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.