Draught Scottish 80/- Pale Ale 1947 - 1960

I'm concluding my series on Scottish draught Pale Ale with the strongest, 80/-, or Export. The Scottish equivalent of Best Bitter.

As with 60/- and 70/-, the gravity range is quite narrow,  a degree or two either side of 1044º. It's very convenient if, like me, you trying to categorise beers. English beers are all over the place and I have to resort to artificial categorisations.

I'm pleased to see one example that has clearly been coloured darker: the Younger's keg Bitter. That was probably only 25, as brewed. To give you an idea of how dark 55 is, Bitter was 20-25, Dark Mild around 80, on that scale.

The Younger's beer came under different names. In Scotland, it was 80/- or Export, in England it was usually sold as IPA. Which is a bit odd as the IPA they brewed in the 19th century was called XXP, which by 1945 was the name of their 60/-, at least in the brewery.

Does anyone still brew a classic 80/-? I guess Belhaven must. And Caledonian.

Draught Scottish 80/- Pale Ale 1947 - 1960
Year	Brewer	Beer	Price per pint (d)	OG	FG	ABV	App. Atten-uation	colour
1951	Maclay	Exp		1043	1014	3.84	67.44%
1964	McEwans	Special	20	1043.6	1007.6	4.50	82.57%	20
1959	Wm. Younger	Keg Bitter	19	1043.7	1007.8	4.68	82.15%	55
1960	Wm. Younger	Younger's Bitter	18	1043.9	1010.8	4.30	75.40%
1947	Gordon & Blair	Pale Ale	20	1045.5	1004.5	5.36	90.11%
1958	Bernard	Special No. 1		1046	1013	4.28	71.74%
	Average		19.3	1044.3	1009.6	4.49	78.23%
Sources:
Thomas Usher Gravity Book held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document number TU/6/11.
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
Which Beer Report, 1960, pages 171 - 173.