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I was watching a YouTube vid about the and while talking about his beers the brewer mentioned that one was modelled on an Australian Pale Ale which had been brewed by the Ashby Brewery in Staines which closed in the 1930s.
A bit of googling found this which says amongst other things:
[SIZE=11pt]By September 5 1842, they were advertising in the Times “Ashby’s Australian Pale Ale” which the advert described as: “the most pleasant of all the different sorts of bitter beer that we have ever tasted.” A later advertisement, from the following year, declared that Ashby’s had been exporting to “the Australian colonies” since 1829 and the beer “resembles the East India pale ale in flavour and colour, with rather more body.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt](Martyn Cornell: [/SIZE][SIZE=11pt]http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/inside-the-pale/[/SIZE][SIZE=11pt])[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]They were imported to Australia by Lionel Samson – “In the 1880's Lionel Samson was the single largest importer of beers and spirits from J.Jeffrey Brewers, Charles Ashby Brewers, Samuel Alsop Brewers, Gilbey Wines and Spirits.”[/SIZE][SIZE=11pt]http://www.lionelsamson.com.au/history/[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Zythophile references the Times of London:[/SIZE]
The very first mention of the term “bitter beer” in The Times comes on September 5 1842, in a small advertisement for “Ashby’s Australian Pale Ale”, which “is the most pleasant of all the different sorts of bitter beer that we have ever tasted,” according to a newspaper quoted in the ad. So the first time we find bitter beer being mentioned, it is as a synonym for pale ale.
Ashby’s Australian Pale Ale was made by the Quaker-founded Ashby’s brewery in Staines, Middlesex, a few miles up the Thames from London. A later advertisement, from the following year, showed Ashby’s had been exporting it to “the Australian colonies” since 1829 and the beer “resembles the East India pale ale in flavour and colour, with rather more body.” The ads appeared alongside others for “Bass’s Pale Ale, as prepared for India”, “Hodgson and Abbott’s pale ale” (Hodgson’s of Bow, of course, being the first earliest brewer to export become well-known for exporting a pale ale to India), and “Allsopp’s East India pale ale, as prepared for India”. This last ad says:
The reputation which ALLSOPP’S PALE ALE has obtained in the Eastern and British colonial markets will be best shown by a reference to the price current, and the high esteem in which it is held by the faculty [that is, medical faculty] in this country …
A bit of googling found this which says amongst other things:
[SIZE=11pt]By September 5 1842, they were advertising in the Times “Ashby’s Australian Pale Ale” which the advert described as: “the most pleasant of all the different sorts of bitter beer that we have ever tasted.” A later advertisement, from the following year, declared that Ashby’s had been exporting to “the Australian colonies” since 1829 and the beer “resembles the East India pale ale in flavour and colour, with rather more body.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt](Martyn Cornell: [/SIZE][SIZE=11pt]http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/inside-the-pale/[/SIZE][SIZE=11pt])[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]They were imported to Australia by Lionel Samson – “In the 1880's Lionel Samson was the single largest importer of beers and spirits from J.Jeffrey Brewers, Charles Ashby Brewers, Samuel Alsop Brewers, Gilbey Wines and Spirits.”[/SIZE][SIZE=11pt]http://www.lionelsamson.com.au/history/[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Zythophile references the Times of London:[/SIZE]
The very first mention of the term “bitter beer” in The Times comes on September 5 1842, in a small advertisement for “Ashby’s Australian Pale Ale”, which “is the most pleasant of all the different sorts of bitter beer that we have ever tasted,” according to a newspaper quoted in the ad. So the first time we find bitter beer being mentioned, it is as a synonym for pale ale.
Ashby’s Australian Pale Ale was made by the Quaker-founded Ashby’s brewery in Staines, Middlesex, a few miles up the Thames from London. A later advertisement, from the following year, showed Ashby’s had been exporting it to “the Australian colonies” since 1829 and the beer “resembles the East India pale ale in flavour and colour, with rather more body.” The ads appeared alongside others for “Bass’s Pale Ale, as prepared for India”, “Hodgson and Abbott’s pale ale” (Hodgson’s of Bow, of course, being the first earliest brewer to export become well-known for exporting a pale ale to India), and “Allsopp’s East India pale ale, as prepared for India”. This last ad says:
The reputation which ALLSOPP’S PALE ALE has obtained in the Eastern and British colonial markets will be best shown by a reference to the price current, and the high esteem in which it is held by the faculty [that is, medical faculty] in this country …
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