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Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Primings - real examples
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Now we've been through a little of the theory of primings, let's take a look at some real examples. Courtesy of our old friends Barclay Perkins.
And what better way to present the examples than a nice, neat table. Here you go:
Barclay Perkins primings in the 1920's
date
year
beer
style
quarts/barrel
type
OG
FG
gravity points
addition to gravity
new OG
new FG
20th May
1924
RNS Raggett
Stout
sweet
20th May
1924
RNS BS Scotch
Stout
sweet
23rd May
1924
PA Export
Pale Ale
26th May
1924
BS c
Stout
invert @ 1150
5th Jun
1924
IBS
Stout
invert @ 1140
23rd Aug
1924
KKK
Strong Ale
4th Sep
1924
KK bottling
Strong Ale
17th Dec
1924
IBS ex
Stout
25th Feb
1925
XLK bottling
Pale Ale
16th Feb
1925
BS ex
Stout
31st Aug
1925
BBS ex
Stout
22nd Sep
1925
OMS
Stout
11th May
1926
KK
Strong Ale
13th Dec
1926
X
Mild
13th Dec
1926
X Special Dark
Mild
13th Dec
1926
Ale 4d
Mild
14th Dec
1926
PA trade
Pale Ale
14th Dec
1926
XLK trade
Pale Ale
14th Dec
1926
XLK bottling
Pale Ale
21st Dec
1927
KK trade
Strong Ale
10th Mar
1928
BS
Stout
10th Mar
1928
TT
Porter
Source:
Barclay Perkins brewing records held at the London Metropolitan archives
As you can see, not all their beers were primed. Confirming the theory, the Mild Ales (X, X Special Dark and Ale 4d) were primed. The four Pale Ales weren't.
The picture with K Ales was more complicated. KKK and the bottled version of KK weren't primed. The Draught KK trade (which would have been sold as Burton) was. Fascinating stuff, Burton. It mixes some of the characterisctics af Pale Ale with some of Mild's.
Porter and Stout take that complexity a level further. BS and TT, draught Stout and draught Porter, are the two most heavily primed beers. I calcualte that the priming for TT would have raised it's gravity by more than six points, or almost 20%. The full-strength Russian Stout, IBS ex, wasn't primed, but the weaker version was. Of the many other Stouts, the weaker ones were primed, except for Oatmeal Stout (OMS). A bit confusing.
I'd thought that I didn't have that many logs with priming details. But digging around has unearthed a few more. Noakes in particular, used masses of sugar as "Headings". Doubtless you'll be reading about that in great detail very soon.
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