Kent Beers in 1902

Doing one of my random searches of the British Newspaper Archive a fascinating page of adverts.

It's from a local paper and features advertisements from three breweries from the immediate vicinity. What fascinates me are the similarities and differences between the three brewery's ranges.

The only beer common to all three is my old favourite, AK. Tomson & Wotton even brewed two AKs, presumably at different strengths because the prices are different. Slightly weird to see an AK described as East India Pale Ale. Light Bitter, which how the other two breweries describe it, is more usual.

Shepherd Neame and Tomson & Wotton also both have a beer called KK as their strongest Pale Ale. While Rigden's is called XXK. Though that is another way of writing KK. The london breweries originally called their Stock Ales XXK, XXXK and XXXK, before switching over to KK, KKK and KKKK. At 60s, Shep's KK was a very expensive beer. That's about the same as you'd pay for a barrel of Bass Pale Ale, a beer that commanded a high price.

I'm sure Tomson & Wotton brewed a Mild, even though it isn't mentioned in their advert. Odd that the other two breweries both call theirs Mild Beer rather than the more standard Mild Ale. Note that both only have a single beer described as Mild.

I was surprised to see that the two Faversham breweries produced both Table Ale and Table Beer. Table anything was pretty rare in England by this point. It had long been dropped by the big London brewers. The examples here must have been pretty low gravity as they're under 30s per barrel. At that price, they's have to be under 1040º.

Porter was already starting to die out in the provinces by this time. Though it seems to have clung on longer in the Southeast, possibly because of the proximity to London. Porter remained popular in the capital longer than elsewhere.

There's only one Strong Ale, Rigden's XXX. Which I'm guessing is a Stock Ale rather than a Stock Pale Ale.

Kent Beers in 1902
Brewery	Place	year	beer	price per barrel (s)	price per gallon (d)
Shepherd Neame	Faversham	1902	Stock KK India Pale Ale	60	20
Shepherd Neame	Faversham	1902	East India Pale Ale, No. 1	48	16
Shepherd Neame	Faversham	1902	East India Pale Ale, No. 2	36	12
Shepherd Neame	Faversham	1902	East India Pale Ale, AK	34	11.33
Shepherd Neame	Faversham	1902	Mild Beer	36	12
Shepherd Neame	Faversham	1902	Table Ale	28	9.33
Shepherd Neame	Faversham	1902	Table Beer	24	8
Shepherd Neame	Faversham	1902	Stout	50	16.67
Shepherd Neame	Faversham	1902	Porter	36	12
W.E. & J. Rigden	Faversham	1902	XXK Bitter Ale	50	16.67
W.E. & J. Rigden	Faversham	1902	SA Special Ale	42	14
W.E. & J. Rigden	Faversham	1902	AK Light Bitter Ale	36	12
W.E. & J. Rigden	Faversham	1902	XXX Stock Ale	58	19.33
W.E. & J. Rigden	Faversham	1902	X Mild Beer	36	12
W.E. & J. Rigden	Faversham	1902	TA Table Ale	28	9.33
W.E. & J. Rigden	Faversham	1902	TB Table Beer	22	7.33
W.E. & J. Rigden	Faversham	1902	DBS Double Brown Stout	53	17.67
W.E. & J. Rigden	Faversham	1902	Nourishing Stout	48	16
W.E. & J. Rigden	Faversham	1902	P Porter	36	12
Tomson & Wotton	Ramsgate	1902	AK Light Bitter Ale	30	10
Tomson & Wotton	Ramsgate	1902	AK Light Bitter Ale	36	12
Tomson & Wotton	Ramsgate	1902	AKK Pale Ale	42	14
Tomson & Wotton	Ramsgate	1902	KK Pale Ale	48	16
Source:
Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald - Saturday 06 December 1902, page 1.

Bottled beers in the 1860's

Hello. It's me again, with yet more stuff about bottled beer. Not quite sure how we've ended up in bottled beer week. Well, bottled beer fortnight, more like. You'd best just pray I don't dig out my copy of "Bottling of British Beers". I'd be busy for a month or two. Though that has just inspired me to do a quick search in the Journal of the Institute of Brewing. Make that six months.

As you can see, I've lumped the beers into styles in a fairly haphazard way. It's not very consistent, as I've given Scotch Ales their own category and listed the Burton Ales as Strong Ales.

