Wednesday, 8 July 2026

What is Scottish Seventy Shilling?

Another little video. This time about Seventy Shilling, or Heavy, one of the classic Scottish Pale Ales.

 

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Anonymous said...

Growing up in Newcastle and being an early CAMRA member I remember diving heavily into subjects like the shillings etc.
Our pub beers were well integrated into the Scottish styles, with McEwan's Scotch and Lorimers Scotch in the Scottish and Newcastle and Vaux pubs in particular. They were definitely 70/- ales.

Above them in strength were the Newcastle Exhibition and Vaux Samson which were 80/- and eventually joined on bar of the S&N pubs by McEwans 80/-.

In the clubs fed Ordinary and fed Special were the equivalent of 70/- and 80/- , with older club members referring to the Ordinary as "Fed Scotch" whilst having no connection with Scotland.

S&N even did a 60/- equivalent, Newcastle IPA served from tank, about 3.2% ABV. I last saw it in the 1990s. It had been dying out for yonks and eventually most pubs didn't devote tank space to it.

9 July 2026 at 16:18

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