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Operating on a slightly larger, but still pretty localised, scale was another group of brewers.
Other than Okell, which was rather inaccessible on the Isle of Man, Ann Street ditto in the Channel Islands and Gray which had stopped brewing by the time I was really drinking, I drank beers from all of this set.
Felinfoel was one of the first beers that I served at the Great British Beer Festival. Lovely stuff – and in great condition – it was, too. King & Barnes. Well, I loved that brewery. Such good beer. I was so annoyed when they closed. Jennings I have very happy memories of from a holiday in the Lakes with my brother.
Holts I only ever drank in their tied houses. Because they didn’t sell their beer anywhere else. Including beer festivals. I drank in one of their Salford houses which had no branding on the outside, no pump clips and I had to lean over the bar to look at the bottles to work out which brewery’s beer was being served. Low-key or what?
Hydes owned one of my favourite pubs, not just in Manchester, but anywhere: The Jolly Angler. The beer was pretty good, too. Straightforward Mild and Bitter.
My time in Swindon left me with a very soft spot for Arkells. Especially BBB. A typically malty Southwestern Bitter.
Despite being pretty small, Adnams beers had a good reputation and started turning up in free houses in London. Where, sadly, it wasn’t always in as good condition as it was at beer festivals. When looked after well, their Bitter was lovely.
Wards brewed an excellent Dark Mild which was, unfortunately, difficult to find in their hometown of Sheffield. It being very much a Bitter town already in the 1970s.
Breweries with 50 to 99 tied houses in 1973
brewery
no. tied houses
brewery
no. tied houses
Ann Street
50
Adnams
70
Hydes
50
Felinfoel
75
Gray
52
Jennings
79
Gibbs Mew
55
Holt
80
King & Barnes
58
Okell
80
Arkell
62
Gale
88
Ridley
62
Ward (Vaux)
96
Elgood
65
Total pubs
1,087
Palmer
65
Total breweries
16
Source:
The Beer Drinker's Companion by Frank Baillie, 1974.
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Operating on a slightly larger, but still pretty localised, scale was another group of brewers.
Other than Okell, which was rather inaccessible on the Isle of Man, Ann Street ditto in the Channel Islands and Gray which had stopped brewing by the time I was really drinking, I drank beers from all of this set.
Felinfoel was one of the first beers that I served at the Great British Beer Festival. Lovely stuff – and in great condition – it was, too. King & Barnes. Well, I loved that brewery. Such good beer. I was so annoyed when they closed. Jennings I have very happy memories of from a holiday in the Lakes with my brother.
Holts I only ever drank in their tied houses. Because they didn’t sell their beer anywhere else. Including beer festivals. I drank in one of their Salford houses which had no branding on the outside, no pump clips and I had to lean over the bar to look at the bottles to work out which brewery’s beer was being served. Low-key or what?
Hydes owned one of my favourite pubs, not just in Manchester, but anywhere: The Jolly Angler. The beer was pretty good, too. Straightforward Mild and Bitter.
My time in Swindon left me with a very soft spot for Arkells. Especially BBB. A typically malty Southwestern Bitter.
Despite being pretty small, Adnams beers had a good reputation and started turning up in free houses in London. Where, sadly, it wasn’t always in as good condition as it was at beer festivals. When looked after well, their Bitter was lovely.
Wards brewed an excellent Dark Mild which was, unfortunately, difficult to find in their hometown of Sheffield. It being very much a Bitter town already in the 1970s.
Breweries with 50 to 99 tied houses in 1973
brewery
no. tied houses
brewery
no. tied houses
Ann Street
50
Adnams
70
Hydes
50
Felinfoel
75
Gray
52
Jennings
79
Gibbs Mew
55
Holt
80
King & Barnes
58
Okell
80
Arkell
62
Gale
88
Ridley
62
Ward (Vaux)
96
Elgood
65
Total pubs
1,087
Palmer
65
Total breweries
16
Source:
The Beer Drinker's Companion by Frank Baillie, 1974.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2024/01/local-brewers-in-1973-part-two.html)