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10-06-2016, 07:05
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I didn't realise that Boak & Bailey had already written about this event. It was a few years back, so I've a good excuse for forgetting. I can't remember everything I wrote last month, let alone what someone else wrote a few years ago.
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They'd found other references to the event. Including one that gave a full list of the participating breweries. It's an odd list. Of the 30 breweries, only two still exist: Donnington and Dreher (now called Schwechat). And there's an oddity straight off. I can't think of many lists that would include the largest brewery in Continental Europe and a tiny rural brewery in the West Country.
You know how much time I spend with my head stuffed up the past's arse. But I only recognised six names in the list. Meaning most couldn't have made it into the 20th century. It also implies that they weren't very big. Dreher aside, none of the participants was particularly well-known.
There are none of the big names in British brewing: Bass, Allsopp, Whitbread, Truman, Barclay Perkins, William Younger, Charrington, Mann, Watney, Beamish & Crawford, Guinness and Tetley.
Brewery
Town
County/Country
Anton Dreher
Vienna
Austria
Franz Erich
Bavaria
W. J. Green, Phoenix Brewery
Luton
Bedfordshire
Wm. Potts, Anchor Brewery
Cambridgeshire
Magor, Davey, and Co., Redruth Brewery
Redruth
Cornwall
Nicholl and Co.
Colchester
Essex
R. J. Arkell, Donnnington Brewery
Stow-on-the-Wold
Gloucestershire
E. Bowley and Son, Cotswold Brewery
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
J. Richings, London Brewery
Guernsey
Biden and Co.
Gosport
Hampshire
J. Lush, St, George's Brewery
Portsea
Hampshire
John Steal, Pale Ale Brewery
Baldock
Hertfordshire
Henry and Co.
Newry
Ireland
Hills and Son
Deal
Kent
Beer and Co., Original Brewery
Canterbury
Kent
Gillow and Wareham, East Kent Brewery
Sandwich
Kent
Jude and Co., Kent Brewery
Wateringbury
Kent
Stacey, Isherwood, and Foster
Maidstone
Kent
J. W.Crosby, Crown Brewery
West Derby, Liverpool
Lancashire
Hornby And Co.
Liverpool
Lancashire
Monro and Co.
Warrington
Lancashire
Sidgwick and Mottram, Sun Brewery
Salford, Manchester
Lancashire
Boddington and Co., Strangeways Brewery
Manchester
Lancashire, and Burton-on-Trent
Nunnelly and Eady, The Brewery
Market Harboro'
Leicestershire
Horton and Co., Dalston Brewery
Haggerstone
Middlesex
Byles and Co., Grey's Brewery
Henley-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
T. P. Adcock and I. J. Fast
Melton Mowbray
Rutland
E. A. Green, Western Brewery
Bath
Somerset
Phillips Bros.
Burton-on-Trent
Staffordshire, and Northampton
G. S. and H Sainsbury
Devizes
Wiltshire
The geographical spread is very uneven, too. No breweries from Scotland, nor from anywhere in North other than Lancashire. Unsurprisingly given the event's location, a majority are from the South - 17 of 30. Though none are from London.
Region
No. breweries
South
2
Southeast
10
Southwest
5
Midlands
4
North
5
Channel Islands
1
Ireland
1
Foreign
2
Total
30
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-first-beer-festival-participants.html)
I didn't realise that Boak & Bailey had already written about this event. It was a few years back, so I've a good excuse for forgetting. I can't remember everything I wrote last month, let alone what someone else wrote a few years ago.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HavKfENjG-M/V1ExsMOLiYI/AAAAAAAAZ8s/t-vHTinHoXMXVArKfNuln_sNZ4D920vCQCLcB/s320/Boddington_Extra_Stout_1957.jpg (https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HavKfENjG-M/V1ExsMOLiYI/AAAAAAAAZ8s/t-vHTinHoXMXVArKfNuln_sNZ4D920vCQCLcB/s1600/Boddington_Extra_Stout_1957.jpg)
They'd found other references to the event. Including one that gave a full list of the participating breweries. It's an odd list. Of the 30 breweries, only two still exist: Donnington and Dreher (now called Schwechat). And there's an oddity straight off. I can't think of many lists that would include the largest brewery in Continental Europe and a tiny rural brewery in the West Country.
You know how much time I spend with my head stuffed up the past's arse. But I only recognised six names in the list. Meaning most couldn't have made it into the 20th century. It also implies that they weren't very big. Dreher aside, none of the participants was particularly well-known.
There are none of the big names in British brewing: Bass, Allsopp, Whitbread, Truman, Barclay Perkins, William Younger, Charrington, Mann, Watney, Beamish & Crawford, Guinness and Tetley.
Brewery
Town
County/Country
Anton Dreher
Vienna
Austria
Franz Erich
Bavaria
W. J. Green, Phoenix Brewery
Luton
Bedfordshire
Wm. Potts, Anchor Brewery
Cambridgeshire
Magor, Davey, and Co., Redruth Brewery
Redruth
Cornwall
Nicholl and Co.
Colchester
Essex
R. J. Arkell, Donnnington Brewery
Stow-on-the-Wold
Gloucestershire
E. Bowley and Son, Cotswold Brewery
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
J. Richings, London Brewery
Guernsey
Biden and Co.
Gosport
Hampshire
J. Lush, St, George's Brewery
Portsea
Hampshire
John Steal, Pale Ale Brewery
Baldock
Hertfordshire
Henry and Co.
Newry
Ireland
Hills and Son
Deal
Kent
Beer and Co., Original Brewery
Canterbury
Kent
Gillow and Wareham, East Kent Brewery
Sandwich
Kent
Jude and Co., Kent Brewery
Wateringbury
Kent
Stacey, Isherwood, and Foster
Maidstone
Kent
J. W.Crosby, Crown Brewery
West Derby, Liverpool
Lancashire
Hornby And Co.
Liverpool
Lancashire
Monro and Co.
Warrington
Lancashire
Sidgwick and Mottram, Sun Brewery
Salford, Manchester
Lancashire
Boddington and Co., Strangeways Brewery
Manchester
Lancashire, and Burton-on-Trent
Nunnelly and Eady, The Brewery
Market Harboro'
Leicestershire
Horton and Co., Dalston Brewery
Haggerstone
Middlesex
Byles and Co., Grey's Brewery
Henley-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
T. P. Adcock and I. J. Fast
Melton Mowbray
Rutland
E. A. Green, Western Brewery
Bath
Somerset
Phillips Bros.
Burton-on-Trent
Staffordshire, and Northampton
G. S. and H Sainsbury
Devizes
Wiltshire
The geographical spread is very uneven, too. No breweries from Scotland, nor from anywhere in North other than Lancashire. Unsurprisingly given the event's location, a majority are from the South - 17 of 30. Though none are from London.
Region
No. breweries
South
2
Southeast
10
Southwest
5
Midlands
4
North
5
Channel Islands
1
Ireland
1
Foreign
2
Total
30
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-first-beer-festival-participants.html)