The trends in bottled beer are clear in this set. Lots of Pale Ales/IPA, Stout and Strong Ales. Just a few Table Ales, Porters and Mild Ales. Also clear is how the list is dominated by a few large breweries: Bass, Allsopp and Guinness. Bass and Allsopp seem to have had the bottled IPA market pretty much sewn up between them. Guinness likewise with the bottled Stout market, though Barclay Perkins was still hanging in there.

Talking of Barclay Perkins, I have details of their beers that appear in the table. It's a bit complicated for two reasons. First, I don't have details from the exact year, 1867, but a decade earlier, 1856. Second, there are no beers called Double Stout and Extra Stout in the brewing records. The brewhouse names for their Porters and Stouts were:

Barclay Perkins Porter/Stout in 1856
beer	description	OG
TT	Running Porter	1060
EI	East India Porter	1061
Hhd	Keeping Porter	1060
FSt	Family Stout	1061
BSt	Brown Stout	1092
IBSt	Imperial Stout	1107
Source:
Barclay Perkins brewing record held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number ACC/2305/1/542.

It looks like the Double Stout was BSt and the London Stout was FSt. I only have details of TT from the late 1860's, when it had a gravity of around 1055. Assuming a similar fall (about 8%) in the OG, that would leave BSt at 1084 and FSt at 1056.

It's interesting to see that the Burton brewers were still very much in the strong Burton Ale business, despite the enormous fame of the Pale Ales of Bass and Allsopp. In fact, they were even in the Mild Ale business still - all the Mild Ales in the table (the unknown one excepted) are from Burton.

Hang on, I've some idea of the Bass gravities of this period, too. A little bit later, but still pretty close:

Bass OG's in the 1870's
Beer	OG
India Pale Ale	1060
No. 1 Burton Ale	1110
No. 2 Burton Ale	1090
No. 3a Ale (Old Ale)	1085
No. 3b Ale(Bottling)	1085
No. 3 Burton Ale	1075
No. 4 Burton Ale	1070
No. 5 Burton Ale	1065
No. 6 Burton Ale	1060
No. 2 (P2) Imperial Stout	1095
No. 3 (P3) Extra Stout	1075
No. 4 (P4) Double Stout	1070
No. 5 (P5) Stout	1065
Source:
Bass price list

My guess would be that the XX Mild Ale is No. 6 Burton Ale. The Pale Ale is pretty obvious. Based on the price, the Bass Burton Ale from 1861 looks like No. 3 Burton Ale. Allsopps "Burton Ale (Extra Strong, No. 1)" presumably was a similar strength to Bass No. 1

And finally we get to Cooper. The term usually meant a mixture of Porter and Stout. I suspect by this time, when referring to a bottled beer, it was often straight Porter. Though in this case that can't be true as it's more expensive than the cheapest Stout, No. 3 Stout. At the price it was being sold at, No. 3 Stout looks like it was of Porter-strength. Why did the name Porter so fall out of favour as a bottled beer? It's an odd one, that.

Surprisingly, Table Ale was still kicking around. It gradually faded away in the second half of the 19th century, its place being taken by another type of low-gravity beer: Light Dinner Ale. A style which eventually dropped the Dinner and became plain old Light Ale. One of the styles most threatened with extinction

I think you can guess what will be coming next - the 1870's.

