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Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Pre-WW II London Stout
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Yet more on Stout in WW II. I'd been dreading writing this section of my new book, "Blitzkrieg!".Not because I haven't collected enough material. Quite the opposite. I've too much. Pruning it down is taking a lot of work. Plus there are all the nice tables I have to assemble.
Let’s compare the Stouts of four major London brewers. Where we have three 8d per pint beers and two 7d per pint ones.
There’s quite a bit of difference in the hopping rate across the different breweries. Ranging for 6 lbs per quarter (336 lbs) of malt at Courage to 7.5 lbs at Truman. Enough, I’m sure, to have made Truman’s beers noticeably more hoppy.
A relatively poor rate of attenuation is a feature of all the Stouts for which I have the FG. Though, as these beers were cask-conditioned, the FG when served would have been a little lower.
If you're wondering why there's no Fuller's Stout, it's because they discontinued it in 1931.
Pre-WW II London Stout |
Year |
Brewer |
Beer |
OG |
OG after primings |
FG |
ABV |
App. Atten-uation |
lbs hops/ qtr |
hops lb/brl |
1937 |
Courage |
Stout |
1047.6 |
1052 |
1015.8 |
4.21 |
66.86% |
5.92 |
1.15 |
1936 |
Barclay Perkins |
BS |
1051.1 |
|
1017.0 |
4.51 |
66.72% |
6.37 |
1.48 |
1937 |
Whitbread |
LS |
1044.6 |
|
1013.0 |
4.18 |
70.85% |
6.94 |
1.26 |
1931 |
Truman |
BS |
1055.7 |
1060.5 |
|
|
|
7.5 |
1.53 |
1931 |
Truman |
St |
1046.8 |
1050.4 |
|
|
|
7.5 |
1.29 |
Sources: |
Courage brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number ACC/2305/08/263. |
Barclay Perkins brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number ACC/2305/01/621. |
Whitbread brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/09/125. |
Truman gyle book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number B/THB/C/114. |
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