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Loads and loads of sugars. Two full tables worth. Starting with the ones I understand.
Malt extract was a surprisingly popular ingredient. Unlike other sugars, it was added in the mash tun, not the copper. For the simple reason that it was there for extra enzymes. Something many UK brewers worried about after WW II. Note that the quantities in the Fullers and Shepherd Neame examples are tiny.
Next, it’s the invert sugars: No. 1 and No. 3. Now, the former, being very pale, is exactly what you would expect in a Style like Light Ale. But No. 3? That’s just odd. Especially in the quantity found in the Shepherd Neame beer, 11%. Which explains why it’s by far the darkest in colour of the set.
It’s interesting that glucose and fructose, the component parts of invert sugar, appear in beers which also include a numbered invert. Not sure what the point of that would be. Possibly because it was paler in colour than the numbered sugars, even No. 1.
Finally, cane sugar. Which I assume means raw cane sugar. Making it the simplest of all the sugars used.
Now for the difficult bit: all the weird proprietary sugars.
I’ve little idea what any of them are. Wortex seems to be a wort extender, which would be a combination of invert sugar and maltose.
Caramel. I know what that is. Though not something you’d expect to see much of it in a style like Light Ale. And, it this case, that’s all there is. A tiny amount, presumably for colour correction.
Light Ale sugars 1968 - 1984
Year
Brewer
Beer
malt extract
no. 1 sugar
no. 3 sugar
glucose
fructose
cane
1977
Adnams
LBA
15.03%
11.28%
1971
Boddington
Bod
5.36%
1984
Eldridge Pope
BAK
1968
Fullers
LA
0.65%
1.94%
1.29%
1972
Shepherd Neame
LA
0.55%
10.93%
1969
Truman
LK
7.85%
Sources:
Adnams brewing record held at the brewery.
Boddington brewing record held at Manchester Central Library, document number M693/405/134.
Eldridge Pope brewing record.
Fullers brewing record held at the brewery.
Shepherd Neame brewing book held at the brewery, document number 1971 H-5O5.
Truman brewing record held by Derek Prentice.
Light Ale proprietary sugars 1968 - 1984
Year
Brewer
Beer
Fla
Br
Flowsweet
PEX
Wortex
caramel
1977
Adnams
LBA
0.40%
1971
Boddington
Bod
4.29%
4.29%
1984
Eldridge Pope
BAK
8.96%
1968
Fullers
LA
1.29%
1972
Shepherd Neame
LA
6.56%
1969
Truman
LK
Sources:
Adnams brewing record held at the brewery.
Boddington brewing record held at Manchester Central Library, document number M693/405/134.
Eldridge Pope brewing record.
Fullers brewing record held at the brewery.
Shepherd Neame brewing book held at the brewery, document number 1971 H-5O5.
Truman brewing record held by Derek Prentice.
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Loads and loads of sugars. Two full tables worth. Starting with the ones I understand.
Malt extract was a surprisingly popular ingredient. Unlike other sugars, it was added in the mash tun, not the copper. For the simple reason that it was there for extra enzymes. Something many UK brewers worried about after WW II. Note that the quantities in the Fullers and Shepherd Neame examples are tiny.
Next, it’s the invert sugars: No. 1 and No. 3. Now, the former, being very pale, is exactly what you would expect in a Style like Light Ale. But No. 3? That’s just odd. Especially in the quantity found in the Shepherd Neame beer, 11%. Which explains why it’s by far the darkest in colour of the set.
It’s interesting that glucose and fructose, the component parts of invert sugar, appear in beers which also include a numbered invert. Not sure what the point of that would be. Possibly because it was paler in colour than the numbered sugars, even No. 1.
Finally, cane sugar. Which I assume means raw cane sugar. Making it the simplest of all the sugars used.
Now for the difficult bit: all the weird proprietary sugars.
I’ve little idea what any of them are. Wortex seems to be a wort extender, which would be a combination of invert sugar and maltose.
Caramel. I know what that is. Though not something you’d expect to see much of it in a style like Light Ale. And, it this case, that’s all there is. A tiny amount, presumably for colour correction.
Light Ale sugars 1968 - 1984
Year
Brewer
Beer
malt extract
no. 1 sugar
no. 3 sugar
glucose
fructose
cane
1977
Adnams
LBA
15.03%
11.28%
1971
Boddington
Bod
5.36%
1984
Eldridge Pope
BAK
1968
Fullers
LA
0.65%
1.94%
1.29%
1972
Shepherd Neame
LA
0.55%
10.93%
1969
Truman
LK
7.85%
Sources:
Adnams brewing record held at the brewery.
Boddington brewing record held at Manchester Central Library, document number M693/405/134.
Eldridge Pope brewing record.
Fullers brewing record held at the brewery.
Shepherd Neame brewing book held at the brewery, document number 1971 H-5O5.
Truman brewing record held by Derek Prentice.
Light Ale proprietary sugars 1968 - 1984
Year
Brewer
Beer
Fla
Br
Flowsweet
PEX
Wortex
caramel
1977
Adnams
LBA
0.40%
1971
Boddington
Bod
4.29%
4.29%
1984
Eldridge Pope
BAK
8.96%
1968
Fullers
LA
1.29%
1972
Shepherd Neame
LA
6.56%
1969
Truman
LK
Sources:
Adnams brewing record held at the brewery.
Boddington brewing record held at Manchester Central Library, document number M693/405/134.
Eldridge Pope brewing record.
Fullers brewing record held at the brewery.
Shepherd Neame brewing book held at the brewery, document number 1971 H-5O5.
Truman brewing record held by Derek Prentice.
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