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Allsopp. I just never tire of them. Hopefully you don't either. Otherwise things are going to get very tedious for you. I'm nowhere near finished banging this particular drum.


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I haven't published a table for, ooh, must be two or three days. Another is long overdue. This one, as the title reveals, covers a period of more than half a century. And it covers quite a wide range of styles. Sadly there are only a couple of Lagers. One of the bizarre twists of the Allsopp story is that they became principally a Lager brewery at one point. From the labels I've seen, they brewed quite a range of Lagers, including a dark Munich-style one.

Luckily there are some typical Burton beers. Burton Ales and IPA. You can probably guess what I'm going to bring up now. Look at the gravities. Pre-WW I, there are only a couple of beers weaker than the IPA: a Mild and a Light Dinner Ale, beers very much in the relegation zone of the strength league. The genuinely strong beers, Burton Ales, are almost twice as strong as the IPA. Hang on, I'll start a new paragraph to make this stand out more . . .

IPA was not a strong beer.

I feel better now. That out of the way, we can discuss some other points of interest. Like attenuation. Some of the beers, IPA for example, have a very high degree of attenuation. 85 to 90%. That's not such a surprise in the case of IPA. That was one of its characteristics. And what differentiated it from standard Pale Ale. More surprising is the 90% attenuation of one of the strong Burton Ales.

One more IPA point. Between 1901 and 1921 its gravity dropped from 1062 to 1054. That's quite a small decline, when you consider that over the same period Whitbread Porter went from 1055 to 1028. Having looked at the gravities of beers from Worthington and Bass, it seems Burton brewers were much less affected by gravity cuts.

But that's enough of me. Time for you to wonder and some numbers:


Allsopp beers 1870 - 1948
Year
Beer
Style


Price
size
package
Acidity


FG


OG


Colour


ABV
atten-uation
1870
Old Burton Ale (brewed March 1869)
Strong Ale




pint
draught


0.32


1040.38


1121.63






10.64


66.80%
1870
Old Burton Ale
Strong Ale


6d
pint
draught


0.25


1030.11


1111.45






10.69


72.98%
1870
Burton Ale
Strong Ale


4d
pint
draught


0.56


1008.61


1086.4






10.30


90.03%
1870
Mild
Mild


2d
pint
draught


0.22


1014.78


1057.33






5.53


74.22%
1879
Burton Ale
Pale Ale








0.235


1013.99


1069.51




7.88


78.79%
1896
Burton Light Dinner Ale
Dinner Ale








0.198


1007.72


1053.92




5.81


85.02%
1896
Luncheon Stout
Stout










1011.51


1063.47




6.69


80.94%
1901
India Pale Ale, Red Hand
IPA








0.144


1008.62


1061.57




6.80


85.27%
1921
IPA
IPA


8.5d
halfpint
bottled




1004.4


1054.4






6.56


91.91%
1922
PA
Pale Ale


8d
pint
bottled




1009.5


1045.7






4.71


79.21%
1922
Extra Stout (Belgian sample)
Stout




pint
bottled




1014.7


1053.7






5.06


72.63%
1926
Stout
Stout


8d
pint
bottled






1048.4






1928
Stout
Stout


8d
pint
bottled






1049.3






1932
Lager
Lager




pint
bottled




1009.4


1041






4.10


77.07%
1934
Brown Ale
Brown Ale




half pint
bottled






1035.90






1935
Milk Stout
Stout


9d
halfpint
bottled


0.06


1013.8


1049.3






4.61


72.01%
1937
Milk Stout
Stout




pint
bottled


0.05


1015.1


1050.6






4.60


70.16%
1937
Milk Stout
Stout


6d
halfpint
bottled


0.05


1014.5


1050.3






4.64


71.17%
1937
Lager
Lager




pint
bottled


0.05


1011.8


1045.2






4.33


73.89%
1948
Burton Pale Ale (bottled in Brussels)
Pale Ale






bottled


0.08


1008.9


1052.8






5.73


83.14%
1948
John Bull Ale
Pale Ale


13d
half pint
bottled


0.05


1008.2


1038.2


40 + 9


3.90


78.53%
1948
Burton Pale Ale Export (bottled in Brussels)
Pale Ale






bottled


0.07


1007.1


1052.6


18


5.95


86.50%
Sources:
British Medical Journal January 15th 1870
Whitbread Gravity Book
Truman Gravity Book


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One last point. The Burton Pale Ale brewed for the Belgian market. See how that remained a reasonable strength of over 1050 even in the late 1940's. A time when British beer strengths were at a low, second only to 1919. The average gravity of UK-brewed beer was 1032.59 in 1948 and 1030.55 in 1919. Note that beer strengths hit bottom after the end of both wars.https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5445569787371915337-7725682546987988888?l=barclayperkins.blogspot.com


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