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There are indeed a couple of more types I’ve not done yet. Isn’t this fun? Just you and me a pile of dead beer brands. Well, mostly dead.

Because this set contains rather more survivors than the others. Why? Because they were already big international brands. You’ll be wondering which they are. I count seven: Amstel, Carling Black Label, Heineken, Graham’s Golden Lager (now called Skol), Pilsner Urquell, Carlsberg and Tuborg. Though, as you may have noticed many of these are just the name of the brewery rather than a real brand name.

Most of the British-brewed examples come from Lager pioneers, brewers that had a dedicated Lager brew house or only brewed Lager: Ind Coope, Red Tower and Wrexham Lager Brewery. This is an interesting point in the history of British Lager. When it was about to move from being a niche product to a mainstream one. A few years later at the end of the 1950’s many regional brewers started to market their own Lagers, though how many of them were actually bottom-fermented and lagered is anyone’s guess.

Oddly enough, Lager has come full circle. The Lagers from regional brewers have mostly disappeared, replaced either by national brands such as Carling or international brands like Carlsberg and Heineken. So very much like the early 1950’s. Isn’t that a strange turn of events?



Branded Lager in 1953


Brewery
Brand
Type


Amstel
Amstel
Lager


Anglo-Dutch Brewers (Distributors)
Golden Tree
Lager


Brading Breweries Ltd., Canada
Cincinnati Cream
Lager


Canadian Breweries (International)
Carling's Black Label
Lager


Castletown Brewery Ltd.
Anchor
Lager


Dyer Meakin Breweries
Golden Eagle
Lager


Heineken
Heineken's
Lager


Ind Coope & Allsopp
Graham's Golden Lager
Lager


Ind Coope & Allsopp
Jacob's Lager
Lager


Pilsner Breweries
Pilsner Urquell
Lager


Red Tower Lager Brewery
Red Tower
Lager


South Australian Brewery
Regal
Lager


Wurzburger Hofbrau, Bavaria
Wurzburger Hofbrau
Lager


Charles C. R. Walker (Export)
Wyvern Brand
Lager Beer


Carlsberg Byggerierne
Carlsberg
Lager Beers


Backus & Johnston's Brewery
Maltina
Lager Stout


Tuborg Breweries
Tuborg
Pilsener


Wrexham Lager Beer
Ace of Clubs
Pilsener


Bryggeriet Stjerhen
Danish Star
Danish Pilsner


Source:


Brewery Manual 1953-1954, pages 382 - 394.



Only odds and sods left. Those next, then.

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