“In 1887, the Brewers’ Journal scathingly reckoned the impact of foreign beers was confined to ‘the pressman’s world — the City, Fleet Street and the West End.’”
From ‘The Introduction of Lager in Late Victorian Britain’, Richard Wilson, in A Special Brew: Essays in Honour of Kristof Glamann, 1993.
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And yet those despised ‘foreign’ beers would sweep the country in just eighty short years…
Ha. Yes.