Saturday 30 October 2010

Meux beers in 1921

Inspired by this post of Zythophile about the Meux vat-bursting disaster, here are some beers from the Tottenham Court Road Brewery.

Not a very large table, I'm afraid. And a couple of the beers - those from November - almost certainly weren't brewed there. According to Zythophile the brewery on Tottenham Court Road closed sometime in the autumn of 1921. Brewing was moved to the Nine Elms brewery in Wandsworth, also owned by Meux.


Meux beers in 1921
Date
Year
Beer
Style
Price
size
package
FG
OG
ABV
atten-uation
09
1921
Original London Stout
Stout
8.5d
half pint
bottled
1014.3
1066.1
6.76
78.37%
09
1921
Brown London Stout
Stout
17d
quart
bottled
1010
1045.2
4.58
77.88%
09
1921
Oatmeal Stout
Stout
9d
pint
bottled
1010.6
1044.3
4.38
76.07%
09
1921
London Pale Ale
Pale Ale
8d
pint
bottled
1004.5
1037.1
4.25
87.87%
09
1921
Brown London Stout
Stout
17d
quart
bottled
1010.3
1042.5
4.18
75.76%
02
1921
X
Mild
7d
pint
draught
1006.4
1038.9
4.23
83.55%
02
1921
Stout
Stout
9d
pint
draught
1010.7
1047.5
4.79
77.47%
11
1921
Stout
Stout
9d
pint
draught
1012.8
1057.3
5.80
77.66%
11
1921
Stout
Stout
9d
pint
draught
1013.5
1056.4
5.58
76.06%
Source:
Whitbread Gravity Book


This is the advert from the Times of 16th July 1921 advertising the sale of the brewery's equipment:




And this the advert from the Times of 23rd February 1922 advertising the sale of the site:



And here's a map of what was up for sale:


Given the location, it must have been worth a bob or two.

2 comments:

Tim said...

A little searching shows that the Dominion Theatre was built on part of the site. I also found a short history of the theatre: http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/DominionTheatre.htm

Oblivious said...

Interesting that they offered a "Historical beer" Original London Stout compared to their standard London brown stout, there used have been a good demand out there for them to brew it