Monday 23 October 2017

Nürnberg area Export 1878 – 1891

As promised, Exports from around Nuremberg. How will they differ from those from around Munich?

As with the beers from Bavaria’s capital, there’s a considerable variation in gravity. The weakest aren’t much over 12º Plato, while the strongest are over 16º Plato, and would be classified as Bockbier today. The ABV is all over the place, too, varying from under 4% to over 7%.

I’m slightly intrigued that there are more examples from Erlangen than Nuremberg, despite it being a smaller town.

Nürnberg area Export 1878 - 1891
Year Brewer Town Beer OG Plato OG FG ABV App. Atten-uation Acidity
1878 A. Schelle Erlangen Export 13.82 1055.9 1017.5 4.98 68.69% 0.12
1878 Niklass Erlangen Export 12.87 1051.9 1019.0 4.25 63.39% 0.19
1878 Erich Erlangen Export 13.84 1056.0 1016.0 5.19 71.43%
1878 Henninger Erlangen Export 14.24 1057.7 1020.0 4.88 65.34%
1879 Niklass Erlangen Export 14.28 1057.9 1021.0 4.78 63.73%
1883 Henninger Erlangen Export 15.16 1061.7 1018.5 5.60 69.99% 0.366
1884 Unknown Erlangen Export 15.45 1062.9 1023.2 5.14 63.12% 0.07
1884 Henninger Erlangen mittelfarbiges Export 16.09 1065.7 1017.0 6.34 74.12% 0.142
1884 Henninger Erlangen helles Export 14.00 1056.7 1014.1 5.54 75.13% 0.127
1884 Carl Niklass Erlangen helles Export 13.44 1054.3 1020.5 4.36 62.25% 0.108
1885 Erich Erlangen Export 13.09 1052.8 1018.0 4.50 65.91% 0.198
1891 Henninger Erlangen Export 14.24 1057.7 1020.3 4.84 64.82%
1878 Robby Nürnberg Export 12.94 1052.2 1015.8 4.71 69.73% 0.21
1878 Unknown Nürnberg Bayerisches Export-Bier 16.90 1069.2 1014.0 7.21 79.77%
1879 Aktien-Brauerei Nürnberg Export 15.11 1061.5 1017.2 5.75 72.01% 0.23
1879 Unknown Nürnberg Export 14.73 1059.8 1018.4 5.38 69.23% 0.23
1884 Unknown Nürnberg Exportbier 15.73 1064.1 1022.9 5.33 64.27% 0.02
1885 Tucher'sches Nürnberg Export 12.38 1049.8 1019.2 3.95 61.45% 0.175
1886 Aktien-Brauerei Nürnberg Export 12.87 1051.9 1017.9 4.40 65.51% 0.108
Average 14.27 1057.9 1018.4 5.11 67.89% 0.164
Source:
König, J (1903), Bier in Chemie der menschlichen Nahrungs- und Genussmittel by Joseph König, 1903, pp 1101 - 1156, Julius Springer, Berlin.


Here are the Munich Export averages:

OG Plato OG FG ABV App. Atten-uation Acidity
14.07 1057 1020.3 4.75 64.44% 0.275


Not a huge difference, except that the Nuremberg beers are more highly attenuated and slightly higher in gravity.

2 comments:

Elektrolurch said...

I think Erlangen today has also still more breweries than Nürnberg, doesn't it?

Barm said...

From my reading Erlanger (and Würzburger) beers were powerful “brands” in the US market pre-WWI which may explain some of it.