Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Lager brewed in Germany 1952 - 1963
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I'm continuing my series of random Lager analyses from the years following WWW II. Why, you may ask. The simple answer to that is: because I can. This is my blog and I can do what the hell I like.
That's the glory of a blog. There's no editor looking over your shoulder. You're 100% on your own. Which is the way I like it. I hate being told what to do.
Getting back to the topic of this post, these are beers which I'm pretty sure were on sale in the UK. The ones with a price listed, almost certainly so. Though all are some sort of Pale Laager, there's a fair amount of variation in strength.
The two examples at just over 1030º were definitely specifically brewed for the UK market. No-one in Germany drank Lager that weak. The ones at 1040-1042º couldn't have been for the German market, either. There was a gap in the tax gravity bands between 9º and 11º Plato (approximately 1036º-1044º. so those must be some sort of beer for export.
It's interesting to see so many examples of Holsten. A little later - in the 1970s and 1980s - Holsten was a big brand in the UK. I wonder if that was because they'd got into the UK market early?
| Lager brewed in Germany 1952 - 1963 |
| Year |
Brewer |
Beer |
Price |
OG |
FG |
ABV |
App. Atten-uation |
colour |
| 1957 |
Dortmunder Union |
Pilsener |
47 |
1042.8 |
1007.4 |
4.61 |
82.71% |
8 |
| 1963 |
Dortmunder Union |
Pilsner |
44 |
1042 |
1006.7 |
4.41 |
84.05% |
9 |
| 1952 |
Dressler |
Lager |
|
1051.8 |
1009.4 |
5.53 |
81.85% |
6.5 |
| 1963 |
Elbschloss |
Ratsherrn Lager |
48 |
1030.5 |
1006.3 |
3.03 |
79.34% |
13 |
| 1961 |
Hackerbräu |
Hackerbräu Light |
66 |
1051.7 |
1014.5 |
4.65 |
71.95% |
8 |
| 1957 |
Holsten |
Holsten Pilsner |
|
1044.7 |
1007.4 |
4.86 |
83.45% |
8 |
| 1957 |
Holsten |
Holsten Pilsner |
42 |
1044.7 |
1008.2 |
4.75 |
81.66% |
8 |
| 1961 |
Holsten |
Holsten Lager |
40 |
1044.1 |
1008.1 |
4.50 |
81.63% |
7 |
| 1961 |
Holsten |
Pilsner Lager |
40 |
1045.5 |
1000.8 |
5.59 |
98.24% |
7 |
| 1963 |
Holsten |
Pilsner |
44 |
1046.1 |
1006.7 |
4.92 |
85.47% |
6 |
| 1957 |
Löwenbräu |
Pale Bock |
51 |
1061.9 |
1014.3 |
6.20 |
76.90% |
6 |
| 1961 |
Patzenhofer |
Patz Lager |
42 |
1041 |
1007.5 |
4.36 |
81.71% |
7.5 |
| 1959 |
St. Paul |
B.B. Lager |
|
1030.7 |
1010.3 |
2.64 |
66.45% |
7 |
| 1950 |
Tucher |
Tucher Pils Lager |
|
1055.1 |
1014.4 |
5.29 |
73.87% |
15 |
| Source: |
| Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001. |
All of the beers were hideously expensive. To put things into perspective, you could get a pint of Truman's bottled Light Ale for 20d. That's a beer, at 1031.8º slightly stronger than Ratsherrn Lager, for less than half the price. I'm not sure I understand why anyone would voluntarily pay more than double the price for their beer.
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