Boddington Bitter hops 1920 - 1938

The final post in this series on interwar Boddington Bitter. What fun it's been.

There's one consistent feature in Boddington's interwar hopping - lots of different hops in every beer. Up to six coppwer hops and three dry hops. In terms of origin, most are either English or American. But also some German (Hannover) Belgian (Alost), Czechoslovakian (Saaz) and Yugoslavian (Styrian). Quite a mixture, though with a higher percentage of locally-grown hops thatn you might have seen before WW I.

As well as several different types of hops, each beer also had ones from several different harvests. The oldest in the table were five seasons old, while most are no more than two seasons old. This sost of mix and matching I'm sure was at least partly driven by a desire to avoid and sudden changes in flavour when one hop was substituted.

Boddington Bitter hops 1920 - 1938
Year	hop 1	hop 2	hop 3	hop 4	hop 5	hop 6	hop 7	hop 8	hop 9
1920	English 1919	Oregon 1916	Oregon 1917	English 1919 dry hops	Oregon 1917 dry hops	Alost 1919 dry hops
1921	Saaz 1918	English 1919	English 1920	Alost 1920	Pacific 1920	Pacific 1920 dry hops	English 1920 dry hops
1922	Pacifics 1920	Pacifics 1921	English 1920	English 1921	English 1921	English 1922	Pacifics 1921 dry hops	English 1921 dry hops	English 1922 dry hops
1923	Pacific 1921	English 1922	Hannover 1923	Pacific 1921 dry hops	English 1921 dry hops	Hannover 1923 dry hops
1924	Americans 1921	Pacifics 1922 CS	English 1922	English 1923	English 1924	Pacifics 1922 dry hops	English 1923 dry hops	English 1924 dry hops
1925	Pacifics 1923 CS	English 1923	English 1923	English 1923	English 1924	Pacifics 1923 dry hops	English 1924 dry hops
1926	Pacifics 1922	English 1924	English 1924	English 1925	English 1925	Pacifics 1923 dry hops	English 1925 dry hops
1927	Californian 1922	Californian 1926	English 1925	English 1925	English 1925	English 1926	Californian 1926 dry hops	English 1925 dry hops	English 1926 dry hops
1928	Pacifics 1927	English 1925	English 1926	English 1927	English 1927	Pacifics 1927 dry hops	English 1927 dry hops
1929	Californian 1927	English 1927	English 1927	English 1928	Californian 1927 dry hops	English 1928 CS dry hops
1930	Sonoma 1928	Oregon 1928	English 1927	English 1927	English 1928	English 1928 CS	Oregon 1927 dry hops	English 1928 CS dry hops
1932	Oregon 1930	English 1930	English 1930	English 1930	English 1930 CS	Oregon 1930 dry hops	English 1930 CS dry hops
1933	Oregon 1931	English 1931	English 1931	English 1931	English 1931 CS	English 1932	English 1932 dry hops
1934	Oregon 1930 CS	English 1929	English 1930	English 1932	English 1933	Styrian 1933 dry hops	English 1933 CS dry hops
1935	Oregon 1933 CS	Styrian 1933 CS	English 1933	English 1934	English 1934	Styrian 1934 CS dry hops	English 1934 CS dry hops
1936	Oregon 1935 CS	Styrian 1933 CS	English 1934 CS	English 1935	English 1935 CS	Styrian 1934 CS dry hops	English 1935 CS dry hops	English 1935 dry hops
1937	Oregon 1936	Styrian 1936	English 1935 CS	English 1935 CS	English 1936 CS	English 1936 CS	Styrian 1936 dry hops	English 1936 CS dry hops
1938	Oregon 1937 CS	Styrian 1937 CS	English 1936 CS	English 1936 CS	English 1937 CS	English 1937 CS	Styrian 1937 CS dry hops	English 1937 CS dry hops	English 1937 CS dry hops
Sources:
Boddington brewing records held at Manchester Central Library, document numbers M693/405/127 and M693/405/128.