Burton Ale Grists after WW II

I haven’t a great number of examples for Burton Ale. Whitbread didn’t appear to brew one for many years. Unless it was so infrequently I missed it. The Fullers beers were parti-gyled with Mild, while the others were brewed single-gyle.

Considering that these were dark beers, there's not a great deal of coloured malt in the grists. Fullers, typically, only used base malt.

The No. 1 invert in Barclay Perkins KK (bottling) is a bit strange. In the brewing record a “3” has been crossed out and a “1” written in red. Obviously, it was a last-minute substitution.

CDM stands for caramelised dextro-maltose. It’s often found in dark beers. I’ve no idea what PEX was. Other than that Fullers used a lot of it.

Burton Ale grists 1946 - 1958: malts
Year	Brewer	Beer	OG	pale malt	SA malt	amber malt	choc. Malt	crystal malt
1946	Barclay Perkins	KK (bottling)	1047.4	73.47%				5.44%
1946	Barclay Perkins	KK (trade)	1042.5	36.99%	34.68%	4.62%		6.94%
1958	Whitbread	KKKK	1050.5	82.23%			0.90%
1960	Whitbread	KKKK	1051.8	82.85%			0.87%
1949	Fullers	BO	1041.5	80.43%
1958	Fullers	OBE	1049.4	81.06%
Sources:
Barclay Perkins brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number ACC/2305/01/627.
Whitbread brewing records held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document numbers LMA/4453/D/01/126 and LMA/4453/D/01/127.
Fullers brewing records held at the brewery.

Burton Ale grists 1946 - 1958: adjuncts and sugars
Year	Brewer	Beer	OG	flaked maize	flaked barley	no. 1 sugar	no. 2 sugar	no. 3 sugar
1946	Barclay Perkins	KK (bottling)	1047.4		5.44%	14.51%
1946	Barclay Perkins	KK (trade)	1042.5		4.62%			10.79%
1958	Whitbread	KKKK	1050.5					14.46%
1960	Whitbread	KKKK	1051.8					13.95%
1949	Fullers	BO	1041.5		15.40%		0.57%
1958	Fullers	OBE	1049.4	9.01%			4.80%

Burton Ale grists 1946 - 1958: sugars
Year	Brewer	Beer	OG	PEX	CDM	glucose	caramel	other sugar
1946	Barclay Perkins	KK (bottling)	1047.4				1.13%
1946	Barclay Perkins	KK (trade)	1042.5				1.35%
1958	Whitbread	KKKK	1050.5					2.41%
1960	Whitbread	KKKK	1051.8					2.33%
1949	Fullers	BO	1041.5	1.14%		0.57%	1.88%
1958	Fullers	OBE	1049.4	2.40%	2.73%

 

This is an excerpt from my book on UK brewing in the aftermath of WW II, Austerity!

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/austerity/23181344