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When it came to gristts, Drybrough was very typically Scottish. They used very little in the way of coloured malt, just a tiny amount of black or chocolate malt. The quantities are so small it could only have been for colour adjustment. Other than that, there’s only pale malt and a small quantity of enzymic malt.
Tell a lie, there was another type of malt Drybrough used: malted oats. Which is slightly odd. Not that they used oats. They didn’t have much option with that: brewers were instructed in early 1943 to replace flaked barley with oats. But in flaked, not malted, form. In fact, oats weren’t supposed to be malted at all. So where did Drybrough get theirs from?
The base malt percentage actually increased during the war. This wasn’t unusual as adjuncts like flaked maize became unavailable and sugar was diverted to food production.
In terms of adjuncts, the types of grains being used were totally out of the brewer’s control. At the start of the war brewers were told by the government to use flaked barley instead of flaked maize. In 1943 the government ordained that flaked oats should replace flaked barley. And, finally, in 1944 it was back to flaked barley. Messing around I’m sure brewers could have done without.
Drybrough continued to employ flaked barley after the end of the war, though after 1953 in conjunction with flaked maize. It was only around 1960 that they reverted to just flaked maize, as they had brewed before the war.
Drybrough 60/- grists 1938 - 1947 malts |
Date |
Year |
OG |
pale malt |
black malt |
choc. Malt |
enzymic malt |
14th Oct |
1938 |
1038 |
72.04% |
0.73% |
|
1.76% |
19th Oct |
1939 |
1038 |
79.40% |
0.32% |
|
1.76% |
3rd Jan |
1940 |
1036 |
86.31% |
0.56% |
|
2.81% |
3rd Feb |
1941 |
1037 |
85.52% |
|
0.23% |
2.92% |
11th Jul |
1941 |
1034 |
88.84% |
|
0.26% |
2.70% |
2nd Feb |
1942 |
1032 |
83.02% |
|
0.37% |
3.11% |
3rd Feb |
1943 |
1032 |
80.77% |
|
|
2.88% |
14th Oct |
1943 |
1032 |
72.84% |
|
|
2.88% |
17th Jan |
1944 |
1032 |
72.54% |
|
0.67% |
2.81% |
13th Jul |
1944 |
1032 |
75.55% |
|
0.59% |
2.98% |
8th Feb |
1945 |
1032 |
76.44% |
|
0.47% |
2.39% |
8th Oct |
1946 |
1029 |
76.53% |
|
0.33% |
2.78% |
23rd Oct |
1947 |
1029 |
75.98% |
|
0.63% |
1.58% |
Sources: |
Drybrough brewing records held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document numbers D/6/1/1/4 and D/6/1/1/5. |
Drybrough 60/- grists 1938 - 1947 adjuncts |
Date |
Year |
OG |
flaked maize |
flaked barley |
flaked oats |
malted oats |
14th Oct |
1938 |
1038 |
15.81% |
|
|
|
19th Oct |
1939 |
1038 |
8.82% |
|
|
|
3rd Jan |
1940 |
1036 |
|
|
|
|
3rd Feb |
1941 |
1037 |
|
|
|
|
11th Jul |
1941 |
1034 |
|
|
|
|
2nd Feb |
1942 |
1032 |
|
4.15% |
|
|
3rd Feb |
1943 |
1032 |
|
|
7.69% |
|
14th Oct |
1943 |
1032 |
|
|
7.67% |
7.67% |
17th Jan |
1944 |
1032 |
|
5.00% |
|
10.01% |
13th Jul |
1944 |
1032 |
|
11.93% |
|
|
8th Feb |
1945 |
1032 |
|
12.74% |
|
|
8th Oct |
1946 |
1029 |
|
12.34% |
|
|
23rd Oct |
1947 |
1029 |
|
12.66% |
|
|
Sources: |
Drybrough brewing records held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document numbers D/6/1/1/4 and D/6/1/1/5. |
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