Fremlin beer gravities in 1924

When I took Andrew with me to photograph brewing records, I told him to always look inside the front and back covers. Because there's often interesting information scribbled down there.

Annual totals, water treatment, malts used and general notes. I've certainly harvested lots of dead handy stuff from these pages. Fremlin's records have several pages of this stuff. One of which, in their 1924/1925 records, contains the information below.

What it contains is rather typical of the immediate post-WW I period. Where brewers often fiddled around with their beers post-fermentation. Usually watering them down to hit the new lower gravities. Examples of breweries who did this are William Younger and Truman's Burton brewery.

At Fremlin, several beers were created by watering down others: IOS, BB and H. While others either had water added after fermentation or were blended with a low-gravity beer called "Spcl" (I assume that stands for "special". Though I'm not so sure what's special about something so watery. 

Fremlin beer gravities in 1924
beer	declare	action	finish
OS "Sp"	1044.5		1047.3
OS "Ord:	1041.7		1044.5
IOS	1028.4	dilute OS to 1028.4	1032.0
EB "Sp"	1045.3		1045.9
EB "Ord"	1042.3		1043.1
H	1042.3	dilute to 1034.5	1036.1
BB	1038.1	dilute EB or H  to 1038.1	1039.5
DA "Sp"	1032.5	add 12% Spcl @ 1026.4	1032.0
DA "Ord"	1031.1	add 12% Spcl @ 1026.4	1030.6
X	1028.1	dilute DA to 1028.1, add 12% Spcl @ 1026.4	1027.8
3 Star	1043.6	add 12% Spcl @ 1026.4	1041.7
Stock	1043.6		1044.5
EA	1049.2		1050.0
Source:
Fremlin brewing record held at the Kent Archives, document number U3555/2/F/Bx2/1/45.
OS = Oatmeal Stout