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While I'm on the topic of Mild quality in the 1920's, I may as well look at other London breweries, too.
I did this with some other London beers - mostly Porters and Stouts - a few years ago. I worked out a method of scoring the beers, based on the description of the flavour in the Whitbread Gravity Book. It goes like this, from -3 to +3:
+3 v good
+2 v fine, v fair, good
+1 fine, fair
0 moderate, only fair
-1 poor
-2 v poor, going off, thin
-3 nasty, sour, foul, gone off, mouldy
This brilliant. I'll be able to spin loads of posts out it. And then produce a league table for London Milds in the 1920's. Why didn't I think of this before?*
I think I may have to rethink my plans to hang around in Barclay Perkins pubs when I move back to the 1920's.
Barclay Perkins Mild Ale quality 1922 - 1925 |
Year |
Beer |
FG |
OG |
ABV |
App. Atten-uation |
Appearance |
Flavour |
Score |
1922 |
X |
1009 |
1039.5 |
4.03 |
78.48% |
grey |
sour |
-3 |
1922 |
X |
1009 |
1038.9 |
3.83 |
75.84% |
hazy |
only fair |
0 |
1922 |
X |
1010 |
1040 |
3.89 |
75.00% |
cloudy |
fair |
1 |
1922 |
X |
1010 |
1039 |
3.76 |
74.36% |
fairly bright |
gone off |
-3 |
1923 |
X |
1013 |
1044.7 |
4.08 |
70.47% |
not quite bright |
good |
2 |
1923 |
X |
1012 |
1041 |
3.76 |
70.73% |
hazy |
thin |
-2 |
1923 |
X |
1010 |
1041 |
3.97 |
74.63% |
not bright |
fair |
1 |
1923 |
X |
1011 |
1041.6 |
4.02 |
74.52% |
hazy |
v fair |
2 |
1923 |
X |
1011 |
1041.8 |
4.02 |
74.16% |
thick |
poor |
-1 |
1923 |
X |
1011 |
1041.1 |
3.96 |
74.21% |
v hazy |
poor mouldy |
-3 |
1924 |
X |
|
1043.8 |
|
|
just bright |
fair |
1 |
1924 |
X |
1012 |
1044.6 |
4.27 |
73.77% |
milky |
thin |
-2 |
1924 |
X |
1010 |
1043.8 |
4.37 |
76.71% |
cloudy |
only fair |
0 |
1925 |
X |
1011 |
1044 |
4.23 |
74.09% |
not bright |
Poor & thin |
-2 |
|
Average |
|
|
|
|
|
|
-0.64 |
Source: |
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001 |
That's pretty piss-poor, isn't it? Not a single one totally bright. Only 4 out of 14 with a positive score for the flavour and three that sound undrinkable. None of the beers is without a fault.
I wonder if they fined their beers. I suppose nowadays the landlord would just have to scribble "unfined" on the pump clip and suddenly those faults would all disappear.
* I did, but got distracted by something else.
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