Honesty Brewing

author: Jim Lawrie
published: 2009
pages: 124; b & w illus.
size: 15 x 23cm
language: English
brewery: John Young & others
product ref: 2000


£10.00

"A History of the Breweries, Maltings and Distilleries of Musselburgh and Fisherrow" is this book's sub-title.
The author relates the history of brewing in Musselburgh and district through the centuries spread over four chapters, starting in 1704 when the first public brewery was established, and ending in 1971 when Whitbread wound up John Young's Ladywell Brewery. This fascinating little book brings in the various local brewing families,politics and temperance, the pubs acquired, brewery plans, photos and adverts and associated industries of malting and distilling. Includes detailed chapter references and list of brewers, coopers, distillers and malsters of the district.

 

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