Original upload date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:33:39 GMT
In 1840 London was home to the biggest breweries in the world, and for well over a hundred years they were making porter, the world's first global beer phenomenon. The history of porter is vast and fa
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ntastic, and we brewed a beer to showcase how the style has evolved over the last 200 years.
Please join us on Monday, April 29 from 7-9pm (doors open at 6:30) at the Goose Island Tap Room (1800 West Fulton St.) for the bottle release of “Obadiah Poundage," our recreation of an 1840 London Porter recipe in collaboration with Beer Historian Ron Pattinson and Wimbledon Brewery in London. Ron will be flying in from Amsterdam to present on some of the amazing history of porter, and to talk about the making of this beer. Two and a half years in the making, “Obadiah Poundage” faithfully recreates porter of Victorian era London, a beer that takes us back in time to taste and explore a style of beer that changed how beer was made forever.
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Credit
Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors in a store for vats and barrels. Wood-engraving, 1847. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY
