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Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Southeastern Mild Ale 1950 – 1953
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I’m finding our stroll through the country lanes of Mild Ale fascinating. Why didn’t I ever do this before?
One reason is the colour numbers. Whitbread used a really annoying way of recording colour, using both a red and a brown filter. Up to 40 they’re fine, being the same as the old Lovibond/EBC numbers (double the current EBC numbers). After that, they’re in an irritating 12 + 40 format. Numbers you can’t do bugger all with, in terms of comparison of for averaging.
Luckily there are a couple of places where Whitbread recorded both the red brown and EBC values. And I’ve used it to create a full conversion table. Which means I can start to seriously look at differences in the colour of Mild across the UK. It’s been very revealing.
Using London Milds as my baseline, this lot have a slightly lower average gravity. Buy a higher rate of attenuation leaving the ABV a little higher. There’s very little variation in gravity, all the beers lying 1 or 2 points above or below 1030º. London Milds, with their higher FGs, probably tasted sweeter and fuller.
There are two out-and-out pale examples, from Shepherd Neame and Fremlins. But both also brewed a dark version. As the two beers have very similar gravities in both cases, I assume they are versions of the same basic beer. Those aside, everything else is reasonably dark, though a bit paler than in London.
Southeastern Mild Ale 1950 - 1953 |
Year |
Brewer |
Beer |
Price per pint d |
Acidity |
OG |
FG |
ABV |
App. Atten-uation |
colour |
1950 |
Cobb & Co. |
X |
|
|
1030.7 |
|
|
|
72 |
1950 |
Daniells |
X |
11 |
|
1031.2 |
|
|
|
56 |
1950 |
Gardner |
X |
12 |
|
1030.0 |
|
|
|
96 |
1950 |
Shepherd Neame |
X |
|
|
1030.1 |
|
|
|
63 |
1950 |
Simonds |
Ale |
12 |
|
1030.4 |
|
|
|
56 |
1950 |
Tomson & Wotton |
X |
|
|
1026.8 |
|
|
|
76 |
1950 |
Wells |
X |
12 |
|
1030.4 |
|
|
|
104 |
1951 |
Cobb & Co. |
X |
12 |
|
1028.4 |
|
|
|
88 |
1951 |
Daniells |
Mild Ale |
14 |
0.10 |
1029.9 |
1003.9 |
3.38 |
86.96% |
110 |
1951 |
Daniells |
X |
12 |
|
1032.1 |
|
|
|
72 |
1951 |
Daniels |
Ale |
13 |
|
1032.9 |
|
|
|
86 |
1951 |
Fremlin |
XXL |
12 |
|
1029.4 |
|
|
|
22 |
1951 |
Fremlin |
XX |
12 |
|
1030.6 |
|
|
|
60 |
1951 |
JJ Young |
Mild Ale |
14 |
0.06 |
1030.6 |
1004.8 |
3.35 |
84.31% |
65 |
1951 |
Morrell |
Mild Ale |
14 |
0.12 |
1029.7 |
1003.7 |
3.38 |
87.54% |
80 |
1951 |
Portsmouth United |
Mild Ale |
14 |
0.04 |
1029.3 |
1005.1 |
3.14 |
82.59% |
75 |
1951 |
Shepherd Neame |
X |
12 |
|
1031.4 |
|
|
|
24 |
1951 |
Simonds |
Mild Ale |
14 |
0.05 |
1032.0 |
1005.5 |
3.44 |
82.81% |
80 |
1951 |
Simonds |
Mild Dark Sweet |
14 |
0.06 |
1031.5 |
1005.7 |
3.35 |
81.90% |
80 |
1951 |
Tamplin |
Mild Ale |
14 |
0.05 |
1029.9 |
1005.2 |
3.21 |
82.61% |
70 |
1951 |
Tomson & Wotton |
X |
12 |
|
1029.2 |
|
|
|
80 |
1951 |
Wells |
Mild Ale |
14 |
0.04 |
1028.6 |
1005 |
3.07 |
82.52% |
75 |
1953 |
Benskins |
X |
13 |
|
1031.5 |
|
|
|
84 |
|
Average |
|
12.9 |
0.07 |
1030.3 |
1004.9 |
3.29 |
83.9% |
72.8 |
Sources: |
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002. |
Truman Gravity Book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number B/THB/C/252 |
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