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In London Burton Ale remained a standard draught beer. Though after the mid-1950’s it increasingly became a winter seasonal. There were also stronger versions that the standard KK. These were mostly sold in bottles, but sometimes appeared on draught.
Before WW I draught Burton Ale, or KK as it was often known, was a very powerful dark beer with an OG of 1070º-1075º. The war knocked the stuffing out of Burton and in the 1920s and 1930s it had a gravity of around 1055º. The next war lopped off another ten gravity points or so.
The lack of any analyses in the Whitbread Gravity Book is an indication that Burton was going out of fashion. By the 1960s, only a few London breweries still made a draught version. When Fullers replaced their Burton with ESB and Youngs changed the name of theirs to Winter Warmer the style was, in terms of its name, dead.
Draught Burton Ale 1948 - 1954 |
Year |
Brewer |
Beer |
Price |
OG |
FG |
ABV |
App. Atten-uation |
colour |
1951 |
Barclay Perkins |
Strong Ale |
27 |
1079 |
1011 |
8.96 |
86.08% |
120 |
1951 |
Barclay Perkins |
Burton |
21 |
1043 |
1010.5 |
4.22 |
75.58% |
100 |
1954 |
Barclay Perkins |
KK |
21 |
1043 |
1011.1 |
4.14 |
74.19% |
120 |
1953 |
Charrington |
Strong Ale |
19 |
1039.9 |
|
|
|
144 |
1954 |
Charrington |
KK |
19 |
1048.1 |
1010.7 |
4.86 |
77.75% |
130 |
1951 |
Charrington |
Burton |
20 |
1046.3 |
1012.1 |
4.44 |
73.87% |
180 |
1948 |
Courage |
Burton |
21 |
1044.5 |
1008.5 |
4.69 |
80.90% |
140 |
1951 |
Courage |
Strong Ale XXX |
20 |
1048.1 |
1015.5 |
4.22 |
67.78% |
|
1954 |
Courage |
XXX |
20 |
1046.2 |
1013.8 |
4.20 |
70.13% |
200 |
1951 |
Ind Coope |
Double Burton |
24 |
1054.3 |
1013.9 |
5.25 |
74.40% |
110 |
1953 |
Ind Coope |
Strong Ale |
19 |
1043.0 |
|
|
|
112 |
1951 |
Mann Crossman |
Burton |
19 |
1041.5 |
1007.6 |
4.41 |
81.69% |
145 |
1948 |
Meux |
Burton |
20 |
1041 |
1006.4 |
4.51 |
84.39% |
245 |
1951 |
Meux |
XXX |
20 |
1046.2 |
1013.1 |
4.29 |
71.65% |
|
1953 |
Meux |
Strong Ale |
20 |
1045.8 |
|
|
|
152 |
1951 |
Taylor Walker |
Burton |
21 |
1050 |
1014.3 |
4.63 |
71.40% |
120 |
1954 |
Taylor Walker |
KKK |
21 |
1049.1 |
1017 |
4.15 |
65.38% |
110 |
1951 |
Truman |
Strong Ale |
22 |
1047.7 |
1010.7 |
4.81 |
77.57% |
|
1953 |
Truman |
Strong Ale |
22 |
1045.6 |
|
|
|
|
1954 |
Truman |
SA |
22 |
1049.1 |
1009.3 |
5.19 |
81.06% |
110 |
1948 |
Watney |
KKKK |
21 |
1046.1 |
1010.5 |
4.63 |
77.22% |
115 |
1954 |
Watney |
KKKK |
24 |
1055.2 |
1013.5 |
5.42 |
75.54% |
140 |
1953 |
Wenlock |
Strong Ale |
20 |
1043.4 |
|
|
|
176 |
1949 |
Whitbread |
Strong Ale |
20 |
1046.7 |
|
|
|
104 |
1951 |
Whitbread |
KKKK |
23 |
1053.5 |
|
|
|
|
1953 |
Whitbread |
Strong Ale |
23 |
1052.1 |
|
|
|
104 |
1954 |
Whitbread |
KKKK |
23 |
1051.2 |
1011.9 |
5.11 |
76.76% |
100 |
|
Average |
|
21.8 |
1049.4 |
1011.9 |
5.11 |
75.96% |
128 |
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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