Bottled beers in the 1860's
Brewery	Place	year	beer	style	price per dozen	size	source
Fremlins	Maidstone	1867	Cooper	Cooper	2s 9d	Imperial pint	Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 27 August 1887, page 1.
Unknown	Alloa	1861	Light Alloa Dinner Ale	Dinner Ale	3s	Imperial pint	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 20 July 1861, page 4
Bass	Burton	1861	India Pale Ale	IPA	4s	pint	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 20 July 1861, page 4
Bass	Burton	1861	India Pale Ale	IPA	5s	Imperial pint	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 20 July 1861, page 4
Bass	Burton	1861	India Pale Ale	IPA	7s	quart	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 20 July 1861, page 4
Bass	Burton	1861	Pale India Ale	IPA	7s	quart	Alnwick Mercury - Friday 01 March 1861, page 1
Allsopp	Burton	1863	India Pale Ale	IPA	6s 6d	reputed quart	Bucks Herald - Saturday 12 September 1863, page 4.
Allsopp	Burton	1863	India Pale Ale	IPA	3s 9d	reputed pint	Bucks Herald - Saturday 12 September 1863, page 4.
Allsopp	Burton	1863	India Pale Ale	IPA	4s 9d	Imperial pint	Bucks Herald - Saturday 12 September 1863, page 4.
Robinson	Burton	1865	India Pale Ale	IPA	5s 9d	quart	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Robinson	Burton	1865	India Pale Ale	IPA	4s	Imperial pint	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Robinson	Burton	1865	India Pale Ale	IPA	3s	reputed pint	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Bass	Burton	1866	Pale Ale	IPA	7s	quart	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 316
Bass	Burton	1866	Pale Ale	IPA	4s	pint	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 316
Allsopp	Burton	1866	Pale Ale	IPA	7s	quart	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 316
Allsopp	Burton	1866	Pale Ale	IPA	4s	pint	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 316
Bass	Burton	1866	Pale Ale	IPA	7s	quart	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 341
Bass	Burton	1866	Pale Ale	IPA	4s	pint	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 341
Allsopp	Burton	1866	Pale Ale	IPA	7s	quart	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 341
Allsopp	Burton	1866	Pale Ale	IPA	4s	pint	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 341
Allsopp	Burton	1867	East India Pale Ale	IPA	6s 6d	quart	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Allsopp	Burton	1867	East India Pale Ale	IPA	5s	Imperial pint	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Allsopp	Burton	1867	East India Pale Ale	IPA	3s 9d	reputed pint	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Bass	Burton	1868	Pale Ale	IPA	4s		Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops & Wales, 1868
Allsopp	Burton	1868	Pale Ale	IPA	4s		Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops & Wales, 1868
Bass	Burton	1861	Fine Mild XX Ale	Mild Ale	6s	quart	Alnwick Mercury - Friday 01 March 1861, page 1
Allsopp	Burton	1863	Fine Mild Burton Ale	Mild Ale	5s 6d	reputed quart	Bucks Herald - Saturday 12 September 1863, page 4.
Allsopp	Burton	1863	Fine Mild Burton Ale	Mild Ale	3s 3d	reputed pint	Bucks Herald - Saturday 12 September 1863, page 4.
???	???	1868	Fine Mild Ale	Mild Ale	3s 6d		Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops & Wales, 1868
Unknown	Unknown	1861	Fine Pale Ale	Pale Ale	5s 6d	quart	Alnwick Mercury - Friday 01 March 1861, page 1
Fremlins	Maidstone	1867	No. 5 Light Bitter Beer	Pale Ale	2s 6d	Imperial pint	Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 27 August 1887, page 1.
Fremlins	Maidstone	1867	No. 4 Family Ale	Pale Ale	3s	Imperial pint	Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 27 August 1887, page 1.
Fremlins	Maidstone	1867	No. 3 Bitter Ale	Pale Ale	3s 6d	Imperial pint	Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 27 August 1887, page 1.
Fremlins	Maidstone	1867	No. 2 Pale Ale	Pale Ale	3s 9d	Imperial pint	Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 27 August 1887, page 1.
Unknown	London	1861	Best London Porter	Porter	4s 6d	quart	Alnwick Mercury - Friday 01 March 1861, page 1
Unknown	Unknown	1861	Superior Strong Scotch Ale	Scotch Ale	5s	pint	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 20 July 1861, page 4
Unknown	Unknown	1861	Superior Strong Scotch Ale	Scotch Ale	8s	quart	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 20 July 1861, page 4
Unknown	Scotland	1866	Scotch Ale	Scotch Ale	10s	quart	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 341
Unknown	Scotland	1866	Scotch Ale	Scotch Ale	5s 6d	pint	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 341
???	???	1868	Scotch Ale	Scotch Ale	4s 6d		Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops & Wales, 1868
Guinness	Dublin	1861	Extra Stout	Stout	4s	pint	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 20 July 1861, page 4
