When English hops appear. There were still Oregon hops, but they were getting older as they all remained from the 1915 harvest. The reason is obvious: imports of American hops dried up. Once the war was over, large quantities of fresher American hops came into the mix. Though there were still some English hops used.
Let’s see how Fullers use of hops compared.
There’s a similar pattern to at Cairnes, where new foreign hops disappear in 1916. Though, in this case, rather than American hops they were Belgian and Germany. After that, it’s all English hops until after war’s end. When lots of French and American hops appear.
“MK”, obviously, stands for Mid-Kent. Not really sure what “B” means. I can’t think of a type of hops that starts with the letter “B”, other than Belgian.
Cairnes Single Stout hops 1914 - 1923 | |||||
Date | Year | hop 1 | hop 2 | hop 3 | hop 4 |
1st Jan | 1914 | Oregon 1912 | Belgium old | ||
1st Sep | 1914 | Oregon 1913 | Oregon no date | Oregon 1912 | |
7th Jan | 1915 | Oregon 1913 | Oregon 1913 | Oregon 1907 | |
2nd Oct | 1916 | Oregon 1915 | English 1915 | Poperinge 1915 | |
3rd May | 1917 | Oregon 1915 | English 1916 | ||
7th Jun | 1917 | Oregon 1915 | English 1916 | ||
1st Nov | 1917 | Oregon 1915 | English 1916 | ||
3rd Jan | 1918 | Oregon 1915 | English 1916 | ||
2nd May | 1918 | Oregon 1915 | English 1916 | ||
3rd Oct | 1918 | Oregon 1915 | English 1916 | English 1917 | |
3rd Feb | 1919 | Oregon 1915 | English 1917 | ||
2nd Oct | 1919 | English 1917 | English 1918 | Pacifics no date | |
1st Jan | 1920 | Oregon 1918 | English 1917 | English 1918 | old Pacifics |
15th Apr | 1920 | Oregon 1918 | English 1918 | ||
4th Oct | 1920 | Oregon 1918 | Oregon 1919 | English 1919 | |
3rd Oct | 1921 | Oregon 1918 | Oregon 1919 | English 1919 | English 1920 |
2nd Feb | 1922 | Sonoma 1920 | English 1917 | English 1920 | |
1st Jan | 1923 | English 1921 | English 1921 | English 1921 | |
Sources: | |||||
Cairnes brewing records held at the Guinness archives, document numbers GDB/SUB/0022 and GDB/BR17/1257. |
Fullers Porter hops 1914 - 1925 | ||||||
Date | Year | hop 1 | hop 2 | hop 3 | hop 4 | hop 5 |
18th Nov | 1914 | MK 1913 | Poperinge 1913 | Hallertau 1912 | Farnham 1913 | Tolhurst 1914 |
17th Feb | 1915 | Poperinge 1913 | B 1913 | MK 1913 | Tolhurst 1913 | |
2nd Jun | 1916 | Tolhurst 1915 | MK 1914 | Farnham 1914 | ||
4th Aug | 1916 | Tolhurst 1915 | MK 1914 | B 1914 | old hops | |
12th Apr | 1917 | MK 1915 | B 1915 | |||
9th Aug | 1917 | No. 2 B 1915 | Tolhurst 1916 | MK 1916 | ||
5th Jan | 1918 | MK 1916 | Tolhuirst 1916 | |||
19th Apr | 1918 | Farnham 1916 | MK 1916 | |||
14th Jan | 1919 | MK 1917 | Poperinge 1914 | |||
10th Feb | 1920 | Alsace 1917 | Alsace 1919 | Sonoma 1916 | Oregon | |
16th Jun | 1925 | Pacifics 1922 | English 1923 | English 1924 | ||
Source: | ||||||
Fullers brewing records held at the brewery. |
4 comments:
Maybe the B is another area of Kent, or another hop growing area now passed from memory?
Would I be right in saying that the sole reasons for hops was not to provide to the smell and taste but just for bittering?
Oscar
Oscar - the preservative qualities were the main reason for using hops, certainly for stout brewers, with the bitterness a reflection of that, ie the amount of alpha acids in the hops
Thanks Martyn.
Oscar
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