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As I've finished recounting my last holiday, I cab crack on with boring you about the 1970s. This time, it's the turn of malt."Keg!" is coming along nicely. I've over 40,000 words and I've hardly even started on the personal memories and recipes. Of which there will be more than I expected. I'll have recipes from 12 breweries, in total. Somewhere around 50 or 60 recipes in all.
Let's get on with the extract.
On average, around a fifth of the UK barley harvest was used for malting. Even that wasn’t all dedicated to beer, as considerable quantities were also used for distilling. As we can see in table below.
Much malting was still being performed by brewers and distillers. A lot more than I would have expected. A massive 44% in 1971 and, despite declining a little, it was still 37% in 1979. And in absolute terms had actually increased.
I’m quite surprised to see just how much malt was used in distilling. In some years, such as 1973 and 1974, it was only slightly less than that used in brewing.
My guess is that the malt imports were almost all in the form of lager malt or other continental malt types. I can’t see UK brewers using foreign-made pale malt in their beer.
I’d love to know what the destination of the malt exports were. Presumably to countries which were brewing British-style beers.
What else was malt used for other than brewing and distilling? Well, an obvious one is malt vinegar. A fair bit must have been for that. And there are some foods – such as biscuits – which can contain malt.
Malt production and usage (thousand tonnes)
Year
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
Malt Production:
Brewer-Maltsters
230
247
271
247
250
265
263
257
301
Distiller-Maltsters
270
284
291
300
225
245
256
321
291
Sale-Maltsters
640
745
810
915
912
885
877
984
1,019
Total
1,140
1,276
1,372
1,462
1,387
1,395
1,396
1,562
1,611
Malt Imports
31
27
49
78
35
30
46
42
61
Malt Exports
94
94
141
138
119
175
130
164
189
Malt Requirements:
For Brewing
610
623
661
689
712
720
727
735
752
For Distilling
521
561
631
692
566
520
559
536
651
Other purposes
53
52
57
59
61
80
79
70
69
Total
1,184
1,236
1,349
1,440
1,339
1,320
1,365
1,341
1,472
Source:
The Brewers' Society UK Statistical Handbook 1980, page 26.
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As I've finished recounting my last holiday, I cab crack on with boring you about the 1970s. This time, it's the turn of malt."Keg!" is coming along nicely. I've over 40,000 words and I've hardly even started on the personal memories and recipes. Of which there will be more than I expected. I'll have recipes from 12 breweries, in total. Somewhere around 50 or 60 recipes in all.
Let's get on with the extract.
On average, around a fifth of the UK barley harvest was used for malting. Even that wasn’t all dedicated to beer, as considerable quantities were also used for distilling. As we can see in table below.
Much malting was still being performed by brewers and distillers. A lot more than I would have expected. A massive 44% in 1971 and, despite declining a little, it was still 37% in 1979. And in absolute terms had actually increased.
I’m quite surprised to see just how much malt was used in distilling. In some years, such as 1973 and 1974, it was only slightly less than that used in brewing.
My guess is that the malt imports were almost all in the form of lager malt or other continental malt types. I can’t see UK brewers using foreign-made pale malt in their beer.
I’d love to know what the destination of the malt exports were. Presumably to countries which were brewing British-style beers.
What else was malt used for other than brewing and distilling? Well, an obvious one is malt vinegar. A fair bit must have been for that. And there are some foods – such as biscuits – which can contain malt.
Malt production and usage (thousand tonnes)
Year
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
Malt Production:
Brewer-Maltsters
230
247
271
247
250
265
263
257
301
Distiller-Maltsters
270
284
291
300
225
245
256
321
291
Sale-Maltsters
640
745
810
915
912
885
877
984
1,019
Total
1,140
1,276
1,372
1,462
1,387
1,395
1,396
1,562
1,611
Malt Imports
31
27
49
78
35
30
46
42
61
Malt Exports
94
94
141
138
119
175
130
164
189
Malt Requirements:
For Brewing
610
623
661
689
712
720
727
735
752
For Distilling
521
561
631
692
566
520
559
536
651
Other purposes
53
52
57
59
61
80
79
70
69
Total
1,184
1,236
1,349
1,440
1,339
1,320
1,365
1,341
1,472
Source:
The Brewers' Society UK Statistical Handbook 1980, page 26.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/09/malt-production-in-1970s.html)