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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.
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
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