tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post988069212906556007..comments2024-03-29T03:17:49.172-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Friary Holroyd and Friary Meux beers 1926 - 1967Ron Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-55060412062583960122021-02-23T00:19:58.228-08:002021-02-23T00:19:58.228-08:00Friary Meux did continue to use the Friary and Meu...Friary Meux did continue to use the Friary and Meux names for a while after the merger: the labels for Friary Ale and Friary XXX Ale, for example, continued unchanged with the addition of “Friary Meux Ltd” and “London and Guildford” in small letters; and other bottled beers included Meux’s Treble Gold, Meux’s Night Cap Stout and Meux’s Stout (again with the addition of Friary Meux Ltd and London and Guildford). I’m not sure when this formula changed (though it squares with Ron’s list of Meux beers in 1960 in his last post), but new labels were introduced (probably around 1960 or a year or so thereafter) which dropped the “Meux’s” from the Treble Gold and Nightcap [sic] Stout labels. At this point the order of the two breweries was reversed, so that the labels stated “Guildford and London”. Friary Ale and Meux (rather than Meux’s) Stout were continued. The final change came after the closure of the old Meux’s brewery in 1965, when the labels dropped the reference to London.<br /><br />As far as draught beer is concerned, I’m not sure when the old Friary and Meux beers were dropped, but Ron’s table of Friary beers in this post suggests the draught beers were called Friary Meux by 1960; and this is backed up by the Which report on beer in 1960, which lists Friary Meux Mild and Bitter. The draught beers listed in “The Friary Meux Guide to London” (undated, but probably issued around the late 1950s and certainly no later than 1960) were Mild, Bitter, Burton (in season) and Treble Gold (Best Bitter). <br /><br />I believe, incidentally, that the prefix “Drum” (as in Drum Treble Gold on Ron’s list) signified a keg beer. This usage survived beyond the end of Friary Meux: I remember drinking Ind Coope Drum Bitter in the Oxford Union in the early 1970s; and, during Allied Breweries’ revival of the Friary Meux name in the 1980s, there was a Friary Meux Drum Mild.<br />John Lesternoreply@blogger.com