GREENALL`S ( St HELENS ) BEERS 1885 - 1886

How Do All , 

Thanks to the good folks at Cambridgeshire Archives ( Huntingdon ) and the team in the reprographics department , I`m very happy to be able to bring you this table of beers from a VERY well known name in Lancashire brewing history , that  of Greenall .

Label Photo C Peter Dickinson 

The source of this discovery ? ; A Pupil Brewer`s Notebook from the 1880`s , those of           " A . R Lowe , Pupil of F C Harvey Esq , The Brewery , St Helens " which ,                   forms part of the Lowe ,Son & Cobbold collection @ KHAC 2 / 2531 / 1 ,

There are two other Brewing Books listed in that collection , another brewing journal inscibed " A R Lowe " 1889 - 1891 @ KHAC 2 / 2531 / 2 and one , presumably from the company`s own brewery @ KHAC 2 2531 / 3 Brewing Journal 1894 - 1904 

                                     Huntingdon Library and Archives 

                                                    Princes Street 

                                                     Huntingdon

                                                       PE29 3PA

Main Archives Web Linky : 

       https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/libraries-leisure-culture/archives

Drawing of the brewery from The Brewery History Society website 

 The brewery in St Helens was founded in 1762 by Thomas Greenall , and for the next 20 years was the epicentre of the family`s brewing interests . The brewery at St Helens was to lead an odd , Quasi independent life as part of the Greenall - Whitley Brewing interests until the mid 1930`s when the remaining privately held shares in the St Helens firm were bought by the Wilderspool based Greenall`s concern .                                                             

Sadly the Hall St brewery founded by Thomas Greenall in 1762 brewed it`s last drop of beer in the 1970`s ( Cited as being April 1975 from Brewery History Society data ) .

T & G Greenall 

The Brewery

Hall St

St Helens 

Lancashire 

            

     A Sample Range of Beers , as included in KHAC 2 / 2531 / 1                                                 ( 1885 - 1886 ) 

 Quality      Gyle No    DATE                     O . GRAV   R . GRAV   P . GRAV   I B U    A B V

     X X           2            Friday  02/10/1885  1.042.75     1 . 009          1 . 006       34      6 . 5 %

    X X X         7            Thurs   08/10/1885    1.059.75    1.011           1.008          30     5 . 5 %

PORTER        95          Friday   22/01/1886    1.061         1.011.75      1.008.5       28    6 . 3 %

     P    ( A )       1          Thurs    01/10/1885    1.066         1.016.25       1.013         46    6 . 5 %

           ( B )                                                      1.059.75     1.016            1.013        46    5 . 8 %

   S  .  B           18         Weds     02/10/1885    1.080         1.015            1.012        54         8    %

(Stock) S      22         Mond     26/10/1885   1.080.25    1.015            1.012        50      8 . 2  %

    S  S             11         Thurs      18/10/1885   1.104         1.019.5         1.012        60      9 . 7 %

               

CheersAll , I hope that you find the table of interest ; If you`d like me to feature your area ;

 I`d love to see historic brewing records from more places around the UK and worldwide ,

Leave me a comment below and I`ll reply .

Edd ,

Lancashire 

November 2021  

Label Photo C Peter Dickinson