Guinness	Dublin	1861	Extra Stout	Stout	5s	Imperial pint	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 20 July 1861, page 4
Guinness	Dublin	1861	Extra Stout	Stout	7s	quart	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 20 July 1861, page 4
Unknown	London	1861	Best London Stout	Stout	5s 6d	quart	Alnwick Mercury - Friday 01 March 1861, page 1
Guinness	Dublin	1861	Dublin Stout	Stout	6s 6d	quart	Alnwick Mercury - Friday 01 March 1861, page 1
Guinness	Dublin	1863	Extra Stout	Stout	6s 6d	reputed quart	Bucks Herald - Saturday 12 September 1863, page 4.
Guinness	Dublin	1863	Extra Stout	Stout	3s 9d	reputed pint	Bucks Herald - Saturday 12 September 1863, page 4.
Guinness	Dublin	1863	Extra Stout	Stout	4s 9d	Imperial pint	Bucks Herald - Saturday 12 September 1863, page 4.
Guinness	Dublin	1864	Dublin Stout	Stout	3s 6d	pint	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 04 June 1864, page 2.
Guinness	Dublin	1864	Dublin Stout	Stout	6s 6d	quart	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 04 June 1864, page 2.
Guinness	Dublin	1865	Extra Stout	Stout	5s 9d	quart	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Guinness	Dublin	1865	Extra Stout	Stout	4s	Imperial pint	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Guinness	Dublin	1865	Extra Stout	Stout	3s	reputed pint	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Guinness	Dublin	1866	Extra Stout	Stout	7s	quart	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 316
Guinness	Dublin	1866	Extra Stout	Stout	4s	pint	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 316
Guinness	Dublin	1866	Extra Stout	Stout	7s	quart	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 341
Guinness	Dublin	1866	Extra Stout	Stout	4s	pint	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 341
Guinness	Dublin	1867	Extra Stout	Stout	6s 6d	quart	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Guinness	Dublin	1867	Extra Stout	Stout	5s	Imperial pint	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Guinness	Dublin	1867	Extra Stout	Stout	3s 9d	reputed pint	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Barclay Perkins	London	1867	Double Stout	Stout	5s 6d	quart	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Barclay Perkins	London	1867	Double Stout	Stout	4s 3d	Imperial pint	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Barclay Perkins	London	1867	Double Stout	Stout	3s	reputed pint	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Barclay Perkins	London	1867	London Stout	Stout	4s 3d	quart	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Barclay Perkins	London	1867	London Stout	Stout	3s 6d	Imperial pint	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Barclay Perkins	London	1867	London Stout	Stout	2s 9d	reputed pint	Hertford Mercury and Reformer - Saturday 02 March 1867, page 1
Fremlins	Maidstone	1867	No. 3 Stout	Stout	2s 6d	Imperial pint	Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 27 August 1887, page 1.
Fremlins	Maidstone	1867	No. 2 Stout	Stout	3s 6d	Imperial pint	Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 27 August 1887, page 1.
Fremlins	Maidstone	1867	No. 1 Stout	Stout	4s	Imperial pint	Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 27 August 1887, page 1.
Guinness	Dublin	1868	Extra Stout	Stout	3s 6d		Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops & Wales, 1868
Bass	Burton	1861	Burton Ale	Strong Ale	4s 6d	Imperial pint	Northampton Mercury - Saturday 20 July 1861, page 4
Allsopp	Burton	1863	Burton Ale (Extra Strong, No. 1)	Strong Ale	6s 6d	Imperial pint	Bucks Herald - Saturday 12 September 1863, page 4.
Robinson	Burton	1865	Extra Strong Burton	Strong Ale	6s	quart	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Robinson	Burton	1865	Extra Strong Burton	Strong Ale	4s 3d	Imperial pint	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Robinson	Burton	1865	Extra Strong Burton	Strong Ale	3s 6d	reputed pint	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Robinson	Burton	1865	Strong Burton	Strong Ale	4s 6d	quart	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Robinson	Burton	1865	Strong Burton	Strong Ale	3s 6d	Imperial pint	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Robinson	Burton	1865	Strong Burton	Strong Ale	2s 6d	reputed pint	Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 15 December 1865, page 8
Unknown	Burton	1866	Burton Ale, strong	Strong Ale	11s	quart	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 341
Unknown	Burton	1866	Burton Ale, strong	Strong Ale	6s	pint	The commercial and general directory of the town and parish of Croydon, 1866, page 341
Unknown	Unknown	1861	Table Ale	Table Ale	3s 6d	quart	Alnwick Mercury - Friday 01 March 1861, page 1
???	???	1868	Imperial Table Ale	Table Ale	2s 6d		Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops & Wales, 1868

