1960 DDR beer ingredients

As promised, the ingredients used in those wacky DDR styles.

You'd imagined it more exciting, I'm guessing. It really does just list malt and hops. There's nothing specific at all. Just the total quantities of malt and hops.

Obviously, the stronger styles like Bock and Porter needed more malt than Hell. The hopping rate is more useful. Quite a lot more in the Porter than any of the other types.

I've calculated the hop rate per 100 kg of malt. It takes the strength of the beer out of the equation, allowing a true comparison of the hopping rates. The size of Porter's victory over Deutsches Porter is much reduced by this measurement.

1960 DDR beer ingredients per hl
Category	Type	kg malt per hl	Hops gm per hl		kg hops/100 kg malt
			min	max	min	max
Einfachbier	Jung- und Braunbier	4.5	40	60	0.89	1.33
	Dunkel	9	100	120	1.11	1.33
	Malzbier	9	40	70	0.44	0.78
	Hell	9	120	150	1.33	1.67
Schankbier	Weissbier	14.5	80	100	0.55	0.69
Vollbier	Hell	17	180	240	1.06	1.41
	Dunkel	17	150	210	0.88	1.24
	Doppel-Caramelmalzbier	10.5	40	80	0.38	0.76
	Malznahrbier	18	40	80	0.22	0.44
	Kostritzer Schwarzbier	19	230	250	1.21	1.32
	Deutsches Pilsner	20	250	350	1.25	1.75
Starkbier	Weisser Bock or Bockbier Hell	26	180	220	0.69	0.85
	Dunkler Bock or Bockbier Dunkel	26	150	200	0.58	0.77
	Deutsches Porter	32	500	650	1.56	2.03
Source:
1960 TGL7764 page 2.

But, the fun isn't quite over. Because there are a few other ingredients. One of which is a bit of a shock.

Rather surprisingly, sugar was only allowed in one type of beer: Doppel-Caramel. Though caramel for colour was to be found in many different styles. 

1960 DDR other beer ingredients
Type	sugar kg/ hl max	caramel max	artificial sweetener  450-times sweetness g/hl max	table salt g/hl max
Junng- und Braunbier	-	0.2	8	-
Einfachbier Dunkel	-	0.2	-	-
Malzbier	-	0.2	8	-
Doppel-Caramel-malzbier	6	0.2	-	-
Malznahrbier	-	0.2	-	-
Deutsches Porter	-	0.2	-	100
Source:
1960 TGL7764 page 3.

 Quire surprised to see salt in there. But only in Porter. And artificial sweetener. Though that was allowed for certain types of beer in West Germany, too. Still is, for that matter.