tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post3260331007108451102..comments2024-03-28T06:20:10.699-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: A Stronger Quality of Bitter AleRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-46508983916471408762013-01-22T06:54:57.131-08:002013-01-22T06:54:57.131-08:00If you have access to gravities tables, maybe its ...If you have access to gravities tables, maybe its a "drier" beer? Some things seems to point in that direction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-61303198202833691692013-01-22T05:07:36.431-08:002013-01-22T05:07:36.431-08:00Nice ad, classic in its simplicity. Not all the Vi...Nice ad, classic in its simplicity. Not all the Victorian style was elaborate and baroque so to speak.<br /><br />IMO, they use the term ale in the introduction just as it used in the term pale ale, i.e., to mean beer. The neat division observed between the X beers, on the one hand, and AKs, IPA and stouts, on the other, confirms so. So do the more or less contemporary comments I mentioned yesterday from Moritz, who indicated that intermediate beers, clearly AKs, received a longer conditioning than X ales but not as long as pale ale (IPA here, probably). I would think too, if you could look at Rogers's records, that AK was more highly hopped than the equivalent gravity X ales.<br /><br />There can no doubt though that the distinction between different gravity pale bitter beers and mild ales was starting to fade. This explains the looser terminology which started to be used but it is also true that the seed was planted in the euphonious but devilish term, pale ale.<br /><br />A theory: mild became dark to enable the distinction to remain between the two classes of malt liquor. Attenuation and hopping rates, due to their variation, with non-long-stored beers, were not enough to found a basic division, either for the brewers or certainly the tenants and customers. But a colour change (often illusory as to the real nature) was a clearer demarcation.<br /><br />Gary<br />Gary Gillmannoreply@blogger.com