Drybrough 60/- grists 1938 - 1947

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.