tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post2724508042636666279..comments2024-03-28T13:20:29.156-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Cornbrook Brewery and tank beer (part four)Ron Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-85015509742999784932016-03-01T09:06:40.848-08:002016-03-01T09:06:40.848-08:00Anthony Avis’s book says quite a bit about David C...Anthony Avis’s book says quite a bit about David Constable Maxwell, though not much about his background other than that he came from “an old recusant family from Leicestershire” (but family sources say that the Constable Maxwells originated in Inverness-shire, though living since the last war at Bosworth Hall in Leicestershire). He was apparently “a charming and persuasive man”, who somehow managed to have a new Bentley supplied to him each year by the Cornbrook Brewery until it was taken over. Avis sums him up as “an engaging personality, with an enchanting inability to see any point of view, or interest, other than his own”. <br />Constable Maxwell remained a fairly big cheese in Cornbrook/United Breweries until around the mid-1960s. But he was involved in other breweries as well: he had been a director of Ind Coope and Allsopp and some of its subsidiaries from at least the early post-war period until the early 1960s; this overlapped with his term of office at Cornbrook, which began around the late 1940s/early 1950s. From the early 1960s, David Constable Maxwell’s son, Robert Constable Maxwell, was also involved in various subsidiaries of Allied Breweries, as a director at various times of Tetley’s and Allied Breweries (UK), ending up as Chairman of the Aylesbury Brewery until the early/mid-1980s.<br />John Lesternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-33287334126061863042016-03-01T02:52:56.295-08:002016-03-01T02:52:56.295-08:00forbidden ales,
I've no idea, to be honest. M...forbidden ales,<br /><br />I've no idea, to be honest. Maybe someone else can chip in.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-11264364899744663512016-02-29T22:24:31.959-08:002016-02-29T22:24:31.959-08:00Are these the tanks that we call grundies now? We ...Are these the tanks that we call grundies now? We have a few of them in our brewery that came to canada from England. They look like some kind of Sputnik satellites. Fortunately we have a system in place to clean them regularly! Ha!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16802798388096080110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-8999417819462703862016-02-29T03:03:40.067-08:002016-02-29T03:03:40.067-08:00Anonymous,
David Constable Maxwell seems to have ...Anonymous,<br /><br />David Constable Maxwell seems to have been at Cornbrook for quite a while. I'm not sure what he did before that.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-47305056432282171022016-02-28T15:28:03.641-08:002016-02-28T15:28:03.641-08:00Do you know if David Constable Maxwell had much fa...Do you know if David Constable Maxwell had much familiarity with brewing or if he was an outside financial/business guy? The tank system has all the hallmarks of a consultant parachuting into a business he knows little about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-38979010612650440482016-02-28T03:01:21.615-08:002016-02-28T03:01:21.615-08:00I have a half-memory of watching a bulk tanker del...I have a half-memory of watching a bulk tanker delivery to a pub in Liverpool in the mid eighties. It may have been Guinness. Have I imagined this?Jeremy Drewnoreply@blogger.com