1930-01-08 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1930.

HELP YOURSELF TO MENISH, OLD BOY

AND BE PREPARED FOR A TRULY WONDERFUL DRINK?

Note the different flavour of McNISH- it signifles BETTER QUALITY

MCNISH'S

SPECIAL

SCOTCH WHISKY

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE ANCIENT ART OFsociated companies consists of "HAND THAT SIGNS

BREWING

BRISTOL'S BEER TRADE: SOME INTERESTING FACTS

SAXON MEAD

Lockley and Son, Bowle and Bris tow, Limited, M. B. Reynolds (of the Imperial Brewery, Bedminster), D. Skyes and Co., Limited, the Oak hill Brewery Company, Limited, and Dunlop, Mackie, and Co., Limited. The company's productions have a great vogue around a wide district,

THE CHEQUES"

OXFORD UNDERGRADUATES AND TOWNSPEOPLE

PLEA FOR TOLERANCE

The art of making hear is a very and they have "tled" or control of An Oxford undergraduate, sum- ancient one, "for it is an anthen-between 400 and 500 licensed moned for the part he played In ticated fact that so long ago as houses, most of which are situated Guy Fawkes Day disorders, told 3,000 B.C. the Egyptians were mak-in and around Bristol and district the magistrates that he was try

Monmouthshire, ing an intoxicating liquor from and

All the ing to dodge the "beastly townees." barley or other grain. While cider houses are let to tenants, and none This led to much unfavourable and mend were the chief drinks of jare under managership-Indeed, comment among townspeople, and our Saxon forefathers, beer was the latter system is not encouraged reference to the subject was mado. manufactured by them by a primi by the local licensing benches.

In the Isis, an undergraduate

tive process. With the còming of In the same suburb of Bristol in weekly. the Normans, the consumption of which the Imperiak Tobacco Com

"It is becoming customary In beer increased, and some of the pany have their headquarters is the many quarters" states the Isis, best was made in the monasteries. Ashton Gate Brewery Company, ato condamn the University out of The well-known West Country his progressive concern which was hand and to extol the citizens by. torian William of Malmesbury has established in 1865 and “has now

As Economic Factor "Putting aside. for the moment other considerations, it is surely obvious that the presence of some 5,000 people in a town, many of whom are rich and practically none of whom are actually poor, is an economic factor of consider able value. They may not be en- titled to respect, but they are certainly entitled to all the toler- ance that patience can supply,

put it on record that in the reign 215 Icensed houses under its con contrast as the very salt of the

earth, of Henry II. the English monastrol. The premises are well adapt-

We do not deny that terles had attalaed fame on the ed for brewing, and the ales and many of them are worthy and de- Continent for the fine quality of atouts of the company have won lightful people, but it is perhaps their ales.

prizes and diplomas at the Brewers unreasonabla that they should It can be said without fear of Exhibition. The company owns two show such willingness to turn and contradiction that as early as the mait-houses,, where a large proporrend the hand which, if it does: sixteenth century. Bristol ́had at- tion of the malt used is made. not actually feed them, at any tained an important position in the A fourth browery which plays an rate signs frequent and substan- Industry. The introduction of hops important part in the local industry tlal cheques to be paid Into their gave a great Impetus to the trade, la that of W. J. Rogers, Limited, accounts, and Bristol brewers were making of Jacob Street, which was found- use of hops in the reign of Henry ed in 1845. Its extensions include VII., a practice which was not re-the alta of the old Bonedictine garded favourably by the municipal monastery and priory, and it has authorities. Parliament was peti- an extensive trade not only in the tloned against the use of hops as West of England but in South being "a wicked weed that would Wales. spoil the best. of drink and endan- Bristol' can claim to be the dis- ger the people" and the Bristol tributive centre of a large and city fathers in 1505 forbade the growing cider trade, and it cannot putting of hops into ale, except in be gainsald that "the wine of the the months of June, July, and country" is once more coming into | August,`on pain of`a fine of 108. its own, thanks to the Improved "Relations between the Univer One may smile to-day at the ac-method of manufacture and the sity and the Municipality are not tion of the municipal authorities aronter publicity given to it. In really hard to maintain and, if of that distant time, when they ap- Gloucestershire and Somerset cider left alone, they will doubtless con- pointed an "aleconner," whose duty makers are numerous, and now that tinue amicable. It is only when it was to visit the premises of every some brewery companies have taken violent and aggressive attempts to brewer in the city to taste the ale, over this branch of the trade for improve them are undertaken that and if he found it unwholesome to morly it was left to the licence trouble arises, and the commer- forbid its sale. History does not holder to buy from whom he pleas- cial population would do well to tell how often he had to perform ed-there is a greater uniformity remember that commonsense is s this no doubt congenial task, but in the beverage offered to the more paying policy than either he and his assistant were paid the public. It is somewhat carious sentimentality or execration."

