Thursday 5 October 2023

Boddington adjuncts and sugars in 1971

Not much in the way of adjuncts. Roast barley in the Stout, a little flaked maize in the Pale Ales. Bugger all really.

Rather more sugars. Making up a more substantial 10%-15% of the fermentables. If only I knew what they all are.

“Fla” and “Br” are the problems. Absolutely no clue what they might be. At least I know the invert was invert. Just not which type. CDM is Caramelised Dextro Maltose, used to add body and colour. That doesn’t leave me with much else to say, does it?

The malt extract was Diastatic Malt Syrup. Presumably, to help along in the mash. I can’t see why else you would use it. 

Boddington adjuncts in 1971
Beer Style roast barley flaked maize total adjuncts
XX Mild     0.00%
BM Mild     0.00%
Light Ale Pale Ale   2.41% 2.41%
IP IPA   2.27% 2.27%
SA Strong Ale     0.00%
WSS Stout 6.98%   6.98%
Source:
Boddington brewing record held at Manchester Central Library, document number M693/405/134.

Boddington sugars in 1971
Beer Style malt extract caramel Fla Br invert CDM total sugar
XX Mild 4.53% 1.13% 3.40%   6.80%   15.86%
BM Mild 4.58% 0.14% 3.43%   6.87%   15.02%
Light Ale Pale Ale 5.36%   4.29% 4.29%     13.94%
IP IPA 5.04%   4.03% 4.03%     13.10%
SA Strong Ale 2.41% 0.45% 1.80% 2.41% 3.61%   10.68%
WSS Stout         6.77% 5.07% 11.84%
Source:
Boddington brewing record held at Manchester Central Library, document number M693/405/134.


3 comments:

Matt said...

I'm looking forward to trying the Runaway recreation of a seventies Boddingtons bitter recipe at the launch of the new CAMRA book about Manchester pubs in a couple of weeks.

I drank Boddies from the late eighties, and the similar Chester's bitter, but I don't think either were the best examples of that sub-style of very pale, dry Manchester bitter now represented by Marble's beer of that name.

Anonymous said...

Could "Br" be something as simple as Brown (sugar)?

Anonymous said...

There are clues to the sugar mysteries elsewhere on this blog...

Fla = Flavex; a non-diastatic malt extract "with a full malt flavour"
Br = clearly a substitute for invert sugar so (as you suggest elsewhere) it probably stands for Barbados (syrup), i.e. raw cane syrup