Truman (Burton) hops in 1939

This finishes off my look at Truman's Burton beers at the start of WW II. I hope you've enjoyed it. Because I'll be going through the same exercise for their beers at the end of the war next.

Truman was unusual in using 100% English hops in all its beers. This was possibly influenced by the fact that the brewery had its own hop gardens. More standard was to employ a percentage of foreign hops. In most cases, that would have meant hops from the Pacific coast of the US. Or, in rare cases, Belgian, Czech or even German hops.

Not that, once again, the Stock Ales were different to all the others. Though it is worth bearing in mind that they were brewed in 1940, while all the others were brewed in 1939. It does mean, however, that the Stock Ales, which were brewed early in the year, had all hops from the most recent season. While the others had some from the last harvest, but also from the one before.

Unfortunately, the brewing records give no clue to either where the hops were grown in England nor their variety. Though it’s fair to assume that most would have been either Fuggles, Goldings or something similar.

Truman (Burton) hops in 1939
Beer	Style	OG	hop 1	hop 2
X	Mild	1030.2	English 1937	English 1938
X "Dark"	Mild	1028.5	English 1937	English 1938
X "Light"	Mild	1030.2	English 1937	English 1938
XX	Mild	1035.5	English 1937	English 1938
XX "Dark"	Mild	1033.8	English 1937	English 1938
XX "Light"	Mild	1035.5	English 1937	English 1938
No. 7	Mild	1041.3	English 1937	English 1938
Pale1	Pale Ale	1053.5	English 1937	English 1938
Pale1 B	Pale Ale	1053.5	English 1937	English 1938
Pale2	Pale Ale	1047.4	English 1937	English 1938
XXX	Strong Ale	1048.2	English 1937	English 1938
B3	Ale	1056	English 1937	English 1938
R4	Ale	1052.9	English 1937	English 1938
Stock 1	Stock Ale	1105.3	English 1939
Stock 2	Stock Ale	1088.6	English 1939
Source:
Truman brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number B/THB/C/339.