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This was the basis of a national chain of pubs, (over 900 as of 2016) which were to prove influential on the British beer scene, because of their low prices, large premises, and championing of cask ale. [34] Also in 1979 David Bruce established the first "Firkin" brewpub. The Firkin chain consisted of pubs offering cask ale brewed on the ...
Timeline of British Breweries; Brewer 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 Adnams, Southwold: Adnams Whitbread, London Whitbread Interbrew: Flowers, Stratford: Flower & Sons " JW Green, Luton: JW Green (Brewmaster) " Cheltenham, Cheltenham: Cheltenham Cheltenham & Hereford Breweries: WCB" Tredegar, Tredegar: Tredegar
Hardcore IPA from BrewDog, the UK's largest craft brewer [1]. Beer in the United Kingdom has a long history, and has quite distinct traditions. Historically the main styles were top-fermented Bitters, Porters, Stouts and Milds, but after World War II lagers took over half the market by volume.
Philistine pottery beer jug. Beer is one of the oldest human-produced drinks. The written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia records the use of beer, and the drink has spread throughout the world; a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer-recipe, describing the production of beer from barley bread, and in China ...
Thracians were also known to consume beer made from rye, even since the 5th century BC, as the ancient Greek logographer Hellanicus of Lesbos says. Their name for beer was brutos, or brytos. The Romans called their brew cerevisia, from the Celtic word for it. Beer was apparently enjoyed by some Roman legionaries.
A barrel-aged beer is a beer that has been aged for a period of time in a wooden barrel. Typically, these barrels once housed bourbon, whisky, wine, or, to a lesser extent, brandy, sherry, or port. [1] [2] There is a particular tradition of barrel ageing beer in Belgium, notably of lambic beers. [3]
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Hook Norton Brewery is one of the last surviving Victorian breweries in the UK. (April 2006). The Marble Arch Inn, home of the Marble Brewery in Manchester Kelham Island Brewery in Sheffield Firkins outside the Castle Rock microbrewery in Nottingham A 19th-century poster for Phipps India Pale Ale (IPA) showing the Northampton Brewery on Bridge Street, now the site of Carlsberg UK Skinner's ...