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Old Speckled Hen is available in bottles, cans, casks, and kegs. The alcohol by volume of both the canned and bottled versions is 4.8%, [12] making it a relatively strong, premium ale, however, the cask version was reduced from 5.2% to 4.5% ABV in 2006 to make it more of a "sessionable beer", resulting in a 60% increase in availability.
In 1979, Morland created Old Speckled Hen, one of their most popular beers, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the MG car factory in Abingdon, England. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] After Greene King bought the Morland brewery in Abingdon, it closed it and transferred the Ruddles and Old Speckled Hen brands to its own brewery in Bury St Edmunds. [ 5 ]
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 ...
A speckled hen is a chicken of specked plumage. Speckled hen or Speckled Hen may refer to: Old Speckled Hen, an English ale; Problem of the speckled hen, a problem in the theory of empirical knowledge; Pet speckled hen, or Guineafowl, an African bird "The Speckled Hen ", an East Slavic nursery rhyme
[2]: 289 The breed standard for the Sussex was drawn up in 1902, with three colour varieties, the light, the red and the speckled. [7] Of these, the speckled was the oldest. [2]: 289 The development of the light variety was probably influenced by Oriental breeds such as the Brahma and Cochin, and also by the silver-grey Dorking.
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Abingdon was originally home to the Morland Brewery, whose most famous ale was Old Speckled Hen, named after an early MG car. Greene King Brewery bought Morland for £182 million in 1999, closed the brewery and moved production to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. The site of the brewery has been redeveloped into housing.
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