tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post5438704420514740377..comments2024-03-29T03:17:49.172-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: British brewing in WW I and WW IIRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-11551515749092999392008-11-22T12:53:00.000-08:002008-11-22T12:53:00.000-08:00Ron, you tease ... to answer your question properl...Ron, you tease ... to answer your question properly, Rabbi, would require copying out the whole of <I>The Britsh Brewing Industry 1830-1980</I> by Gourvish and Wilson, pp 356-372, but to try to summarise, high taxes, restrictions on the supply of grain and sugar and government limitations on the strength of beer and the amount that could be brewed lasted until 1950. By this time, British brewers had become very good at brewing tasty low-gravity beers. and although higher-gravity beers were introduced at the beginning of the 1950s (Greene King Abbot and Tennant's Gold Label, for example), these were inevitably expensive and the beer-drinking public seemed happy to stick to low-gravioty but tasty brews.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-24744258795926873532008-11-22T12:28:00.000-08:002008-11-22T12:28:00.000-08:00rabbi, yes.rabbi, yes.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-14818767789304014852008-11-22T12:09:00.000-08:002008-11-22T12:09:00.000-08:00It's interesting to see that the OG's were higher ...It's interesting to see that the OG's were higher before WWI and then dropped and recovered more, but before WWII, they started out lower, dropped less significantly, but also didn't return to pre-WWI gravities. Do you think it was that people developed a taste for lower gravity beers, and didn't feel the need to increase the gravities? Or was it just from high taxation?jonbraziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02206111505750271052noreply@blogger.com