Boddington Bitter hops 1945 - 1970

We're finally at the end of our look at Boddington Bitter in the quarter century immediately following WW II.

In a way, it's dead dull. Nothing other than English hops, mostly without any variety or even region of growth specified. And, in the later part of the time slice, without the harvest year, either.

When they could be arsed to mention the year, it was mostly reasonably recent. By that, I mean  from the most recent season or the one before that. Pretty typical of the practice at most breweries at the time.

There's probably some significance in the fact that the only varieties mentioned by time are quite recent ones - Brewer's Gold and Northern Brewer. Likely because they didn't consider mentioning the obvious varieties such as Fuggles or Goldings.

The lack of foreign hops isn't a surprise. In the period covers, the UK was about self-sufficient in hops, which hadn't been the case in the preceding 100 years.

Boddington Bitter hops 1945 - 1970
Date	Year	hop 1	hop 2	hop 3	dry hop 1	dry hop 2
9th Apr	1945	English 1943	Kent 1944		Kent 1944
15th Apr	1946	English 1945	English 1945	3 lbs hopulon	English 1945
3rd Jan	1947	English 1945	English 1945	3 lbs hopulon	Brewer's Gold 1945
5th Apr	1948	English 1946	English 1947	3 lbs hopulon	Brewers Gold 1946
1st Apr	1949	English 1947	English 1947		English 1947
6th Apr	1950	English 1948	English 1949	English 1949	Brewer's Gold 1949	English 1949
24th Dec	1951	Brewer's Gold 1949	English 1950	Brewer's Gold 1949	English 1950
6th Jan	1966	English	English	English	Northern Brewer	English
9th Jan	1968	English	English	English
20th Apr	1970	English	English	English
Sources:
Boddington brewing records held at Manchester Central Library, document numbers M693/405/129, M693/405/130 and M693/405/133.