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The biggest surprise is that I’m still rambling across the moorland of 1950’s Stout. Surely I must eventually come across a pub?
As we gradually move our way down the attenuation scale, you’ll see the FGs rise and ABVs fall. Which is only logical. Though we’ve still got a way to go down that particular road.
There’s a considerable variation in price, not always that directly related to strength. The cheapest, Greenall’s Oatmeal Stout was just 21d – 8.75p in modern money – while the dearest, Mackeson cost 32d (13.33p). That’s almost 50% more, despite there being little difference in ABV. AAs national, heavily-advertised brand, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Mackeson demanded a premium price. The same seems to be true to a lesser extent of Charrington’s Punch Stout.
Just 5 of the 48 examples have the word “sweet” or “glucose” in their name. Almost as many, 4, are Oatmeal Stouts. More surprisingly, there are two Oyster Stouts. How modern.
There’s a reason why there are four analyses of Jubilee Stout. It was another widely available Stout which Whitbread presumably saw as a rival to their own Mackeson brand. A beer which was incredibly important for the company in the 1950’s.
There’s a very good geographical spread of breweries, from Scotland down to Southwest England, with pretty much every region inbetween represented. Including my hometown of Newark-on-Trent, in the form of Holes Castle Stout.
I can’t think of anything else to say. So here’s the table.
Bottled Stout in the 1950's - Standard Stouts 60-65% attenuation |
Year |
Brewer |
Beer |
Price per pint d |
Acidity |
OG |
FG |
ABV |
App. Atten-uation |
colour |
1953 |
Davenport |
Celebration Stout |
22 |
0.06 |
1041.9 |
1014.7 |
3.52 |
64.92% |
1 + 17 |
1953 |
Hunt Edmunds |
Country Stout |
26 |
0.06 |
1043.8 |
1015.4 |
3.67 |
64.84% |
1 + 15 |
1950 |
Castletown |
Manx Oyster Stout |
26 |
0.07 |
1043.7 |
1015.4 |
3.66 |
64.76% |
1 + 17 |
1953 |
Young & Son |
Victory Oyster Stout |
26 |
0.05 |
1046.5 |
1016.4 |
3.89 |
64.73% |
1R + 17B |
1959 |
Vaux |
Red Label Stout |
28 |
|
1043.9 |
1015.5 |
3.67 |
64.69% |
300 |
1957 |
Boddingtons |
Extra Stout (lactose absent) |
28 |
0.04 |
1043.9 |
1015.6 |
3.66 |
64.46% |
250 |
1951 |
Hope & Anchor |
Jubilee Stout |
28 |
0.04 |
1041.7 |
1014.9 |
3.46 |
64.27% |
|
1953 |
Samuel Smith |
Sams Stout |
22 |
0.11 |
1043.9 |
1015.7 |
3.64 |
64.24% |
1 + 11 |
1952 |
Hammerton |
Oatmeal Stout |
29 |
0.07 |
1047.2 |
1017 |
3.90 |
63.98% |
1 + 18.5 |
1959 |
Nimmo |
Nimmo's Stout |
28 |
|
1048.2 |
1017.4 |
3.98 |
63.90% |
300 |
1954 |
Bent's |
Red Label Stout |
26 |
0.04 |
1049.2 |
1017.8 |
4.06 |
63.82% |
300 |
1959 |
Plymouth Breweries |
Imperial Brown Stout |
26 |
|
1045.1 |
1016.4 |
3.71 |
63.64% |
350 |
1954 |
Charrington |
Punch Stout |
30 |
0.04 |
1047.5 |
1017.3 |
3.90 |
63.58% |
1 + 18 |
1955 |
Devenish |
Double Weymouth Sweet Stout |
28 |
0.06 |
1042.8 |
1015.6 |
3.51 |
63.55% |
400 |
1959 |
Devenish |
Devenish |
28 |
|
1042.2 |
1015.4 |
3.46 |
63.51% |
350 |
1953 |
James Hole & Co |
