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Shut up about Barclay Perkins - When did Scottish Pale Ale stop being biiter?
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I have wondered for a while when Scottish Pale Ales took on their current malty form. Then I realised that I had the information. I just needed to put it together.
For my new Scottish book I've assembled over 250 recipes so far. Including a load from William Younger. Which means I've calculated IBUs for their Pale Ales covering about a century. Isn't that cool?
I assembled the table for the new book. Which is coming along very nicely, thank you. I aim to have a complete first draft completed in twwo or three weeks. That's if I can keep my current pace. I've managed to bang out 7,000 words so far this week. Another 12,000 or so and I should be done.
Getting back to the topic, the table below makes it very obvious when all the bitterness was sucked out of Scottish beer. And what a surprise - it turns out to be WW I. With a further, smaller drop in the 1930's. Though there was also a considerable reduction between the 1850's and the 1860's.
There's one more question answered. Just another 9,488,277 to go.
William Younger Pale Ale bitterness 1851 - 1949 |
Year |
Beer |
OG |
IBU |
1851 |
XP |
1058 |
180 |
1851 |
XXP |
1072 |
217 |
1858 |
Ex Pale Ale |
1063 |
142 |
1868 |
XP |
1051 |
73 |
1868 |
XXP |
1052 |
73 |
1879 |
XP |
1052 |
99 |
1879 |
2XP |
1046 |
76 |
1885 |
XP |
1054 |
100 |
1885 |
XP Scotch |
1055 |
87 |
1898 |
XP Scotch |
1053 |
80 |
1913 |
LAE |
1045 |
78 |
1914 |
SLE |
1055 |
83 |
1921 |
XXPS |
1046 |
36 |
1933 |
XXP |
1043 |
34 |
1933 |
Expt |
1054 |
53 |
1933 |
XXPS |
1049 |
33 |
1039 |
XXPS |
1046 |
13 |
1940 |
XP Btlg |
1033 |
18 |
1949 |
XXP Btlg |
1031 |
14 |
1949 |
XXPS |
1037 |
21 |
1949 |
XXP |
1031.5 |
19 |
Sources: |
William Younger brewing records held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document numbers WY/6/1/2/3, WY/6/1/2/28, WY/6/1/2/31, WY/6/1/2/45, WY/6/1/2/58, WY/6/1/2/63, WY/6/1/2/70, WY/6/1/2/76 and WY/6/1/2/88. |
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