tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post8183738779386873321..comments2024-03-28T06:20:10.699-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Strong Bitter ca 1955Ron Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-36996071180004605612010-03-04T11:09:15.995-08:002010-03-04T11:09:15.995-08:00(Canadian-brewed) Molson Export Ale may be an exam...(Canadian-brewed) Molson Export Ale may be an example of the intermediate class mentioned. It's 5% ABV, pasteurized in the bottle at least, and indeed in taste sort of half way between English light ale (do those still exist?) and a traditional pale ale. It uses some adjunct but is still pretty good. I occasionally drink it on draft. The "Maple Leaf" in Covent Garden, London used to carry some of the Molson beers and perhaps still does. Molson Export Ale was at inception (circa-1903) a lagered ale, a top-fermented beer permitted to age cold. Perhaps that is what Campbell's export beers of the 1950's were, too.<br /><br />I really like the Campbell extracts. His influence on Michael Jackson is very evident even from these short pieces.<br /><br />GaryGary Gillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-16549686718389255892010-03-04T05:20:09.425-08:002010-03-04T05:20:09.425-08:00Barm, I think he's describing the pasteurised ...Barm, I think he's describing the pasteurised taste.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-240544719189830262010-03-04T05:00:47.990-08:002010-03-04T05:00:47.990-08:00What on earth does he mean by "a very slightl...What on earth does he mean by "a very slightly baked flavour"? I can't begin to imagine what a baked flavour in beer would be like.Rob Sterowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07870233673933087794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-41830717521668338632010-03-04T03:41:41.408-08:002010-03-04T03:41:41.408-08:00Thanks for that clarification. Nice to know I wasn...Thanks for that clarification. Nice to know I wasn't being totally stupid.<br /><br />Smith Garrett, eh? I've got a quote from the 1890's saying how bad their beer was.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-87042282127817814222010-03-04T03:26:38.454-08:002010-03-04T03:26:38.454-08:00the Hodgson's brewery in Kingston was the famo...<i>the Hodgson's brewery in Kingston was the famous IPA one</i><br /><br />Just to prove you can't believe all you read in books - no it wasn't, sorry. Mr Campbell is talking out of his arris, evidently confused by there being two brewers in London with the same name. The Bow Bridge Brewery and the Kingston one were completely different concerns, and I've never seen any evidence that the two Hodgson families were even related (it's not that uncommon a name). The Bow Bridge brewery was eventually, after a series of name changes, Smith Garrett & Co by 1869. In 1927 Smith Garrett was taken over by Taylor Walker of Limehouse, so you might find some of their records in the metropolitan archives under TW, or wherever Ind Coope/Allied Breweries' records ended up. The Bow brewery was demolished in 1933 to make way for London County Council flats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com