What is a schilling?

[jakeshivers]

I'm curious to know the difference between a 60 schilling, 80 schilling, etc of beer. I can't find any of this info anywhere.

 

[RandomSF]

try a search on "80 schilling beer" in Google.

 

[jakeshivers]

Thanks!

http://www.scottishbrewing.com/history/shilling.php

 

[chumprock]

A World Series winning right hander?

 

[soundsandsuds]

If you're going to google it you need to drop the "c". It's shilling, not schilling, except in Austria.

 

[Pimpfoot]

back in the day they used to tax beer based on a hogshead (54 gallons). the better the beer the more the tax. since the currency of the day was shillings you get the 60, 70, 90 shilling designations. Read the links below for a bit better description.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Scotland (shilling catagory section)

Light
(60/-) was under 3.5% abv
Heavy
(70/-) was between 3.5% and 4.0% abv
Export
(80/-) was between 4.0% and 5.5% abv
Wee heavy
(90/-) was over 6.0% abv
(/- is read as "shilling" or "bob" as in "a pint of eighty-bob, please")

http://www.scottishbrewing.com/history/shilling.php

basically, the better the beer the higher the tax. so if you had a 60 shilling version of a beer and a 90 shilling version of the beer, the 90 shilling will be bigger, better, ect.

 

[IrregularPulse]

Now a days It's the Scot's way of listing Alcohol strength basically. Like the Belgians have Ale, Dubbel, Trippel and Quad. Scottish Ale is usually listed in schillings. But historically, yes, it was about taxes.

 

[stevo155]

A World Series winning right hander?

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[j1laskey]

Bloody sock pitcher that helped the Red Sox win their first WS since 1918 ....WOOHOO!!!!!

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