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yeast which was present either in the pitching yeast or in the wooden equipment. Because of the time required for the aging process, some investors would buy mild ale from brewers, age it into old ale, and sell it at the higher price. Eventually, brewers began to keep some beer behind at the brewery,
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age it themselves and sell it to the pubs. In some cases old ale was a blend of young and old. The "stock ale" was the brewery's very aged ale and was used to inject an "old" quality, and perhaps acidity to the blend.
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Another historic version was so-called "majority ale", a strong ale brewed on or around the birth of a child, and intended to be drunk on the child's twenty-first birthday.
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The boundary between old ale and mild is blurry, simply because, historically, old ale was mild ale, but aged.
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A number of breweries, particularly in Sussex, produce a weaker style of old ale with some resemblance to a
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old ale for bottling. Some of these can mature for several years after bottling, and may or may not be
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A winter warmer is a dark, malty-sweet strong ale that is brewed in the winter months. The average
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yeast were popular in 19th-century Britain. The style is now associated more with
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is a type of winter warmer, similarly strong in alcohol and usually spiced.
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Some old ales blended older vintages with fresh beer in vats, on the
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The "October" keeping ales are thought to have formed the basis for
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Grand Cru, although there is one surviving British example,
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In London especially, Burton was a synonym for old ale.
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system. Burton Ale brewed by the Ballantine brewery (
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Index


strong ale
ABV
Barley wine
mild ales
Brettanomyces
alcohol by volume
Christmas beer
Mac's Brewery
Hertford
Bootwarmer
Stronghart

Thomas Hardy's Ale
strong
bottle-conditioned
India pale ales
British East India Company
solera
Newark, New Jersey
Greene King
The Bruery's
Sour old ales
Brettanomyces
Belgian brewing
Oud bruin
Rodenbach
Gales
mild ale
King and Barnes

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