them.
Let's kick off with Scotland. From which we have two beers, both brewed by Scottish & Newcastle. They're incredibly different value. With Tartan being incredibly poor value and Scotch pretty good. Tartan is a bit lower in gravity but cost 4p per pint more. I suppose they had to recoup all the money put into advertising Tartan somehow. Not really much more I can say about these beers.
And, finally, the last set from the Southwest. Again, just two examples. And from the opposite ends of the brewing industry. The one being from one of the handful of surviving home brew pubs and the other from one of the Big Six.
Both beers are pretty weak and look to me very much like examples of Boy's Bitter. They come out to around 5º weaker than the national average.
What really surprised me were the prices. I'd have expected them to be the other way around, with the home brew beer cheap and the Big Six beer expensive. At just 12p, Starbright is one of the cheapest Bitters analysed. Though this type of beer was often substituting for Mild Ale, so the pricing should be seen in that context.
Just the overview to go now.
Scottish Bitter in 1971
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (p)
º gravity per p
% ABV per p
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
Younger
Tartan Keg
16
2.21
0.22
1035.3
1008.6
3.46
75.64%
Scottish & Newcastle
Scotch
12
3.02
0.31
1036.2
1007.6
3.72
79.14%
Average
14
2.61
0.26
1035.8
1008.1
3.59
77.39%
Source:
Sunday Mirror - Sunday 21 March 1971, page 25.
Southwestern Bitter in 1971
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (p)
º gravity per p
% ABV per p
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
All Nations
Home Brew
14
2.31
0.22
1032.3
1008.8
3.04
72.76%
Whitbread
Starbright
12
2.67
0.27
1032.1
1007.5
3.19
76.64%
Average
13
2.49
0.24
1032.2
1008.2
3.12
74.70%
Source:
Sunday Mirror - Sunday 21 March 1971, page 25.
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We're down to the last dregs of the 1971 analyses. Sets which don't have a huge number of beers in them.
Let's kick off with Scotland. From which we have two beers, both brewed by Scottish & Newcastle. They're incredibly different value. With Tartan being incredibly poor value and Scotch pretty good. Tartan is a bit lower in gravity but cost 4p per pint more. I suppose they had to recoup all the money put into advertising Tartan somehow. Not really much more I can say about these beers.
And, finally, the last set from the Southwest. Again, just two examples. And from the opposite ends of the brewing industry. The one being from one of the handful of surviving home brew pubs and the other from one of the Big Six.
Both beers are pretty weak and look to me very much like examples of Boy's Bitter. They come out to around 5º weaker than the national average.
What really surprised me were the prices. I'd have expected them to be the other way around, with the home brew beer cheap and the Big Six beer expensive. At just 12p, Starbright is one of the cheapest Bitters analysed. Though this type of beer was often substituting for Mild Ale, so the pricing should be seen in that context.
Just the overview to go now.
Scottish Bitter in 1971
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (p)
º gravity per p
% ABV per p
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
Younger
Tartan Keg
16
2.21
0.22
1035.3
1008.6
3.46
75.64%
Scottish & Newcastle
Scotch
12
3.02
0.31
1036.2
1007.6
3.72
79.14%
Average
14
2.61
0.26
1035.8
1008.1
3.59
77.39%
Source:
Sunday Mirror - Sunday 21 March 1971, page 25.
Southwestern Bitter in 1971
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (p)
º gravity per p
% ABV per p
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
All Nations
Home Brew
14
2.31
0.22
1032.3
1008.8
3.04
72.76%
Whitbread
Starbright
12
2.67
0.27
1032.1
1007.5
3.19
76.64%
Average
13
2.49
0.24
1032.2
1008.2
3.12
74.70%
Source:
Sunday Mirror - Sunday 21 March 1971, page 25.
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