tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post2311054725660497021..comments2024-03-28T13:20:29.156-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Courage Mild, PA and Burton 1939 - 1966Ron Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-1594809627900353252008-06-18T10:05:00.000-07:002008-06-18T10:05:00.000-07:00tom, I need to look into this. If it was just one,...tom, I need to look into this. If it was just one, I would think mistake. But there are a few.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-13032889704944891752008-06-18T03:11:00.000-07:002008-06-18T03:11:00.000-07:00Just noticed a little jump in your Charrington's f...Just noticed a little jump in your Charrington's figures too, in June 1940.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-28980091652342963662008-06-18T03:04:00.000-07:002008-06-18T03:04:00.000-07:00Intriguing. A short-lived wartime tax break seems ...Intriguing. A short-lived wartime tax break seems unlikely, and in any case it wouldn't explain why the pale ale wasn't affected. Maybe mild ale malt (or another darker malt used in mild but not pale ale) briefly became cheaper or more readily available for some reason.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-20948445831014673372008-06-17T12:37:00.000-07:002008-06-17T12:37:00.000-07:00tom, not sure what that means. Mann's Mild makes a...tom, not sure what that means. Mann's Mild makes a similar sudden jump. In the Truman Gravity Book there's a Taylor Walker Mild in 1940 that was 1042. There must be a reason.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-61978138961101272612008-06-17T08:14:00.000-07:002008-06-17T08:14:00.000-07:00Any reason you can think of for the short-lived bu...Any reason you can think of for the short-lived but significant (about 7 points) increase in mild gravity in 1940? Probably trivial, but it caught my eye.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-18323477146654224542008-06-16T12:42:00.000-07:002008-06-16T12:42:00.000-07:00The beer is identified as "Alton PA". For the othe...The beer is identified as "Alton PA". For the others it mostly just says PA. The Alton beer had an 0f 1037.7, pretty much the same as the others.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-46888125218763671232008-06-16T11:44:00.000-07:002008-06-16T11:44:00.000-07:00Ach! How different was it from the rest? (And assu...Ach! How different was it from the rest? (And assuming that Whitbread was taking the samples from Courage pubs, where it seems unlikely the company was flagging the beers as coming from different breweries, I wonder how they knew that one was Alton, unless they asked the landlord, of course ...)Zythophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07169961035352165436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-26136816899649368432008-06-16T10:53:00.000-07:002008-06-16T10:53:00.000-07:00I'm not sure. There was one sample that was identi...I'm not sure. There was one sample that was identified as Alton which I left out.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-32625249470436373272008-06-16T10:09:00.000-07:002008-06-16T10:09:00.000-07:00The bitter/PA, of course, was probably brewed at t...The bitter/PA, of course, was probably brewed at the Courage brewery in Alton, Hampshire (where Watney's also had a pale ale brewery, and where Coors still has one, making lager) rather than at the brewery by Tower Bridge. I still have bottles of Imperial Russian Stout brewed at the Tower Bridge brewery, where it was made in a parti-gyle with Velvet Stout ...Zythophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07169961035352165436noreply@blogger.com