Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Harvey's beers in 1889

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I've already extracted the details from the Harvey's brewing records which fell into my hands.

How this Harvey's brewing book ended up in the Beards archive is also becoming clearer. Mr. Miles Jenner, head brewers at Harvey's, tells me that Henry John Barrett served an apprenticeship at Harvery's and then later went on to be head brewer at Beards. This looks like it was his personal brewing book.

Moving onto the beeers themsleves, it's quite a small range. Two Milds, a Stock Ale a Pale Ale and a Stout. Even for a small-town brewery, that's pretty minimal. By this late, most breweries would have brewed multiple Stouts and probably a Light Pale Ale (1045-1050º).

All the beers are around the same strength as London equivalents, which slightly surprised me. I'm accustomed to provincial beers being weaker. You can see from the two tables below that there's a very close sorrelatioon between the graities of Harvey and Barclay Perkins.

A couple of the Harvey's beers - SB and Stout - have slightly lower hopping rates. But PA and X have roughly similar rates to the Barclay Perkins beers of the same class.

Interestingly, the rate of attenuation is generally a bit higher in the Harvey's beers.

Harvey's beers in 1889
Beer	Style	OG	FG	ABV	App. Atten-uation	lbs hops/ qtr	hops lb/brl
X	Mild	1057.6	1013.9	5.79	75.96%	5.70	1.47
XXX	Mild	1075.3	1020.8	7.22	72.43%	6.66	2.39
SB	Stock Ale	1078.9	1018.8	7.95	76.14%	9.02	3.21
PA	Pale Ale	1066.5	1020.2	6.12	69.58%	12.90	3.96
Stout	Stout	1078.7	1026.3	6.93	66.55%	6.65	2.43
Source:
Harvey brewing record held at the East Sussex Record Office, document number BBR 2/1/3.

Barclay Perkins beers 1891 - 1892
Beer	Style	OG	FG	ABV	App. Atten-uation	lbs hops/ qtr	hops lb/brl
X	Mild	1057.0	1016.6	5.34	70.84%	5.95	1.47
KK	Stock Ale	1074.0	1021.1	7.00	71.55%	14.22	4.61
PA	Pale Ale	1063.0	1021.1	5.55	66.58%	12.46	3.03
BS	Stout	1077.0	1027.0	6.61	64.94%	8.56	2.98
Source:
Barclay Perkins brewing records held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document numbers ACC/2305/1/587 and ACC/2305/1/588.

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