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Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Draught Scottish 80/- Pale Ale 1947 - 1960
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I'm concluding my series on Scottish draught Pale Ale with the strongest, 80/-, or Export. The Scottish equivalent of Best Bitter.
As with 60/- and 70/-, the gravity range is quite narrow, a degree or two either side of 1044º. It's very convenient if, like me, you trying to categorise beers. English beers are all over the place and I have to resort to artificial categorisations.
I'm pleased to see one example that has clearly been coloured darker: the Younger's keg Bitter. That was probably only 25, as brewed. To give you an idea of how dark 55 is, Bitter was 20-25, Dark Mild around 80, on that scale.
The Younger's beer came under different names. In Scotland, it was 80/- or Export, in England it was usually sold as IPA. Which is a bit odd as the IPA they brewed in the 19th century was called XXP, which by 1945 was the name of their 60/-, at least in the brewery.
Does anyone still brew a classic 80/-? I guess Belhaven must. And Caledonian.
Draught Scottish 80/- Pale Ale 1947 - 1960 |
Year |
Brewer |
Beer |
Price per pint (d) |
OG |
FG |
ABV |
App. Atten-uation |
colour |
1951 |
Maclay |
Exp |
|
1043 |
1014 |
3.84 |
67.44% |
|
1964 |
McEwans |
Special |
20 |
1043.6 |
1007.6 |
4.50 |
82.57% |
20 |
1959 |
Wm. Younger |
Keg Bitter |
19 |
1043.7 |
1007.8 |
4.68 |
82.15% |
55 |
1960 |
Wm. Younger |
Younger's Bitter |
18 |
1043.9 |
1010.8 |
4.30 |
75.40% |
|
1947 |
Gordon & Blair |
Pale Ale |
20 |
1045.5 |
1004.5 |
5.36 |
90.11% |
|
1958 |
Bernard |
Special No. 1 |
|
1046 |
1013 |
4.28 |
71.74% |
|
|
Average |
|
19.3 |
1044.3 |
1009.6 |
4.49 |
78.23% |
|
Sources: |
Thomas Usher Gravity Book held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number TU/6/11. |
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002. |
T & J Bernard's brewing records held at the Scottish Brewing Archive. |
Maclay brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number M/6/1/1/28 |
Which Beer Report, 1960, pages 171 - 173. |
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