Aitchison beers 1843 - 1859

Advertisements can tell you a lot. That's why I actively search them out. Not with too much success when it comes to Scottish breweries. Except in the case of Aitchison, where I found a nice set of ads from the middle of the 19th century.

Irritatingly, many of the adverts don't specify the bottle size. That's why I've put "quart?" in the table. My guess would be that they are reputed quarts. A reputed quart is two thirds of an Imperial quart, or 757.7 ml. The ones marked "pint" and "quart" look like Imperial measures. At least when I compare the price of the same beer on draught.

So they're a bit easier to see at a glance, I've put them into a table. There are five main types of beer on offer: Table Ale, Edinburgh Ale, Strong Ale, Draught Ale and Mild Ale. But on closer observation it becomes clear that the same beers are being described by different names.

Let's start with everyone's favourite nowadays, India Pale Ale. Though it isn't always called that in the adverts. It also appears as India Ale, Pale India Beer, Pale Export India Beer and Pale India Ale. Couldn't they make their mind up what to call it? It's a great demonstration of just how inconsistent British breweries were in their naming conventions.

Interesting that Aitchison were already brewing IPA in 1840. That's pretty early. But we've already learned that Scottish brewers were quick to jump on the Pale Ale train. Though Aitchison's prices were lower than those of Allsopp. In 1845 a dozen quarts of Allsopp's IPA cost 4s 6d. I guess the big Burton brewers could get away with charging more.

Handy that the 1840 advert has a description of Aitchison's IPA: "Highly hopped and attenuated India Ale." Just for the last few brainwashed style nazis out there who still believe that Scottish beer only ever had a few hops waved at it. The description pretty much sums up the characteristics of early IPA: heavily hopped and highly attenuated.

Next we come to Table Ale. Slightly odd choice of name there. Usually it was called Table Beer, especially if it was heavily hopped, as was often the case. Being low gravity it often needed a good dose of hops to stop it spoiling too quickly. We know this one was heavily hopped because the advert says so "highly Hopped, an excellent Stomachic". The price is surprisingly high: the same as the India Ale.

The Scots seem to have had a name for Table Beer. It's not a type of beer that you would normally expect to get shipped very far. Yet Scottish breweries were selling it as far away as London.

Now Edinburgh Ale. Or perhaps I should just say Ale, because the names Edinburgh, Scotch and Mild Ale seem to be used interchangeably. With some additionally being called Strong Ale. Then there's Pale Edinburgh Ale as well. My guess is that these would have been Shilling Ales within the brewery. Or Guinea Ales. You can see that in 1845 advert that guinea designations are used for what were described as Mild Ales.

Scottish Ales, even the very strong ones, were usually sold young. Which made them technically Mild Ales. Though as you can see, often the terms Edinburgh Ale or Scotch Ale were preferred. Confusing, isn't it? It's taken me years to get my head around it.

Now I just happen to have details of William Younger's beers from 1847. Assuming that Aitchison's would have been roughly similar, we can get some idea of their strength. Five guineas is 105/-, seven guineas 147/-. Younger's 100/- had an OG of 1090º and their 140/- an OG of 1112º. So pretty damn strong.

I assume Draught Ale is another beer of this type. But it's impossible to be sure. The naming is just too vague.

So we can see the main products of Aitchison: IPA and strong Mild Ales. Very typically Scottish.

