Draught Scottish 70/- Pale Ale 1947 - 1965

70/-, or Heavy, was the Scottish equivalent of English Ordinary Bitter. Though, as with 60/-, the gravity range was much more limited than in England.

An English Ordinary Bitter could be anywherre from 1029º to 1038º. While Scottish 70/- always hovered around 1037º

I was slightly gobsmacked to realise that I drank thre of the beers in the table below: Maclay, Lorimer and William Younger. The last was reasonably common all over the UK. Maclay was only really available in Scotland. While Lorimer, owned by Vaux, was quite common in Cumbria and the Northeast, where Vaux owned pubs.  In fact BEst Scotch was often the only cask beer in Vaux pubs.

I can't say that any of the three stood out as being particularly different from English Bitter. Though, now I've looked at brewing records, I know that they were more lightly hopped than most English beers.

Though the examples below are in the normal colour range for Bitter, I know that most Scottish brewers coloured up their Pale Ales, depending on where they were to be sold. As brewed, they were fairly pale, but a good dose of caramel at racking time could see to that.

80/- next.

Draught Scottish 70/- Pale Ale 1947 - 1965
Year	Brewer	Beer	Price per pint (d)	OG	FG	ABV	App. Atten-uation	colour
1958	Bernard	No. 2		1036	1011	3.24	69.44%
1951	Maclay	SPA		1038	1015	3.04	60.53%
1964	McEwans	Best Scotch	17	1038.1	1007.1	3.87	81.36%	30
1953	Steel Coulson	PXA P. 70/-	19	1034
1960	Tennant	Best Bitter	16	1038.3	1006.05	4.20	84.20%
1947	Usher	PA 70/-		1037.5	1008.5	3.77	77.33%
1964	Vaux	Best Scotch	17	1036.3	1006.6	3.71	81.82%	30
1965	Vaux Lorimer	Best Scotch	18	1036.4	1006.3	3.76	82.69%	26
1950	Wm. Younger	Pale Ale	16	1039.8				27
1951	Wm. Younger	Pale Ale	16	1036.9				27
1964	Wm. Younger	XXPS	17	1038.8	1009.2	3.70	76.29%	24
	Average		17.0	1037.3	1008.7	3.66	76.71%	27.3
Sources:
Thomas Usher Gravity Book held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number TU/6/11.
Truman Gravity Book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number B/THB/C/252
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002.
T & J Bernard's brewing records held at the Scottish Brewing Archive.
Maclay brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number M/6/1/1/28
document from the Steel Coulson archive held at the Scottish Brewing Archives
Which Beer Report, 1960, pages 171 - 173.