And as an excuse to write about Lager.
These are the Lagers Barclay Perkins brewed in the first year their Lager brewery operated. I made that sound as dull as a party conference. I'm having a Clement Freud sort of day. That's what happens when you write German for 8 hours.
Here are Barclay Perkins Lagers.
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| Barclay Perkins Lager production 1921 - 1922 | |||||
| Date | Year | Beer | barrels | gravity | gyle no. |
| May 13th | 1921 | Lager Export | 64 | 1050 | 1 |
| May 26th | 1921 | Lager Export | 59 | 1049 | 2 |
| Jun 8th | 1921 | Lager Export | 62.25 | 1050 | 3 |
| Jun 17th | 1921 | Lager Export | 62.75 | 1049 | 4 |
| Jun 29th | 1921 | Lager Export | 135 | 1050 | 5 |
| Jull 6th | 1921 | Lager Dark | 64.75 | 1046 | 6 |
| Jul 13th | 1921 | Lager Export | 57.75 | 1050 | 7 |
| Jul 21st | 1921 | Lager Export | 127.25 | 1050 | 8 |
| Jul 27th | 1921 | Lager Dark | 122.25 | 1046 | 9 |
| Aug 5th | 1921 | Lager Export | 62.75 | 1050 | 10 |
| Aug 18th | 1921 | Lager Dark | 55 | 1045 | 11 |
| Aug 25th | 1921 | Lager Export | 61 | 1050 | 12 |
| Sep 8th | 1921 | Lager Export | 62.75 | 1050 | 13 |
| Sep 23rd | 1921 | Lager Export | 57.25 | 1050 | 14 |
| Oct 12th | 1921 | Lager Export | 62.25 | 1050 | 15 |
| Dec 13th | 1921 | Lager Export | 62.5 | 1050 | 16 |
| Dec 28th | 1921 | Lager Export | 61 | 1050 | 17 |
| Dec 30th | 1921 | Lager Export | 141.25 | 1050 | 18 |
| Jan 9th | 1922 | Lager Export | 127 | 1050 | 19 |
| Jan 16th | 1922 | Lager Dark | 61.5 | 1039 | 20 |
| Jan 17th | 1922 | Lager Export | 62.25 | 1044 | 21 |
| Jan 18th | 1922 | Lager Export | 60 | 1034 | 22 |
| Jan 23rd | 1922 | Lager Export | 60.5 | 1050 | 23 |
| Jan 26th | 1922 | Munich | 60.75 | 1057 | 24 |
| Feb 6th | 1922 | Lager Export | 62.5 | 1050 | 25 |
| Feb 13th | 1922 | Lager Export | 66.25 | 1050 | 26 |
| Feb 15th | 1922 | Lager Dark | 33.25 | 1047 | 27 |
| Feb 20th | 1922 | Lager Export | 68.75 | 1050 | 28 |
| Feb 21st | 1922 | Dark | 57 | 1049 | 29 |
| Feb 27th | 1922 | Export | 60 | 1050 | 30 |
| Mar 6th | 1922 | Dark | 123.75 | 1044 | 31 |
| Mar 13th | 1922 | Dark | 128 | 1044 | 32 |
| Mar 20th | 1922 | Export | 59.25 | 1050 | 33 |
| Mar 27th | 1922 | Munich | 63 | 1057 | 34 |
| Apr 3rd | 1922 | Special Dark | 60.25 | 1057 | 1 |
| Apr 10th | 1922 | Dark | 82 | 1044 | 2 |
| Apr 12th | 1922 | Export | 73.5 | 1050 | 3 |
| Apr 18th | 1922 | Dark | 60.25 | 1044 | 4 |
| Apr 24th | 1922 | Export | 66.25 | 1050 | 5 |
| Apr 28th | 1922 | Export | 62 | 1050 | 6 |
| Total | 2938.75 | ||||
| Source: | |||||
| Barclay Perkins brewing records held at the London Metropolitan Archives. | |||||
Bit stronger than nowadays.
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9 comments:
Look at Export Lager, rock solid at 1050 apart from gyle 22. I pity the poor sods who got that one. While everyone else was having a great time on Barclays Export they were drinking Harp.
Will we get to see what the recipe diffences were that gave us 3 lagers from BP?
Where the final gravity's comparable to today's?
An there was a taste for dark lager not just the classic pils interesting
I wounder where mild's getting dark at around the same time as some of these dark lagers?
StuartP, the recipes will appear at some point, I'm sure.
Oblivious, Export had an FG of 1012, Draught 1013 and Dark 1023.
Fascinating that they had both a dark lager and a Munich. How much lager knowledge British brewers once had, and lost almost all of it!
Barm, a Danish gentleman called Henius was their head Lager brewer.
"Oblivious, Export had an FG of 1012, Draught 1013 and Dark 1023."
Ah a good bit less attenuated that to days i would presume?
I wonder if that Henius was any relation to Max Henius, PhD, the Chicago brewing consultant of 100 years ago, of the Wahl-Henius Institute, a brewing school and laboratory, and co-author of the American Handy Book of the Brewing, Malting and Auxiliary trades.
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