GALLERY: Brew Britannia Deleted Scenes

The founder members of the Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood. SOURCE: John Keeble; Mrs Gore.)

Becky's Dive Bar, photographed by Grant W. Corby (we'd still like to get in touch with him) and supplied by Eric Schwartz (pictured right). — Becky’s Dive Bar, photographed by Grant W. Corby (we’d still like to get in touch with him) and supplied by Eric Schwartz (pictured right).

Label for Brahms & Liszt Pale Ale by the Selby Brewery. (SOURCE: Martin Sykes.)

The premises that would become North Bar, Leeds, before its refurbishment. (SOURCE: North Bar.)

Christian Townsley (left) and John Gyngell, founders of North Bar, c.1997. (SOURCE: North Bar.)

Martin Dickie (left) and Stefano Cossi, the 'a beery equivalent of Noel and Liam Gallagher', at Thornbridge, c.2005. (SOURCE: Simon Webster, Thornbridge.) — Martin Dickie (left) and Stefano Cossi, the ‘a beery equivalent of Noel and Liam Gallagher’, at Thornbridge, c.2005. (SOURCE: Simon Webster, Thornbridge.)

Justin Hawke. (We took this photo — it’s not very flattering, but we and he wanted to get the wooden sign in…)

Andrew Cooper (left) and Brett Ellis of the Wild Beer Company in the summer of 2013. (Our photo.)

Featured image: David Bruce outside the Flounder & Firkin, Islington, in the early 1980s. (SOURCE: David Bruce.)

These are photos we didn’t use in Brew Britannia because they were too low in resolution, too low in contrast, or, in the case of a couple we took ourselves, rotten.

We’ve also thrown in a colour version of the Brahms & Liszt beer label which appears in black-and-white in the book.

With thanks to John Keeble, Brian Schwartz, Martin Sykes, David Bruce, Christian Townsley & John Gyngell and Simon Webster.

3 replies on “GALLERY: Brew Britannia Deleted Scenes”

On a related note, are there many pictures of Mash and Air to be had? The description in the book is fantastic, but all I can find by googling is a few exterior shots and some chairs…

Not really. We’ve just come into possession of a copy of The Grist magazine from March/April 1997 (which we really could have done with before the book went to print…) which has a couple of shots but… chairs and windows, mostly. The cover is probably the best single photo we’ve seen, capturing something of the lurid colouring, the layout, and the prominence of the brew-kit.

Lovely stuff – that Mash and Air art looks *exactly* as I thought it would.

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