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Greene King plaque on the side of a pub in Sudbury, Suffolk. The brewery was founded by Benjamin Greene in Bury St. Edmunds in 1799. [3] In Richard Wilson's biographical analysis of the Greene family, he credits various family members for being able to achieve distinction in the worlds of business and banking, literature (Graham Greene, for example) and broadcasting in the nineteenth and ...
The difficulty in reproducing elsewhere the taste of the beers has led to the premier beer being jocularly referred to as "Ruddles Counterfeit". In 1996, Rutland bitter was the third of British beers to have achieved Protected Geographical Indication status; [4] this followed an application by Grolsch Ruddles. Since Greene King closed the ...
This is a partial list of breweries in England. Beer in England pre-dates other alcoholic drinks produced in England , and has been brewed continuously since prehistoric times. [ 1 ] As a beer brewing country , England is known for its top fermented cask beer (also called real ale ) which finishes maturing in the cellar of the pub rather than ...
The Old Speckled Hen logo. Old Speckled Hen is a bitter beer originally made by the Morland Brewery, but now brewed by Greene King Brewery.Old Speckled Hen was first brewed in 1979 in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire in England, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the MG car factory there on 30 November 1979.
Beer has been brewed by Armenians since ancient times. One of the first confirmed written evidences of ancient beer production is Xenophon's reference to "wine made from barley" in one of the ancient Armenia villages, as described in his 5th century B.C. work Anabasis: "There were stores within of wheat and barley and vegetables, and wine made from barley in great big bowls; the grains of ...
Chef & Brewer logo Rose and Crown, a Chef & Brewer pub, Kew, London The Bear Inn, a Chef & Brewer pub, Berkswell. The Chef & Brewer collection is a collection of over 150 licensed countryside pub restaurants in the United Kingdom, owned by Greene King.
Beer culture by country (3 C, 1 P) A. Beer in Albania (5 P) Beer in Argentina (1 C, 3 P) Beer in Armenia (2 C, 1 P) Beer in Australia (5 C, 16 P) Beer in Austria (2 C ...
Greene King's Strong Suffolk Ale is an example of an 18th-century "country beer". It is blended from Old 5X, which is aged for two years in oak tuns. [7] [13] Large oak vats were once the norm for fermentation and storage of beer in England, a fact made notorious when one of these burst in London in 1814, killing eight people. [1]