Volume of Youngs beers brewed in 1960/1961

The quantities brewed of the Youngs beers varied an awful lot. As the next table will demonstrate. A word of warning, this isn’t based on every brew in the year 1960/1961. Instead, it’s based on the photographs my son Andrew took. These cover a total of 112 brews. Which hopefully is a reasonably representative sample.

X Ale accounted for a third of Youngs output. With considerably more being brewed than of any other types. This is exactly when Mild went into steep decline as a style. 1960 being the last year when more than 50% of beer produced in the UK was Mild.

Given its very high strength for the day, it’s a surprise that Special Bitter is in second place. Just a shade ahead of PAB, the bottled Pale Ale. It’s an indication of how popular bottled beer was. I’m sure most of it would have been consumed in pubs mixed with Ordinary as Light and Bitter.

PA, Ordinary Bitter, trails a little behind those other two. Despite being in the most popular style of Bitter nationally. Combined, these three Bitters made up 62% of output.

Volume of Youngs beers brewed in 1960/1961
Beer	Style	barrels	brews	average brew size	% of total
X	Mild	6329	24	263.7	33.18%
XS	Mild	198	6	33.0	1.04%
PAB	Pale Ale	4037	14	288.4	21.17%
PA	Pale Ale	3459	26	133.0	18.14%
SPA	Pale Ale	4386	26	168.7	23.00%
QSPA	Pale Ale	194	2	97.0	1.02%
Ex PA	Pale Ale	63	1	63.0	0.33%
MS	Stout	253	8	31.6	1.33%
XXX	Strong Ale	62	2	31.0	0.33%
XXXX	Strong Ale	31	1	31.0	0.16%
CA	Barley Wine	60.5	2	30.3	0.32%
	total	19,072.5	112	170.3
Source:
Young's brewing record held at Battersea Library, document number YO/RE/1/29.