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).
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.)
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.
Hamburg restaurants and hotels compete over their beer, 1900.
Patzenhofer of Berlin advertises its wares 1896. They tried to break the UK market between the wars..
The Hotel Bristol Vienna advertises… what now? Pilsenetzer?
Pschorr — an international company by 1896.
Wicküler of Wuppertal, 1896.
We have culled these advertisements from two editions of the Hamburg American Line (aka Hapag Lloyd) guide to Europe from 1896 and 1900. The former is available through Archive.org while the latter (stinky and falling apart) is in our own collection.
(When did you last see a hotel using its beer offer as selling point?)
Ralph Thrale, who acquired the Anchor Brewery at Southwark in 1729.
Samuel Whitbread (1720-1796), who entered brewing in 1742.
A cut-out silhouette portrait of John Courage, who took over the Anchor Brewery in 1787, from a c.1970s beer mat.
Benjamin Truman, grandson of the founder of Truman’s, who expanded the brewery in the 18th century. This portrait is by Thomas Gainsborough and dates from around 1770.
Henry Boddington I, aged 33, in 1847, a year before he became a partner in the Manchester brewery he would later take over and to which he would give his name.
Michael Thomas Bass, grandson of William Bass Jr, who oversaw the brewery’s enormous growth in the 19th century.
George Simonds (1843-1929), grandson of the founder of Simonds of Reading, and brewery Chairman. He was also a sculptor and, as you can see, a keen falconer.
It’s surprisingly hard to come by portraits of brewers (or brewery owners, at least) even though we’re certain there must be lots of them knocking about in boardrooms and regional galleries. Here are a few we’ve found.