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Bristol in 1524, and it is recorded in an botel in Bristol or an inn in SIR HUGH CLIFFORD In the city archives that in that many of the villages than it is to year, soon after Michaelmas, the procure Devonshire cider, which Mayor presided over a meeting of has successfully Invaded these brawers held at the Council House, places.

at which the price of malt was de- termined, every brewer who falled to observe it being mulcted in a fine of 40s.

"Ale Housen"

For the improved. cider which

the public in the West of England can now secure much credit is dus

Advised A Complete Rest

London, Dec. 27.

Sir Hugh Clifford has been ad-

Drive & Trusty TRIUMPH"

to the work carrfed on at the vised by his doctors, to take a National Fruit and Cider Institute, complete rest and he has, accord- Coming to a later date-1742-we now part of Bristol University, at ingly, left London. No letters have evidence of the growth of the Long Ashton, Just cutside the city. will be forwarded. industry in the fact that there were Here, under the director. (Professor Sir Hugh's friends in London in Bristol, with its comparatively. T. P. Barker) and his staff, much had noticed the desirability of amall population, no fewer than important work has been carried this step. Singapore Free Fress. 384 ale-houses, in addition to 28 out, and the Institute is continual- Inns and various shops licensed to ly helping the farmer in growing sell liquor.

Connected with the the best cider apples and generally history of brewing in the city the proving his orchards. Cider- name George occupies a command-makers also owe much to the re- ing place. On January 5, 1738, the search work which is carried on first step was taken in establishing there, and the annual cider-tasting what is now the Bristol Brewery day, when prizes won in, competi

tion are distributed, brings together (Georges and Co., Limited) by Philip George, the eldest son of hundreds interested in the industry William George, who owned a dis from the surrounding counties at tillery in Baldwin Street and had well as from Monmouthshire and been a freeman of the city from Herefordshire. Here the visitors 1789. He was authorized to pur are able to learn much, the samples chaee from a Mr. Grimea, at a sum including not only ciders made not exceeding £2,400, a brew-house from a single variety like the and malthouse in Tucker Street in Kingston Black,, but those made the parish of St. Thomas, and to from various blends. The com- negotiate for the purchase of a mercial possibilities of cider are warehouse and cooperage adjoin- being more and more widely recog ing. From here barrels of the nized, and the attractive way in famous Bristol porter wore shipped which it is now sold undoubtedly to many places, including Cork, adds to its popularity as a summer Waterford (with which Bristol had beverage,

intimate commercial dealings), and

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of the Georges business with that

of the Ricketts, in 1816, this firm

WEEK'S DISEASES

During the week ended January

has progressed steadily, building up the following cases of notidable

ja modern brewery around the pro and non-notifiable dlauases were

mises in Bath Street, which occupy notified to the Medical Officer of an advantageous position: an the Health: banks of the Avon, fear Bristöl Bridge.

Typhoid fever The present company was incor Smallpox perated in 1888, just a century after Diphtheria the foundation of the Arm of Influenza Georges and Co. Bince then the Malaria company has increased its activi® Tuberculosis ties and acquired many brewingOn-Ja concerns, including the Bedminster. Brewery of James and Pierce, R. W Miller and Co., the Lodway Brewery

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