Aitchison beers 1843 - 1859
year	beer	price per barrel (shillings)	price per gallon (pence)	price per doz bottles	size	source
1840	Edinburgh Table Ale, highly Hopped, an excellent Stomachic			3s	quart?	Newcastle Courant - Friday 17 April 1840. page 1.
1840	Edinburgh Ale, strongest and best made			8s	quart?	Newcastle Courant - Friday 17 April 1840. page 1.
1840	Draught Ale,	72	24			Newcastle Courant - Friday 17 April 1840. page 1.
1840	Strong Edinburgh Ale			6s	quart?	Northern Liberator - Saturday 12 December 1840, page 8.
1840	Superior Ale			4s 6d	quart?	Northern Liberator - Saturday 12 December 1840, page 8.
1840	High hopped Table Ale			3s	quart?	Northern Liberator - Saturday 12 December 1840, page 8.
1840	Highly hopped and attenuated India Ale			3s	quart?	Northern Liberator - Saturday 12 December 1840, page 8.
1840	Best Draught Ale	72	24			Northern Liberator - Saturday 12 December 1840, page 8.
1840	Best Draught Porter	48	16			Northern Liberator - Saturday 12 December 1840, page 8.
1842	Edinburgh Ale			4s	quart	Morning Post (London) - Monday 04 April 1842, page 1.
1842	Edinburgh Ale			6s	quart	Morning Post (London) - Monday 04 April 1842, page 1.
1842	Edinburgh Ale			8s	quart	Morning Post (London) - Monday 04 April 1842, page 1.
1842	Pale India Beer			4s	quart	Morning Post (London) - Monday 04 April 1842, page 1.
1842	draught Pale India Beer	48	16			Morning Post (London) - Monday 04 April 1842, page 1.
1843	Splendid Edinburgh Ale, Strongest			6s	quart?	Newcastle Journal - Saturday 06 May 1843, page 2.
1843	Fine Pale Edinburgh Ale			4s 6d	quart?	Newcastle Journal - Saturday 06 May 1843, page 2.
1843	India Pale Ale, much esteemed			3s	quart?	Newcastle Journal - Saturday 06 May 1843, page 2.
1843	Superior India Pale Ale			3s	quart?	Newcastle Journal - Saturday 05 August 1843, page 1.
1843	Splendid Ale			4s 6d	quart?	Newcastle Journal - Saturday 05 August 1843, page 1.
1843	Strongest Ale			6s	quart?	Newcastle Journal - Saturday 05 August 1843, page 1.
1843	Prime Strong Ale (Old Bottle 1)			6s	quart?	Newcastle Courant - Friday 22 December 1843, page 1.
1843	Prime Strong Ale (Old Bottle 1)			4s 6d	quart?	Newcastle Courant - Friday 22 December 1843, page 1.
1843	Pale India Ale			3s	quart?	Newcastle Courant - Friday 22 December 1843, page 1.
1843	Prime Draught Ale	72	24			Newcastle Courant - Friday 22 December 1843, page 1.
1844	Edinburgh Ale			3s	quart?	Newcastle Courant - Friday 10 May 1844, page 1.
1844	Edinburgh Ale			4s 6d	quart?	Newcastle Courant - Friday 10 May 1844, page 1.
1844	Edinburgh Ale			6s	quart?	Newcastle Courant - Friday 10 May 1844, page 1.
1845	Pale Export India Beer			3s	quart	Newcastle Courant - Friday 09 May 1845, page 1.
1845	Mild Ale (5 guineas a hogshead)			4s 6d	quart	Newcastle Courant - Friday 09 May 1845, page 1.
1845	Mild Ale (7 guineas a hogshead)			6s	quart	Newcastle Courant - Friday 09 May 1845, page 1.
1845	Mild Ale (5 guineas a hogshead)	70	23.33			Newcastle Courant - Friday 09 May 1845, page 1.
1845	Mild Ale (7 guineas a hogshead)	98	32.67			Newcastle Courant - Friday 09 May 1845, page 1.
1845	Draught Ale	72	24			Newcastle Courant - Friday 09 May 1845, page 1.
1846	Pale Export India Beer			3s	quart?	Newcastle Courant - Friday 19 June 1846, page 1.
1846	Rich Flavoured Edinburgh Ale			4s 6d	quart?	Newcastle Courant - Friday 19 June 1846, page 1.
1846	Strongest and Best Edinburgh Ale			6s	quart?	Newcastle Courant - Friday 19 June 1846, page 1.
1846	Draught Ale	72	24			Newcastle Courant - Friday 19 June 1846, page 1.
1848	Edinburgh Ale			3s 6d	pint	Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 25 November 1848, page 1.
1848	Edinburgh Ale			6s	quart	Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 25 November 1848, page 1.
1848	Pale India Ale			3s 6d	pint	Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 25 November 1848, page 1.
1848	Pale India Ale			6s	quart	Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 25 November 1848, page 1.
1859	Pale Ale	54	18			Newcastle Courant - Friday 29 July 1859, page 1.
1859	Six Guinea Ale	84	28			Newcastle Courant - Friday 29 July 1859, page 1.
1859	Draught Scotch Ale	56	18.67			Newcastle Courant - Friday 29 July 1859, page 1.