Beer Guide to the 1970s (part sixty-five)

We're getting close to the end now. Both of this series anf of the Whitbread breweries.

Did Whitbread close more breweries than anyone else? Not sure. But I doubt anyone beat them in the 1970s and 1980s.Though one of today's set lasted until the 1990s. Well done Tennant.

Speaking of Tennant, they were the original owners of the pub on our caravan site. My Dad must have drunk their beer. Pretty sure he drank Bitter, so it would either have been Trophy or Queen's Ale. Tennant was also the inventor of Gold Label. A beer with which I have a weird obsession. I've been trying to get someone to brew a 1950s version for years.

I did try the revived Chesters Mil a few times. I thought it was decent enough, though nothing outstanding.


Tennant
Sheffield,
South Yorkshire.
Founded:    1820
Closed:            1993
Tied houses:    700

Bought 1961. No cask beer in the 1970s. Reintroduced cask in the early 1980s.

beer	style	format	OG	description
Queen's Ale	Pale Ale	keg	1044
Trophy	Pale Ale	keg	1037
Gold Label	Barley Wine	bottled	1101.3	blended and matured

Threlfall (Liverpool)
Liverpool,
Merseyside.
Founded:    1818
Closed:            1982
Tied houses:    

Bought in 1967. Reintroduced cask beer at the end of the 1970s. Though I never drank it.

beer	style	format	OG	description
Special Cask Bitter	Pale Ale	draught	1041	dry, full-bodied
Trophy	Pale Ale	keg

Threlfall (Salford)
Salford,
Greater Manchester.
Founded:    1861
Closed:            1988
Tied houses:    

Bought in 1967. Produced no cask in the 1970s. In the early 1980s they brewed a couple of Chesters branded cask beers.

beer	style	format	OG	description
Trophy	Pale Ale	keg	1033.6
Chesters Best Mild	Mild	keg		dark

 

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