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Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Benskin’s beers 1944 - 1960
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Here, as promised, are Benskin’s beers for the immediate post-war years.
It looks like pretty much a full set of their beers, which is nice. There’s a reason for that. Watford being just outside London, it was on Whitbread’s patch. So a competitor, and quite a large one as they had 600-odd pubs. They were bound to have attracted Whitbread’s attention.
Let’s start with the strongest, Colne Spring Ale. Notice something strange about it? A really high degree of attenuation for a beer of its strength. That screams one thing at me: Brettanomyces. It’s hard to see how you could get the FG so low without Brettanomyces playing a part. As you can see, it wasn’t cheap at 5 shillings a pint. Then again, it was four times the strength of their weaker beers.
What else is there? A bog-standard looking Brown Ale. It looks very much like a bottled version of the X Ale. And look there – the IPA is one of the weakest beers. Looks very much in the Southern, low-gravity styles. Light Sparkling Ale seems to have had its name chopped down to just Light Ale in the mid-1950’s. Around 3% ABV is what you’d expect it to be.
The Stout is an interesting one. It looks like a Scottish one, with attenuation below 50%. You can see that the OG fell and the FG rose as the 1950’s progressed. Sweet and barely alcoholic. A bit like me, really.
Not sure what the beer for the Belgian market was. I can’t read the name. Maybe it’s a Scotch Ale. No, a bit weak for that. Pale Ale, maybe. Why have a Jubilee Beer in 1953? Surely it should be a Coronation Beer?
Moving on to the draught beers, they look, well, normal. I’ve seen weaker ones in the 1950’s.
That’s all for Benskin’s for now.
Benskin bottled beers 1944 - 1960 |
Year |
Beer |
Style |
Price |
Acidity |
OG |
FG |
ABV |
App. Atten-uation |
colour |
1953 |
Colne Spring Ale |
Barley Wine |
60 |
0.05 |
1090.7 |
1008.2 |
10.95 |
90.96% |
1 + 8 |
1955 |
Colne Spring Ale |
Barley Wine |
60 |
0.08 |
1091.8 |
1011.1 |
10.69 |
87.91% |
75 |
1960 |
Colne Spring Ale |
Barley Wine |
|
0.04 |
1092.2 |
1007.6 |
11.25 |
91.76% |
68 |
1951 |
Nut Brown Ale |
Brown Ale |
16 |
0.06 |
1032.9 |
1008.1 |
3.22 |
75.38% |
11 + 40 |
1951 |
India Pale Ale |
IPA |
20 |
0.07 |
1029.3 |
1006.3 |
2.98 |
78.50% |
20 B |
1944 |
Bitter Ale |
Pale Ale |
|
0.06 |
1027.6 |
1008.1 |
2.52 |
70.65% |
22 B |
1956 |
Light Ale |
Pale Ale |
19 |
0.04 |
1031.4 |
1009.8 |
2.79 |
68.79% |
25 |
1946 |
Light Sparkling Ale |
Pale Ale |
13 |
0.04 |
1028.9 |
1004.9 |
3.12 |
83.04% |
20.5 B |
1947 |
Light Sparkling Ale |
Pale Ale |
12.5 |
0.08 |
1029.4 |
1008.7 |
2.68 |
70.41% |
18.5 |
1947 |
Light Sparkling Ale |
Pale Ale |
16 |
0.08 |
1029.6 |
1007 |
2.93 |
76.35% |
20.5 |
1951 |
Light Sparkling Ale |
Pale Ale |
16 |
0.08 |
1032.6 |
1008.1 |
3.18 |
75.15% |
18 B |
1951 |
Brown Stout |
Stout |
20 |
0.06 |
1039.2 |
1013.6 |
3.31 |
65.31% |
1 + 18 |
1953 |
Brown Stout |
Stout |
21 |
0.07 |
1036.6 |
1014.2 |
2.89 |
61.20% |
1 + 11.5 |
1953 |
Brown Stout |
Stout |
21 |
0.04 |
1037.6 |
1018.3 |
2.48 |
51.33% |
275 |
1955 |
Double Stout |
Stout |
24 |
0.04 |
1036.2 |
1018.6 |
2.26 |
48.62% |
250 |
1955 |
Double Stout |
Stout |
22 |
0.02 |
1036.1 |
1018.3 |
2.29 |
49.31% |
275 |
1950 |
???? Ale Bottled in Belgium |
Strong Ale |
|
0.09 |
1060.3 |
1011.3 |
6.40 |
81.26% |
18 B |
1953 |
Jubilee Beer |
Strong Ale |
30 |
0.06 |
1054 |
1017.7 |
4.70 |
67.22% |
14.5 + 40 |
Source: |
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002. |
Benskin draught beers 1952 - 1953 |
Year |
Beer |
Style |
Price |
OG |
colour |
1953 |
X |
Mild |
13 |
1031.5 |
84 |
1952 |
Pale Ale |
Pale Ale |
18 |
1039 |
23 |
1953 |
Pale Ale |
Pale Ale |
16 |
1037.2 |
18 |
Source: |
Truman Gravity Book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number B/THB/C/252 |
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