Sunday 23 April 2017

Milk Stout 1938 - 1939

You may be wondering about my current Milk Stout obsession. Why? Would seem a logical question.

It's because I'm on my travels. Not as I write this, but as you read it. I'll be in Michigan when this is published, a couple of days into my Macbeth tour. I've no idea when I'm away if I'll have either the time or the inclination to write blog posts. So I write them all before I leave. Enough to have me covered until a couple of days after I return. Having a theme saves me the trouble of thinking up post ideas.

Lots more lovely Milk Stouts. Though they're still a bit all over the shop, varying in OG from 1036º to 1066º. Which is pretty much identical to the last set. Except top dog this time is William Younger. I published a recipe for 1939 William Younger Btlg DBS and remarked it didn't look like the usual idea of a Milk Stout. I'm heartened to see that it clearly was marketed as a Milk Stout, because it's a perfect match for the two examples in the table.

You can see that the gravity of Mackeson has fallen a little, from 1060º in 1929 to 1056º in 1939. While at the same time the FG has risen from 1020º to 1025º, reducing the attenuation from 66% to 55%. The conclusion must be that it was becoming sweeter. The ABV also dropped from 5.2% to 4%. I don't think I would have appreciated that.

The most significant change is in the average rate of attenution, which has fallen from 64% to 61%. It looks to me as if Milk Stout in general was getting sweeter. Something I suspect will be confirmed when we look at Milk Stouts during and after WW II. There's another couple of posts mapped out.


Milk Stout 1938 - 1939
Year Brewer Beer Price per pint d OG FG ABV App. Atten-uation colour
1938 Barclay Perkins Milk Stout 6 1048.6 1019.2 3.79 60.49% 325
1938 Bernard Milk Stout 9 1057 1013.6 5.65 76.14% 320
1938 Birkenhead Brewery Milk Stout 1057.9 1020.9 4.78 63.90% 320
1938 Brickwoods Milk Stout 10 1052.6 1016.2 4.72 69.20% 330
1938 Fullers Milk Stout 8 1045.5 1020.4 3.23 55.16%
1938 Gilmour Milk Stout 9 1047.4 1014.5 4.26 69.41%
1938 Hydes Milk Stout 9 1052.4 1016.5 4.65 68.51% 225
1938 John Smith Milk Stout 1047.9 1016 4.13 66.60%
1938 Mackeson Milk Stout 1056.5 1025.5 3.99 54.87%
1938 Mackeson Milk Stout 1058.25 1026.75 4.05 54.08%
1938 Richdale, John Milk Stout 9 1045.1 1017.2 3.60 61.86% 320
1938 Stone, Wm. Milk Stout 1055.4 1027.6 3.57 50.18%
1938 Truman Milk Stout 1047.1 1021 3.36 55.41%
1938 Watney Milk Stout 9.5 1048.6 1020.2 3.66 58.44%
1938 Watney Milk Stout 10 1050.5 1025.3 3.23 49.90% 175
1939 Barclay Perkins Milk Stout 9 1049.2 1020.2 3.74 58.94% 320
1939 Calder Alloa Milk Stout 10 1052.5 1021 4.06 60.00%
1939 Kemp Town Milk Stout 9 1046.8 1015.7 4.02 66.45% 200
1939 Leicester Brewing & Malting Co. Milk Stout 11 1040.3 1011.5 3.73 71.46% 200
1939 Lovibond Milk Stout 1051.9 1019.4 4.20 62.62% 425
1939 Mackeson Milk Stout 12 1056 1025 3.99 55.36%
1939 Ridley Milk Stout 1049.2 1020.2 3.74 58.94% 330
1939 Tamplin Milk Stout 1036 1011.5 3.17 68.06% 225
1939 Taylor Walker Milk Stout 10 1061.1 1031 3.86 49.26% 800
1939 Truman Milk Stout 9.5 1047.7 1022 3.31 53.88% 250
1939 Truman Milk Stout 9.5 1045.7 1020.1 3.30 56.02% 275
1939 Warwick & Richardson Milk Stout 1052.4 1021.2 4.02 59.54% 300
1939 Watney Milk Stout 10 1050.3 1024.5 3.31 51.29% 175
1939 Wm. Younger Milk Stout (Monk Export Brand) 1065.8 1023.9 5.42 63.68% 500
1939 Wm. Younger Milk Stout 12 1065.5 1019 6.04 70.99%
Average 9.6 1051.4 1020.2 4.02 60.70% 316.6
Sources:
Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001.
Thomas Usher Gravity Book document TU/6/11 held at the Scottish Brewing Archive.

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