User:Huntleyian/Coronation ale

On 2nd June 1953, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place, and the whole country joined in merriment.There were 135 known coronation brews or special edition ales created in 1953, mostly strong ales, barley wines, sweet stouts and pale ales. Therefore, about one in four brewers made a Coronation brew – very jingoistic of them. There were approximately 550 breweries operating in the UK then, which is, of course, fewer than today (though most of today's are, on average, far smaller than 1953's breweries, and far newer.) Breweries brewing up a treat for Her Majesty in 1953 included Banks’s, Barclay Perkins, Benskins, Cobbold (Ipswich), Hall & Woodhouse, Harveys, John Smith’s, Mitchell & Butler, Taylor Walker, Tollemache and Truman’s... several of whom will be brewing a commemorative beer 60 years on to mark her Diamond Jubilee.

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