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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.





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