Corona Quiz 03

[oldboots]

Are you ready for another? A couple of railway ones for Aqualung, beer for all.

1. Name all the breweries in Tadcaster and who currently owns them?

2. Monty Python star Terry Jones once owned a brewery, what was it called?

3. Which south eastern railway was run from the Midlands?

4. Which ground breaking brewer became a taxi driver before returning to brewing? Why is his brewery and some of it's beers called what they are?

5. Which brewery's logo looks the same when upside down?

6. What links a London railway terminus with a famous rural author and poet? Clue; is this obscure or just maddening the crowd by far?

7. Who invented Firkin pubs?

8. Pin, Firkin.... name the next three in the sequence?

9. Which English brewery claims to be the oldest and which one says they're wrong?

10. How are the Somerset village of Monkton Combe and Liverpool linked by railway? Which Liverpool pub is involved? And where does a London suburb fit into the show?

[Aqualung]

I knew 1,2,7 and 8 with the qualification of looking in the GBG to see if there were any new ones for question one. I'm really struggling with some of the others!
9 seems to be under current dispute but I've got two names.

[oldboots]

Answers:

1. John Smiths - Heinekin, Samuel Smiths - Mr Humphrey, Tower Brewery - Molson Coors.

2. Penrhos Court.

3. London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, run by the Midland Railway from 1912 (no beery conection except perhaps through the Midland Railway beer traffic from Burton to London). Aqualung was close with the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway which was a joint venture between the Midland and the LT&SR and so fits the bill too.

4. Sean Franklin, the brewery was originally called Franklins but after he returned to brewing he called it after his favourite John Wayne character Rooster Cogburn, some of the beer names also had their roots in the film True Grit.

5. Brass Castle.

6. Thomas Hardy, author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd, was an apprentice architect, one of his jobs was to supervise the disinterment of bodies at Old St Pancras churchyard when St Pancras station was built. Eldridge Pope of course produced Thomas Hardy Ale to celebrate his life and works. Fun Fact: - the arches under St Pancras station were spaced to allow the easy storage of beer casks between them. "The Field of Waterloo" is an inventive answer, it is a small part of a larger work called The Dynasts and a little obscure, but full marks as an acceptable answer.

7. David Bruce.

8. Kilderkin, Barrel, Hogshead. I discounted the Anker as that's a bit foreign.

9. Shepherd Neame always claim to be the oldest (1692) but Three Tuns in Bishops Castle claim to have started in 1642. They don't actually dis' Shep's on their website. Bit like "The Oldest Pub In England" saga.

10. The Ealing comedy "The Titfield Thunderbolt" was filmed in and around Monkton Combe, the locomotive used came from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and was really called Lion, the Lion is a famous pub opposite Liverpool Exchange station. Fun Fact: - In the film the railway is financed by Mr Valentine who agrees only because he can drink in the buffet car whenever the railway is running. (Ealing is a London suburb and "the show" refers to the film).

[Tris39]

Are you ready for another? A couple of railway ones for Aqualung, beer for all.

1. Name all the breweries in Tadcaster and who currently owns them?

2. Monty Python star Terry Jones once owned a brewery, what was it called?

3. Which south eastern railway was run from the Midlands?

4. Which ground breaking brewer became a taxi driver before returning to brewing? Why is his brewery and some of it's beers called what they are?

5. Which brewery's logo looks the same when upside down?

6. What links a London railway terminus with a famous rural author and poet? Clue; is this obscure or just maddening the crowd by far?

7. Who invented Firkin pubs?

8. Pin, Firkin.... name the next three in the sequence?

9. Which English brewery claims to be the oldest and which one says they're wrong?

10. How are the Somerset village of Monkton Combe and Liverpool linked by railway? Which Liverpool pub is involved? And where does a London suburb fit into the show?

Just 6. The answer's here so if you don't want to spoil it, don't click.

[london calling]

I presume we post our replies here.Without google here are mine
1 Sam Smiths
2 Penrhos. never had a beer from them
5 Bass maybe
6 Don't know but Thomas Hardy ale was brewed by Elridge Pope guess St Pancras
7 David Bruce
8 pin firkin kilderkin barrel hogshead
9 Shepherd Neame and Youngs Wandsworth site has been continuously brewing for longer (different brewers though)
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that's my lot
cheers

[oldboots]

If everyone who fancies a go at this one has done so, I'll post the answers later on today.

[Aqualung]

If everyone who fancies a go at this one has done so, I'll post the answers later on today.

I'll try and post mine before then.

[Aqualung]

1) John Smith owned by global abomination Heineken and Samuel Smith apparently owned by prize bar steward Humphrey Smith.

2) Penrhos Court.

3) Part of the North London Line, formerly the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway.

5) Three Tuns???

6) The Field of WATERLOO poem by Thomas Hardy.

7) David Bruce

8) Kilderkin, Barrel, Hogshead

9) Shepherd Neame & Three Tuns. Sheps are now claiming they go back to the 16th Century.

[ROBCamra]

No 5 is Brass Castle, used to buy from them before this shit, did a meet the brewer for us as well.

They're probably members of the Illuminati.

[Mobyduck]

A rather limited reply....

1 John Smiths - Heineken / Samuel Smiths - Samuel Smiths
7 David Bruce
8 Kilderkin ,barrel , Hogshead
9 Shepherd Neame /?