Whitbread Stout grists 1812 - 1854

Excel has learnt me good and proper. There's a limit to how big I can make these charts. 

It's quite easy to split up Stout. Because there was quite a long gap where they didn't brew a domestic Single Stout, just an export version.

Here's a nice stacked bar chart. I'm so good to you.

What's different about this chart? That it includes every year. Not just every five years. Well, other than 1813 and 1814, for which I don't have a photo of a Stout record.

The ups and downs of brown malt are well represented. Including the period in the 1820s when Whitbread dropped it.  The reintroduced it and saw, in the 1840s and 1850s, stabilising at around 20% of the grist.

The gradual rise of of black malt is also clear. Increasing from less than 1% of the grist to just over 4%.

Whitbread Porter grists 1805 - 1940

Another crazily data-heavy post. Before you ask, I tried to make it into a stacked bar chart, but Excel told me my data was too complicated.

I still think the data in table form does make some trends very visible. Like the near-constancy of brown malt. The rise of black malt and its replacement by chocolate malt. Flirts with sugar in the late 19th century before its definitive adoption in 1902.

No adjuncts. Apart from maybe tiny quantities of oats, which may have been in flaked form. Though they could also have been malted. The records don't specify the form. Their presence is purely on account of Porter being parti-gyled with Stout. Some of which was sold as Oatmeal Stout. The tiny amount of oats was simply there for legal reasons.

The ups and downs of brown malt are also very evident. From a peak of 35% to a low of, well, nothing. Or 3%, if you look at it another way.

Mild malt takes a bow towards the end of Porter's life, making up part of the base malt. I assume for financial reasons.

