Courage Light Ale, 6 x 275 ml

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So it was inevitable that the mixing of beers would eventually fade out and little light ale would die a lonely death. Or has it? Can I Still Get Light Ale? So I was delighted when Bailey (of Boak & Bailey) passed on some scans of a 1986 What's Brewing article about bottled beer. One that had lots of lovely gravities included.

Because with cask beers, there's no problem. They've been documented by the Good Beer Guide since the 1970's. But only cask and bottle-conditioned beers. Which leaves all other forms of bottled beer and keg beer pretty much undocumented. Bit of a bummer for someone like me who's interested in every form of beer. At least from an academic point of view. We're continuing with another type of beer which had once been hugely popular but was rapidly going out of fashion. Just like Brown Ale. The example here wasn't, as you might expect, brewed at Courage's Horsleydown brewery by Tower Bridge. No, this one was brewed at the former Beasley brewery at Plumstead in London. Courage had bought it in 1963 and seemed to have run it as a bottled beer brewery. In addition to Courage Light Ale it also produced Brown Ale, IPA and 3 Star. Not that Courage kept it open long. Beasley's final brew was on Wednesday 3rd March 1965. Brown and mild, also known as a Boilermaker, is a half pint of draught mild bitter topped up with half a pint of bottled brown ale. Old And Bitter There are two main reasons for mixing a light ale with a bitter. First, in times gone by, lets say the 50’s and 60’s, ale on tap was not the best quality. Not that I know first hand, I am not that old, I’ve just been told this by an older generation.

Courage Directors (4.8 percent ABV in cask, keg, bottles and cans). Available in cask, bottles and cans. [10] Courage Directors was originally brewed at the Alton brewery under the name of Alton Red and was served exclusively in the Courage's Directors dining rooms. Following the suggestion of Courage's director Peter Rowe, Alton Red was renamed Directors Bitter and marketed to the general public. [10] It is described as "full bodied with a clean, bitter taste, balanced with a sweet burnt, malty and fruity notes with a distinctive dry-hop aroma and flavour". [10] It has a strong following in London and the South East, and across the UK as a whole remains in the top ten premium cask ales, and the top twenty bottled ales. [11] [12] [13] It is brewed with English Target hops, burnt Pale and Crystal malts. [11]

One last little point. For those who think every style of beer is currently brewed in the USA, who makes a Light Ale? So does light and bitter still exist? No, not in modern day pub culture, although you can ask. However we can seek it out and try it at home if we choose. And of course I will at some point, as well as light and lager, snakebite, and Thames water if I can remember the mix. The keg beers which started popping up after WW II were effectively just bulk versions of bottled beer. Rather than mess around with a mix of bottled and draught, there was now a simple draught alternative. And the practice began dying out. Amazingly, the London examples aren't the most expensive. They are the worst value, though. The average price is exactly the same as for Brown Ale. Though the average OG is 1º lower. However, a far greater degree of attenuation, leaves the ABV 0.38% higher. And a bit over 3%.Whitbread brewed something called Light Ale in the 1920's and 1930's which was in a completely different style. For one thing it was dark in colour. It was basically a watered-down version of Dark Mild, with a gravity of just 1028 and less than 3% ABV. Its origins probably lie in the low-gravity Milds produced towards the end of WW I. They never brewed huge quantities of it and, when their standard Mild's gravity dropped to around the 1030 mark at the beginning of WW II, it was discontinued. Ask for a light ale in any drinking establishment today and they would probably serve you a pale ale. Light ale was like a lighter version of pale ale, especially by today’s pale ales. So you are not going to get a light ale in any bar nowadays. Having said that, you never know there may be some die hard old school publicans that still serve it. If that is the case, they would probably serve you a light and bitter without any questions.

I am not 100% sure what the old is in this mix, but it is possibly an old ale that has matured. A young ale would be sold as a mild, where an aged ale would be sold as an old ale. So an old and bitter would be half of old ale and half of bitter. This was also known as a Mother-in-law, I am not going to say why, work it out for yourself. Mild And Bitter Wells and Youngs Buy Courage Brands - Wells & Young's Brewing Company Ltd". 25 January 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-01-25 . Retrieved 22 October 2021. Pour half a pint of a beer like pale ale into a pint glass and then top up with a stout. If you pour the stout carefully the bottom half will be the lighter ale and the top the dark stout. Guinness is used a lot for this drink. It can also be mixed as lager and stout. Brown And Mild So these are the beer mixes I can remember, but like I said there are probably more from days gone by. And of course there are many modern day beer mixes too. Final Thoughts Interestingly, Young’s also state that it is often mixed with Young’s bitter. And what does that give you, light and bitter of course.Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-09 . Retrieved 2011-05-01. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) Light ale mixed with bitter is not the only beers we use to mix, there are others too. But more of that later. What Happened To Light Ale? a b c "Courage Directors | Our Ales | Wells and Young's Brewing Company". Wellsandyoungs.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2010-06-05 . Retrieved 2011-05-07.

Much to my surprise, the Southern Light Ales work out as the best value, on average. And includes the two of the individual best value beers: Cook Golden Ale and Adnams Pale Ale. While the best value of all was Vaux Light Brown Ale. Whilst they went about their campaign for quality cask real ale, they are said to have ignored bottled beer. The poor little bottle of light ale may have suffered as a result. The thing is that beer in Britain has got better and better over the years. CAMRA deserve some of the credit for that, as well as the breweries too. By the 70s Löwenbräu was West Germany's largest beer exporter. They advertised the brew in the UK as 'The World's

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International directory of company ... - Google Books. 2008-09-22. ISBN 9781558622180 . Retrieved 2011-05-07. Young’s say it is light traditional beer and Britain’s most favoured light ale. So they are both claiming theirs to be the best, could they be the same? I don’t know, but Young’s also say very similar to Courage. It’s pale amber in color, has a complex but clean and fruity nose. However they do say that theirs is more bitter than the average light ale. most exclusive and expensive beer'. Löwenbräu had opened 29 'bierkellers' in London by 1971 and charged 35p for That is what I would like to know, but I guess like most things there is probably a combination of reasons. One could be that cask beers gradually improved so there was no reason to try and pump some life into them. A second reason may be the Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA), an organisation set up in 1971 to, well campaign for real ale.