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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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