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Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Eldridge Pope beers in 1896 - 1897
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Many thanks to Peter Symonds for passing on photographs of Eldridge Pope brewing records, the source of today's post.
I'm assembling an impressive set of brewing record photos. They're staring to cover quite a lot of Britain. It's good to have material from outside London (and Scotland), if only for comparison purposes. And I never tire of finding new AK's. Especially one that managed to hang around as long as Eldridge Pope's.
Nothing particularly odd in there. Though there are three Pale Ales with quite a small spread of gravities: 1048.5, 1051.5 and 1057.6. If you look in the table of Whitbread beers that I've included for comparison purposes, you can se that Whitbread also had three Pale Ales, but with slightly higher gravities of 1050, 1055 and 1061. I'm not sure how significant that is. It would depend on the price charged for the different beers.
One difference that is significant is in the hopping rate of the two breweries' Pale Ales. Whitbread's contain about 50% more hops.
Eldridge Pope and Whitbread both have two Milds. The former's X Ale is 10 points weaker than Whitbread's, but the stronger Milds of the two breweries are almost exactly the same strength. The hopping rate is a little lower in the Eldridge Pope beers, but not by much.
Eldridge Pope's Strong Ale, XXXX, is roughly similar in strength to Whitbread's KK, but has a much lower hopping rate. I think I'm detecting a trend here.
When comes to the Stouts, things are the other way around. The Eldridge Pope versions are more heavily hopped. Even though their strongest Stout is hardly stronger than Whibreead's Porter.
Here are their beers from 1896 - 1897 in convenient table format:
Eldridge Pope beers in 1896-1897 |
Year |
Beer |
Style |
OG |
FG |
ABV |
App. Attenuation |
lbs hops/ qtr |
hops lb/brl |
boil time (hours) |
boil time (hours) |
boil time (hours) |
Pitch temp |
max. fermentation temp |
length of fermentation (days) |
1896 |
AK |
Pale Ale |
1048.5 |
1011.6 |
4.87 |
76.00% |
7.33 |
1.50 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
60º |
71.25º |
8 |
1896 |
AK |
Pale Ale |
1048.5 |
1011.9 |
4.84 |
75.43% |
7.03 |
1.44 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
2.75 |
59.5º |
69º |
8 |
1896 |
BAK |
Pale Ale |
1048.5 |
1011.9 |
4.84 |
75.43% |
7.03 |
1.44 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
2.75 |
59.5º |
69.75º |
8 |
1896 |
PA |
Pale Ale |
1057.6 |
1014.4 |
5.72 |
75.00% |
10.5 |
2.56 |
2.5 |
2.75 |
|
59.5º |
70.25º |
7 |
1896 |
XX |
Mild |
1049.0 |
1011.6 |
4.95 |
76.27% |
4.36 |
0.91 |
2.5 |
2.75 |
|
60º |
70.5º |
7 |
1896 |
S |
Stout |
1061.5 |
1026.9 |
4.58 |
56.31% |
9.43 |
2.50 |
2.5 |
|
|
59º |
70.5º |
8 |
1896 |
LTS |
Stout |
1051.2 |
1019.4 |
4.21 |
62.16% |
10.37 |
2.23 |
2.5 |
|
|
60º |
70º |
8 |
1897 |
XXX |
Mild |
1065.1 |
1018.6 |
6.16 |
71.49% |
6.25 |
1.75 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
2.75 |
60º |
74.25º |
9 |
1897 |
XX |
Mild |
1048.8 |
1013.9 |
4.62 |
71.59% |
6.25 |
1.31 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
2.75 |
60º |
69º |
8 |
1897 |
XXXX |
Strong Ale |
1074.8 |
1023.8 |
6.74 |
68.15% |
8.95 |
2.82 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
60º |
74º |
9 |
1897 |
KK |
Pale Ale |
1051.5 |
1014.1 |
4.95 |
72.58% |
6.81 |
1.50 |
2 |
2.5 |
|
60º |
69.5º |
4 |
1897 |
XX |
Mild |
1049.6 |
1012.5 |
4.91 |
74.86% |
6.23 |
1.33 |
2 |
2.5 |
|
60.25º |
70.5º |
4 |
Source: |
Eldridge Pope brewing records |
And here are Whitbread's from the same period:
Whitbread beers in 1896 |
Year |
Beer |
Style |
OG |
FG |
ABV |
App. Attenuation |
lbs hops/ qtr |
hops lb/brl |
boil time (hours) |
boil time (hours) |
Pitch temp |
1896 |
FA |
Pale Ale |
1050.4 |
1012.0 |
5.08 |
76.20% |
10.03 |
2.24 |
1.67 |
1.75 |
57.5º |
1896 |
2PA |
Pale Ale |
1055.4 |
1016.0 |
5.21 |
71.12% |
13.99 |
3.64 |
1.5 |
1.75 |
57º |
1896 |
PA |
Pale Ale |
1060.9 |
1016.0 |
5.95 |
73.74% |
15.06 |
4.28 |
1.5 |
1.75 |
57º |
1896 |
X |
Mild |
1058.2 |
1014.0 |
5.84 |
75.93% |
7.50 |
1.90 |
1.75 |
1.75 |
60º |
1896 |
XK |
Ale |
1064.8 |
1015.0 |
6.59 |
76.86% |
7.50 |
2.12 |
1.75 |
1.75 |
58º |
1896 |
KK |
Stock Ale |
1078.1 |
1030.0 |
6.37 |
61.59% |
13.28 |
4.51 |
1.75 |
1.75 |
57º |
1896 |
KKK |
Stock Ale |
1087.4 |
1034.0 |
7.07 |
61.12% |
12.88 |
5.12 |
1.75 |
2 |
57º |
1896 |
P |
Porter |
1059.6 |
1015.0 |
5.89 |
74.81% |
7.79 |
1.94 |
1.75 |
1.75 |
60º |
1896 |
C |
Porter |
1059.3 |
1016.0 |
5.73 |
73.01% |
6.81 |
1.85 |
1.5 |
1.75 |
60º |
1896 |
CS |
Stout |
1066.2 |
1020.0 |
6.11 |
69.79% |
6.81 |
2.06 |
1.5 |
1.75 |
60º |
1896 |
SS |
Stout |
1085.0 |
1030.0 |
7.28 |
64.71% |
9.53 |
3.98 |
1.75 |
2 |
57º |
1896 |
SSS |
Stout |
1094.5 |
1034.0 |
8.00 |
64.02% |
9.53 |
4.42 |
1.75 |
2 |
57º |
Sources: |
Whitbread brewing records held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document numbers LMA/4453/D/01/062 and LMA/4453/D/09/091 |
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