Thomas Usher's beers in the 1930's (part three)

As promised, here are those Usher grists from the 1930's. What can I say? Intriguing sugar combinations. At least in the beers other than Pale Ale

Let's start with the Pale Ales, as they're so dull. The grists for all of them are identical, as they were all parti-gyled together. The small difference in the table are just discrepancies in individual batches. To me it looks very like an 1890's Pale Ale grist: just pale malt, invert sugar and flaked maize. Very dull, really. I'm not sure what to say except "Look at the absence of crystal malt again". Crystal malt in Pale Ales is much more recent than generally believed.

Now we've only the sugar babes left. I've seen some sugary beers in my time, but nothing quite like these ones. The Mild, Brown Ale and Stout all contain 5 types of sugar. Barbados and penang are presumably types of cane sugar. CDM is some sort of dark proprietary sugar, as is Caramax. Not sure about DF. Some other type of proprietary sugar.

I'm not sure I've come across a Stout with no type of roasted malt before. You have to wonder how Stout-like it was, especially as it was parti-gyled with the Mild. There was also a Mild parti-gyled with the Brown Ale. I can't imagine both milds were identical in flavour.

Scottish breweries in the 1930's, if Usher and Maclay are typical, must have had very simple malt stores, containing just a couple of different malts.

Thomas Usher's grists in the 1930's
Date	Year	Beer	Style	OG	FG	ABV	pale malt	crystal malt	flaked maize	invert sugar	barbados/penang	CDM	Caramax	?? Sugar	cane sugar	DF sugar
20th Nov	1931	Brown Ale	Brown Ale	1055	1016.5	5.09	77.65%	3.53%		4.71%	4.71%	2.35%	2.35%	4.71%
13th Oct	1931	IPA	IPA	1032	1011	2.78	76.92%		12.82%	10.26%
2nd Oct	1931	MA	Mild	1040	1015.5	3.24	64.29%	7.14%			4.76%	4.76%	2.38%		14.29%	2.38%
6th Oct	1931	PA	Pale Ale	1034	1012	2.91	76.92%		12.82%	10.26%
6th Oct	1931	PA 60/-	Pale Ale	1040	1013	3.57	76.92%		12.82%	10.26%
5th Oct	1931	PA 70/-	Pale Ale	1047	1013.5	4.43	80.70%		12.28%	7.02%
12th Nov	1931	PA 80/-	Pale Ale	1055	1012.5	5.62	81.36%		11.86%	6.78%
2nd Oct	1931	Stout 80/-	Stout	1052	1023	3.84	64.29%	7.14%			4.76%	4.76%	2.38%		14.29%	2.38%
Source:
Thomas Usher brewing record document TU/6/6 held at the Scottish Brewing Archive