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Tuesday, 28 December 2021

Light Mild 1946 to 1964

A bit of a change of pace, today. Or perhaps a return to the past. To those heady days of the 2010s, when every day I'd post tables of beer analyses. Let's see if we can relive them.

This is some information on post-war Light Mild which I've assembled for another project. One which, doubtless, I'll bore the eyebrows off you with later.

Where does Light Mild become Dark Mild? I've plumped for 46 EBC (old scale). Totally arbitrary, and possibly a little too high.

Talking of high, the degree of attenuation is just that in most examples. With the odd exception like Whiitaker Best Mild. Some are crazily high at over 90%, resulting in some Milds over 4% ABV. Which is pretty damn strong for a post=war Mild, Light or Dark. On the other hand, a few can't even scrape up to 3% ABV.

Light Mild 1946 to 1964
Year Brewer Beer Price per pint OG FG ABV App. Atten-uation colour
1946 Barclay Perkins Ale 13.5 1031.1 1008.8 2.89 71.70% 19.5
1949 Brickwoods Mild Ale 13 1033.2 1004.8 3.7 85.54% 20.5
1949 City Brewery Mild Ale 13 1032.6 1006.8 3.35 79.14% 21
1949 Mitchell & Butler XX 18 1034.6 1003.9 4 88.73% 35
1949 Portsmouth United Mild Ale 13 1029.3 1003.1 3.41 89.42% 19
1949 St. Annes Brewery Mild Ale 13 1034.9 1003 4.16 91.40% 20
1951 Vaux Mild Ale 15 1035.6 1002.9 4.27 91.85% 24.5
1951 Fremlin XXL 12 1029.4       22
1951 Shepherd Neame X 12 1031.4       24
1952 Lees K   1031       34
1955 Thwaites Mild Ale 16 1032.2 1006.1 3.39 81.06% 40
1959 Ramsdens Best Mild 13 1035.5 1006.5 3.63 81.69% 35
1959 Websters Best Mild 13 1034.9 1004.4 3.81 87.39% 20
1959 Bentleys Mild 13 1032.9 1005.4 3.44 83.59% 30
1959 Ramsdens Mild 12 1029.2 1004.7 3.06 83.90% 45
1959 Whitaker Best Mild 13 1033.1 1010.2 2.86 69.18% 45
1961 Cornbrook Keg Mild 17 1035 1002.3 4.09 93.43% 20
1961 Ansell King Pin Mild 19 1037.6 1006.7 3.86 82.18% 45
1961 M & B Keg Mild 19 1038.5 1009.9 3.58 74.29% 45
1962 Ind Coope Mild Ale 14 1033.7 1009.5 3.13 71.81% 20
1962 McMullen Mild Ale 14 1034 1006.3 3.46 81.47% 20
1964 John Smith Mild Ale 15 1030.9 1008.5 2.8 72.49% 30
  Average   14.3 1033.2 1006.0 3.5 82.12% 28.8
Source:
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002.


4 comments:

  1. Chris Pickles28 December 2021 at 07:08

    It would be very interesting to see these figures continued into the 1970's and 80's because then I could relate them to beers I actually drank.

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  2. Rob Sterowski28 December 2021 at 07:53

    What on earth was so great about M&B XX that they could charge one and sixpence for it when other brewers were selling for 1/1 ?

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  3. Anonymous28 December 2021 at 08:05

    Do you know how they got the attenuation so high? 003 or 002 doesn't seem natural outside of things like cider, not beer.

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  4. Mike in NSW28 December 2021 at 16:42

    I was surprised to see Vaux (Sunderland)on the list. It seems to have been a bit out of step here - the terms Mild or Bitter were pretty much a southern thing and while their Lorimer's branch produced what would be recognised as a dark mild it was sold as Lorimer's Scotch and was one of the best selling beers, South of the Tyne.

    Similarly Scottish and Newcastle sold their McEwan's Scotch and their very weak IPA would have fitted nicely into the light mild category.

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