Whitbread Porter grists 1805 - 1940
Year	pale malt	brown malt	black malt	amber malt	choc. Malt	mild malt	white malt	oats	total sugar
1805	78.95%	21.05%
1807	66.32%	16.84%		16.84%
1808	64.76%	35.24%
1809	76.12%	23.88%
1811	72.41%	27.59%
1812	64.76%	17.62%		17.62%
1813	52.62%	25.51%		21.87%
1814	77.94%	22.06%
1815	74.28%	25.72%
1816	54.56%	26.10%		19.34%
1817	87.89%	11.82%	0.30%
1818	69.57%	8.28%	0.41%				21.74%
1819	91.39%	7.82%	0.78%
1821	94.78%	4.01%	1.20%
1822	95.78%	3.07%	1.15%
1823	75.84%	4.07%	4.07%				16.02%
1824	95.39%	3.41%	1.19%
1825	98.80%		1.20%
1826	98.63%		1.37%
1827	98.78%		1.22%
1828	98.82%		1.18%
1829	98.63%		1.37%
1830	98.27%		1.73%
1831	98.44%		1.56%
1832	88.00%	10.59%	1.41%
1833	87.06%	11.32%	1.62%
1834	87.85%	10.09%	2.06%
1835	88.45%	9.63%	1.93%
1836	76.58%	20.54%	2.88%
1837	89.49%	7.93%	2.58%
1838	85.52%	12.07%	2.41%
1839	85.52%	12.07%	2.41%
1840	85.52%	12.07%	2.41%
1841	81.10%	16.26%	2.64%
1842	81.10%	16.26%	2.64%
1843	81.10%	16.26%	2.64%
1844	80.93%	16.23%	2.84%
1845	80.93%	16.23%	2.84%
1846	76.58%	20.54%	2.88%
1847	77.40%	19.66%	2.95%
1848	76.42%	20.50%	3.08%
1849	77.02%	19.56%	3.42%
1850	76.27%	20.46%	3.27%
1851	76.27%	20.46%	3.27%
1852	76.27%	20.46%	3.27%
1853	77.02%	19.56%	3.42%
1854	75.83%	20.49%	3.69%
1855	75.83%	20.49%	3.69%
1856	76.64%	19.46%	3.89%
1857	76.64%	19.46%	3.89%
1858	76.64%	19.46%	3.89%
1859	75.83%	20.49%	3.69%
1860	75.83%	20.49%	3.69%
1861	75.83%	20.49%	3.69%
1862	76.27%	19.37%	4.36%
1863	76.27%	19.37%	4.36%
1864	75.90%	19.28%	4.82%
1865	80.63%	14.18%	5.20%
1866	81.01%	14.24%	4.75%
1867	43.42%	11.03%	6.07%						39.49%
1868	74.20%	9.42%	4.71%						11.67%
1869	72.68%	11.08%	5.54%						10.71%
1870	79.15%		6.03%						14.82%
1871	84.21%	9.87%	5.92%
1872	94.25%		5.75%
1873	88.72%		5.28%						5.99%
1874	87.20%	7.38%	5.41%
1875	75.47%	14.37%	5.75%						4.41%
1876	79.35%	15.11%	5.54%
1877	79.75%	14.47%	5.79%
1878	80.67%	13.88%	5.45%
1879	83.30%	10.69%	6.01%
1880	84.70%	9.31%	5.99%
1881	85.67%	7.96%	6.37%
1882	83.82%	9.37%	6.81%
1883	80.81%	12.79%	6.40%
1884	77.14%	14.37%	8.49%
1885	76.06%	15.75%	8.19%
1886	84.98%	8.29%	6.73%
1887	84.98%	8.29%	6.73%
1888	86.96%	6.78%	6.26%
1889	84.00%	8.96%	7.04%
1890	86.94%	6.53%	6.53%
1890	83.22%	8.70%	8.08%
1891	78.57%	9.88%	6.97%						4.58%
1892	79.82%	7.02%	7.02%						6.14%
1893	84.00%	8.30%	7.70%
1894	82.34%	9.74%	7.92%
1895	85.44%	6.85%	7.71%
1896	86.31%	6.44%	7.25%
1898	86.30%	6.58%	7.12%
1899	86.56%	6.72%	6.72%
1900	85.67%	7.16%	7.16%
1901	85.67%	7.16%	7.16%
1902	80.34%	10.16%	6.77%						2.73%
1903	80.43%	9.65%	6.76%						3.17%
1904	78.29%	9.54%	7.16%						5.01%
1905	78.01%	9.66%	7.25%						5.07%
1906	76.75%	9.83%	7.62%						5.80%
1907	73.74%	10.29%	8.70%						7.27%
1908	74.27%	10.08%	8.53%						7.12%
1909	75.76%	10.19%	8.49%						5.57%
1910	73.66%	10.06%	7.94%						8.34%
1911	72.35%	10.42%	8.23%					0.36%	8.64%
1912	72.89%	10.19%	7.90%					0.33%	8.69%
1913	73.38%	10.39%	8.31%					0.27%	7.64%
1914	74.63%	10.48%	6.29%					0.34%	8.25%
1915	70.19%	10.19%	8.49%						11.14%
1916	73.31%	10.13%	7.94%						8.62%
1917	70.35%	10.54%	8.35%						10.76%
1918	71.97%	12.32%	9.24%						6.47%
1919	67.49%	11.37%	8.12%					0.71%	12.31%
1920	66.91%	11.33%	8.50%					0.37%	12.89%
1921	62.86%	10.70%	10.17%					0.35%	15.92%
1922	68.39%	11.53%	10.61%					0.61%	8.88%
1924	65.77%	11.44%	2.18%		12.15%			0.36%	8.10%
1925	64.96%	11.25%	3.37%		11.81%			0.74%	7.87%
1926	73.87%	7.09%			9.31%			0.62%	9.10%
1927	72.62%	6.29%			9.35%			0.55%	11.19%
1928	72.26%	6.79%			8.91%			0.49%	11.55%
1929	72.74%	6.83%			8.97%			0.50%	10.96%
1930	72.74%	6.83%			8.97%			0.50%	10.96%
1931	72.71%	6.52%			8.55%			0.61%	11.61%
1932	70.12%	6.75%			8.86%			0.74%	13.53%
1933	71.58%	6.88%			9.03%			0.69%	11.81%
1936	54.57%	6.11%			8.02%	18.46%		0.80%	12.04%
1937	54.28%	6.08%			7.98%	18.36%		0.80%	12.50%
1938	54.42%	6.10%			8.00%	17.61%		1.60%	12.27%
1938	54.57%	6.11%			8.02%	18.46%		0.80%	12.04%
1939	72.83%	6.10%			8.00%			0.80%	12.27%
1940	57.32%	6.07%			7.96%	19.90%		0.80%	7.96%
Sources:
Whitbread brewing records held at the Lonndon Metropolitan Archives, document numbers LMA/4453/D/09/001 to LMA.4453/D/09/126.