Another Guinness bottling controversy. This time about the use of corks. Which Guinness wanted to phase out in favour of crown corks.
The brilliant thing about this video is that it shows hand bottling at the pub. The beer is in wooden hogsheads, which is filled in bottles and then corked.
It's wonderful to see just how the bottling process worked.
At the end of the piece the chap is asked, after successfully identifying the corked stout from the others, what he would do if Guinness went through with their plan to abolish the corks. He replies that he would “join Father Matthew”, i.e. stop drinking. Fr Theobald Mathew was a prominent 19th century temperance preacher.
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