Castle Stout |
24 |
0.06 |
1041 |
1015 |
3.36 |
63.41% |
1R + 17B |
1951 |
Birkenhead Brewery |
BB Stout |
26 |
0.11 |
1046.6 |
1017.1 |
3.81 |
63.30% |
|
1952 |
Hope & Anchor |
Jubilee Stout |
28 |
0.06 |
1040.5 |
1014.9 |
3.31 |
63.21% |
1 + 11.5 |
1957 |
Charrington |
Punch Stout |
30 |
0.04 |
1047.2 |
1017.4 |
3.85 |
63.14% |
270 |
1959 |
Flowers |
Table Stout |
30 |
|
1043.3 |
1016 |
3.53 |
63.05% |
250 |
1952 |
Hope & Anchor |
Jubilee Stout |
26 |
0.05 |
1040.6 |
1015.1 |
3.29 |
62.81% |
1 + 10 |
1950 |
Hope & Anchor |
Jubilee Stout |
26 |
0.05 |
1040 |
1014.9 |
3.24 |
62.75% |
1 + 11 |
1952 |
Groves & Whitnall |
Red Rose Stout |
26 |
0.07 |
1047.9 |
1017.9 |
3.87 |
62.63% |
1 + 12 |
1951 |
Truman |
Best Stout |
22 |
0.06 |
1040.9 |
1015.3 |
3.31 |
62.59% |
1 + 16 |
1951 |
Hammerton |
Oatmeal Stout |
23 |
0.07 |
1046.8 |
1017.6 |
3.77 |
62.39% |
1 + 22 |
1950 |
M???? Manchester |
Stout |
24 |
0.06 |
1044.1 |
1016.6 |
3.55 |
62.36% |
1 + 13 |
1951 |
Greenalls |
Oatmeal Stout |
21 |
0.05 |
1042.7 |
1016.1 |
3.43 |
62.30% |
|
1950 |
H???? Manchester |
M. Stout (HMS) |
25 |
0.06 |
1047.2 |
1017.8 |
3.80 |
62.29% |
1 + 14 |
1954 |
Plymouth Breweries |
Brown Imperial Stout |
25 |
0.04 |
1048.6 |
1018.5 |
3.89 |
61.93% |
375 |
1952 |
Atkinsons |
Punch Stout |
24 |
0.05 |
1045.3 |
1017.3 |
3.61 |
61.81% |
1R + 11B |
1959 |
Joule |
Royal Stout |
28 |
|
1047.1 |
1018 |
3.76 |
61.78% |
250 |
1959 |
Wrekin |
MS Stout |
28 |
|
1042.3 |
1016.2 |
3.37 |
61.70% |
250 |
1953 |
Georges |
Glucose Stout |
28 |
0.06 |
1045.5 |
1017.6 |
3.60 |
61.32% |
1 + 11 |
1959 |
Whitbread |
Mackeson Stout |
32 |
|
1046 |
1017.8 |
3.64 |
61.30% |
400 |
1954 |
Calder |
Scotch Stout |
28 |
0.04 |
1040.9 |
1015.9 |
3.23 |
61.12% |
1 + 14 |
1959 |
Boddingtons |
Extra Stout |
24 |
|
1043.8 |
1017.1 |
3.45 |
60.96% |
325 |
1953 |
Charrington |
Punch Stout |
30 |
0.05 |
1047.8 |
1018.7 |
3.76 |
60.88% |
1 + 15 |
1956 |
Deuchar R |
Edinburgh Sweet Stout |
30 |
0.04 |
1042.9 |
1016.8 |
3.37 |
60.84% |
300 |
1954 |
Wilsons |
Wembly Extra Stout |
26 |
0.04 |
1044.3 |
1017.4 |
3.47 |
60.72% |
325 |
1953 |
John Joule |
Royal Stout |
28 |
0.05 |
1046.3 |
1018.2 |
3.63 |
60.69% |
1 + 16 |
1953 |
Camerons |
Sovereign Stout |
28 |
0.06 |
1047.3 |
1018.6 |
3.70 |
60.68% |
1 + 15 |
1959 |
Butler, Wm |
Black Satin Sweet Stout |
29 |
|
1042.2 |
1016.6 |
3.30 |
60.66% |
300 |
1959 |
Groves & Whitnall |
Red Roses Stout |
25 |
|
1047.5 |
1018.7 |
3.72 |
60.63% |
250 |
1954 |
Whitworth Son & Nephew |
Sweet Stout |
28 |
0.04 |
1044.7 |
1017.6 |
3.50 |
60.63% |
375 |
1954 |
Plymouth Breweries |
Oatmeal Stout |
25 |
0.04 |
1048.7 |
1019.2 |
3.81 |
60.57% |
400 |
1959 |
Taylor Walker |
Cannon Stout |
29 |
0.04 |
1045.8 |
1018.1 |
3.57 |
60.48% |
425 |
1952 |
Wilsons |
Extra Stout |
23 |
0.05 |
1043.7 |
1017.4 |
3.39 |
60.18% |
1R + 16B |
1954 |
Truman |
Best Stout |
24 |
0.04 |
1044 |
1017.6 |
3.41 |
60.00% |
1 + 10 |
|
Average |
|
26.54 |
0.05 |
1044.7 |
1016.8 |
3.60 |
62.46% |
|
Source: |
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002. |
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