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

It's going to take a while to churn through all the Whitbread breweries. They bought so many of the damn things. Then closed them again.

I drank beer from two of the three featured today. Fremlin I drank mostly on the odd occasion I was in Kent. Where it was served in lots of pubs. And pretty decent stuff.

Kirkstall brewed no cask in the 1970s, so obviously I wouldn't have drunk that filth. Hang on, though. I did get some quarts of Whitbread beer from Fisher's corner shop on Brudenell Road. That must have been from Kirkstall. Sad that I can't remember anything about it. Other than that it came in internal screw quart bottles. Which weren't used much by the 1970s.


Fremlin (Faversham)
Faversham,
Kent.
Founded:         1700s
Closed:            1990
Tied houses:    

Bought in 1967. Originally Rigden, bought by Fremlin in 1948. Their cask beers were pretty good.

beer	style	format	OG	description
Tusker	Pale Ale	draught	1046
Trophy	Pale Ale	draught	1037	Pleasant bitter but rather thin.
Gauntlet	Pale Ale	keg		strong Bitter
AK	Mild	keg		pale
XX	Mild	keg	1033.0	dark
3 Star	Pale Ale	keg	1037.0
DA	Pale Ale	bottled	1028.0
LA	Light Ale	bottled	1033.0
Special Stout	Stout	bottled	1039.2
Nourishing Stout	Stout	bottled	1031.9
County Ale	Pale Ale	bottled	1049.5
IPA	IPA	bottled	1027.9
English Stock Bitter Ale	Pale Ale	bottled	1048.1
Elephant Light Ale	Pale Ale	bottled	1032.6
Queens Ale	Strong Ale	bottled	1053.3
Double Brown Ale	Brown Ale	bottled	1032.2

Fremlin (Maidstone)
Maidstone,
Kent.
Founded:         1790
Closed:            1972
Tied houses:    714

Bought in 1967. The original Fremlin brewery.



Kirkstall
Leeds,
West Yorkshire.
Founded:         1834
Closed:            1983
Tied houses:    

Bought 1953. Brewed no cask beer in the 1970s. Brewed some BYB-branded cask in the early 1980s. 

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