Binnie malts 1903 - 1905

What was Binnie brewing these beers from? Well, let’s take a look. But don’t expect a huge number of malts. That’s just not the way they brewed in Scotland. The vast majority of beer contained just a single malt: base pale malt.

The exceptions, obviously, were Black Beers. Which needed some roasted malt to get the right colour and flavour profile. Here there’s a combination of black and amber malt for the Porter and Stout. Though there’s also a tiny amount in Table Beer, presumably for colour correction.

Two types of pale malt are listed: Scotch and foreign. That being where the barley was grown. Where would “foreign” be, exactly? Could be lots of places. Most likely were California, Chile and the Middle East. But Hungary, Germany and Cyprus are also a possibility

Only the Pale Ales contained adjuncts. Don’t take as definitive the split between flaked maize and flaked rice. All four beers contained both maize and rice at different times. Seemingly quite randomly. 

Binnie malts 1903 - 1905
Beer	Style	pale malt	black malt	amber malt	flaked maize	flaked rice
TB	Table Beer	94.65%	0.85%
80/-	Ale	100.00%
100/-	Ale	88.24%
140/- Ale	Ale	87.50%
BB	Pale Ale	86.67%				13.33%
Ex B	Pale Ale	86.67%				13.33%
54/- IPA	IPA	80.77%			11.54%
60/- IPA	IPA	85.71%			8.57%
XXX Porter	Porter	78.43%	9.80%	11.76%
DBS	Stout	77.98%	7.58%	8.66%
Source:
Binnie brewing record held at the Scottish Brewing Archives, document number BH/6/1/1/1.