William Younger DBS Btlg adjuncts 1939 - 1944

No surprise that there’s far more variation in the adjuncts employed. As this was an area where the government decided what brewers were allowed to use. Based on which ingredients were available.

Pre-war, it had been grits all the way for William Younger. The biggest shock is that they were still finding some as late as March 1942. Brewers using flaked barley needed to find alternatives already in 1940. Not sure why there should still have been supplies of grits a couple of years later unless Younger had stockpiled them, anticipating the outbreak of war.

This being a Stout, there was one other adjunct in peacetime: roast barley. Though it was used in combination with black malt pre-war. Something which was very unusual in the UK, Brewers normally used either one of the other, not both. The percentage of roast barley increased during the warm, presumably to compensate for the dropping of black malt and a reduction in the amount of caramel.

Mostly, Younger’s adjunct usage follows the standard path, but with a few deviations. With the first maize replacement being flaked rice, followed by unmalted barley. But while most brewers went for flaked, Younger preferred, at least initially, ground barley. The government was OK with this as it used even less energy to produce than flakes.

After the mandated weirdness of flaked rye and flaked oats, by late 1943 Younger had settles in the standard late-war and immediate post-war adjunct: flaked barley.

William Younger DBS Btlg adjuncts 1939 - 1944
Date	Year	OG	grits	flaked rice	roast barley	flaked barley	ground barley	flaked rye	flaked oat
14th Nov	1939	1066	37.11%		3.09%
11th Oct	1940	1061	12.50%	21.88%	6.25%
27th Aug	1941	1060	12.37%	18.56%	9.28%
4th Mar	1942	1056	13.19%		9.89%		13.19%
31st Mar	1942	1053			10.23%		13.64%
5th May	1942	1051	14.29%		10.71%		14.29%
27th Jan	1943	1053			10.11%			13.48%
2nd Nov	1943	1053			10.11%	10.11%			10.11%
9th Nov	1943	1053			10.11%	20.22%
18th May	1944	1051			10.11%	20.22%
Source:
William Younger brewing records held at the Scottish Brewing Archive, document numbers WY/6/1/2/76, WY/6/1/2/77, WY/6/1/2/78, WY/6/1/2/7 and WY/6/1/2/81.