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WHEN TIMOTHY TAYLOR WON THE KEG CUP
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Timothy Taylor are primarily known as producers of draught
cask conditioned beers, known as real ale. Surprisingly however Taylors have won a first prize for a keg beer. In 1976 the company won the Brewers Guardian UK Keg Pale Ale Challenge Cup. This required the beer to be put on sale in a few of the companys pubs before the event. The only one which can be recalled by the company's management today is the Grouse Inn, Oakworth. Sir John Aked Taylor, later Lord Ingrow, explained in 1982 that: We simply put the bottled version of Landlord into kegs and sent some down for judging and it won.
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Beer bottling at Timothy Taylor in the 1970s
At Timothy Taylor in the 1970s beer for bottling in small batches
was occasionally simply double racked. This involved
allowing the sediment in a cask to settle and then running the clear beer
into another cask or container. |
Samuel Smith was initially contracted to carry out Timothy
Taylor's bottling requirements, and then McMullen's of
Hertford. Illustrations by kind permission of Timothy Taylor & Co. Ltd. |
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Just eleven years after the 175 anniversary of Joshua Tetley
purchasing William Sykes brewery for £400, Carlsberg have announced
that their Leeds brewery will close in 2011. Carlsberg acquired the Joshua Tetley & Son, The Brewery, Leeds, via a merger with Allied Breweries in 1992. Calsberg-Tetley has created, in 2004 the Tetley name was dropped. |
Tetley's first purchase was in 1954 when Duncan Gilmour & Co
Ltd; of Sheffield, with 350 licensed properties. |
Each room held 24 x 270 barrel open Yorkshire square fermentation
vessels. The first room was installed in 1961 and the second in 1964. All
of which have either been chopped up for scrap, or are in the process of
being scrapped. |
| At the same time as Joshua Tetley were in negotiations with
Melbourne Brewery talks went on with Walker Cain Ltd; to arrange a merger.
Walker Cain had a brewery at Warrington and head office in Liverpool. A deal
was completed in October 1960. Tetley Walker Ltd; was formed but the breweries
continued to be run separately. In 1961 Allied Breweries Ltd (Ansell, Birmingham, Ind Coope, of Burton & Romford, & Tetley Walker) was created, mainly to avert the possible takeover of either company. Thomas Ramsden & Son Ltd; Stone Trough Brewery, Halifax, was acquired by Tetley Walker in 1964 for nearly £5.9 million. Ramsden's owned 200 licensed properties and 16 off-licences. Tetley Walker bought Charles Rose & Co. Ltd; Malton, with 55 pubs, in 1965. Two years later Tetley Walker gained five pubs from J. W. Hemingway Ltd; York Road, Leeds. |
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