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Beer in the British Library

Post author By Boak & Bailey
Post date 29th August 2013
1 Comment on Beer in the British Library

Drawing of the Sign of the Rose Inn, Fenchurch Street, 1730.

Advertisement for Waltham Brothers Brewery, 1866.

Advertisement for Worthing & Co. beers, 1880.

Flyer complaining about the increasing price of beer, 1881.

Advertisement for Barrett & Elers beer bottles, 1882.

Advertisement for a machine for grinding finings, 1884.

Whitbread Chiswell Street Brewery, 1792.

Advertisement for Whitbread bottled beer, 1888.

Advertisement for T. Foster & Co. beers, 1889.

Leaflet advertising the Austro-Bavarian Lager Brewery, London.

The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century images relating to beer and brewing in the gallery above are from the British Library online gallery.

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One reply on “Beer in the British Library”

Bah! “Brewer’s Machine” my eye! The only true way to prepare isinglass is an urchin with a whisk.

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