It means that I can match up brew house and trade names. In this case, that's not so difficult as they're mostly the same. Though I'm not so sure about the three different types of XXX, Burton, Old and Mild. I've only got photos of one XXX. Not sure which of the three it is. But they were probably all the same strength as they're the same price.
No surprise that the weakest Mild and weakest Pale Ale are the best value for money. Nor that the top-of-the-range Pale Ale is the worst value.
These are the draught beers. There were also two bottled beers: IPA and Crystal Ale. The former is bottled PA, while the latter I assume is a version of AK, which is called BAK in the brewing records. More proof of the total lack of logic in the use of the terms PA and IPA in the UK.
BAK, incidentally, was one of the beers in the parti-gyle of the very first brew of Hardy Ale.
| Eldridge Pope beers in the 1890s | |||||||||
| Advert name | price per barrel (shillings) | price per ยบ | brewhouse name | OG | FG | ABV | App. Atten-uation | lbs hops/ qtr | hops lb/brl |
| Pale Ale | 54 | 0.94 | PA | 1057.6 | 1014.4 | 5.72 | 75.00% | 10.50 | 2.56 |
| K Bitter Ale | 42 | 0.82 | KK | 1051.5 | 1014.1 | 4.95 | 72.58% | 6.81 | 1.50 |
| AK Bitter Ale | 36 | 0.74 | AK | 1048.5 | 1011.9 | 4.84 | 75.43% | 7.03 | 1.44 |
| XXXX Strong Old Ale | 63 | 0.84 | XXXX | 1074.8 | 1023.8 | 6.74 | 68.15% | 8.95 | 2.82 |
| M XXX Burton Ale | 54 | 0.83 | XXX | 1065.1 | 1018.6 | 6.16 | 71.49% | 6.25 | 1.75 |
| XXX Old or Mild Ale | 54 | 0.83 | XXX | 1065.1 | 1018.6 | 6.16 | 71.49% | 6.25 | 1.75 |
| XX Mild Ale | 36 | 0.73 | XX | 1049.0 | 1011.6 | 4.95 | 76.27% | 4.36 | 0.91 |
| Stout Double Stout | 54 | 0.88 | S | 1061.5 | 1026.9 | 4.58 | 56.31% | 9.43 | 2.50 |
| Sources: | |||||||||
| Eldridge Pope brewing records | |||||||||
| Hampshire Chronicle - Saturday 25 January 1890, page 2. | |||||||||
I love this. I grew up in Winchester and Eldridge Pope was never an active brewery but part of the folklore - painted on the side of old pubs.
ReplyDeleteWish we had a recipe list and I’d brew some of it.
L.e.hauser,
ReplyDeleteI've got a full set of their recipes from 1897, 1911 and the 1960s.
The XXX Old and the XXX Mild, I'd be middlingly confident in saying, are the same beer, the Old being … older, ie the Mild left to mature. The Burton, perhaps, is the same beer, but tweaked post fermentation in some way: Barnard mentions it as "nourishing" and "hop flavoured" and says it was popular in London – heavily dry-hopped Old? That's a wild guess, though, and should not be taken seriously.
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