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[mariobeer]

Tennent’s - Beer

#tennents #wellpark brewery #beer

[mathew-rooney-photography]

Day 326 of 365 Photo Challenge. Tennents (Wellpark) Brewery is a brewery in Duke Street in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland.  It was founded in 1740 on the bank of the Molendinar Burn by Hugh and Robert Tennent. It is owned by C&C Group plc, which purchased the Tennent Caledonian Breweries subsidiary in late August 2009 from Belgian brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev (formerly known as InBev). The company produces Tennent's Lager, Scotland's market leading brand of pale lager since it was first produced at the Wellpark Brewery in 1885.  Wellpark Brewery was originally known as the Drygate Brewery. It was founded as H & R Tennent in 1740 at Drygate Bridge, near Glasgow Cathedral, by Hugh and Robert Tennent, although brewing had taken place at the same site on the banks of the Molendinar Burn by their ancestor, Robert Tennent, since 1556, making it the oldest continuous commercial concern in Glasgow. Hugh Tennent's sons, John and Robert, continued the family business, trading as J & R Tennent from 1769. The business expanded in the 1790s when the Tennent family purchased the neighbouring brewery of William McLehose, and renamed the 5-acre (20,000 m2) site Wellpark Brewery. The firm originally brewed stout and strong export ales. By the mid-19th century J&R Tennent was the world's largest bottled beer exporter. Robert Tennent died in 1826 and John Tennent in 1827. Hugh Tennent (the eldest son of Robert) then assumed control of the business. Hugh Tennent retired in 1855 with his fifth son, Charles Tennent, taking over, but he died in 1864, some months before his father. The brewery was subsequently operated by trustees on behalf of Charles Tennent’s sons, Archibald and Hugh. In 1884 Hugh Tennent took control of the company and first brewed Tennent's lager in 1885. He later built a new lager brewery on the Wellpark site, which was begun in 1889 and completed in 1891. J&R Tennent produced the first draught lager in 1924, Continued on Mathew Rooney Photography Facebook page. #glasgow #scotland #peoplemakeglasgow #visitglasgow #photooftheday #glasgow2019 #photography #365daychallenge #Tennents #Tennentsbrewery #wellpark #wellparkbrewery #brewery #drygatebrewery (at Tennent Caledonian Breweries) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5LvwjKBeOe/?igshid=oq7yro3suyx8

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[outlandvoyage]

Tennent Bier ads starring Sam Heughan. Sam did these campaigns in 2010 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Wellpark Brewery in Glasgow founded by Hugh Tennent. Sam got the Golden Can Award from the Brewery for his contributions to Scottish culture and for the fact that these ads got several awards. His mural is on the walls of Tennents Wellpark Brewery in Glasgow. Glasgow has a lot of interesting mural art, and the one of Sam Heughan as Tennent was created by Sam Bates (Smug One).

#Tennent Brewery #samheughan #Sam Heughan #Outlander

[the-busy-ghost]

So, looking up something for work earlier, I came across the (unreferenced) claim on the wikipedia page for Wellpark Brewery that, while Tennents was officially established in 1740, the founders’ ancestor Robert Tennent had been brewing by the Molendinar burn since 1556. 

Which for some reason I find greatly amusing since it would mean that, even though their (in)famous lager wasn’t produced until the 1880s, technically Glaswegians alive during the time of John Knox and Mary of Guise and Archbishops Hamilton+Gordon could have been drinking some form of ‘Tennents’

#Scotland #Glasgow #The lager is not my thing personally but then no lager is and I'd only drink Tennents if it was free #But still I liked this #Brings us closer to our ancestors in a round about way #The things you find out indirectly working for the guinness #Thoughts on the Thistle

[beerandpresentdanger]

Great Scots

Everyone in Edinburgh looks like a solicitor.

Something about the serious grey-black stone of the buildings, the weight of the masonry or the angle of the streets -  whatever it is, it seems to cast everyone in a suit and tie, smart glasses, a briefcase stuffed with case files and legal briefs.

It can’t be true, of course. Edinburgh is a bustling city, full of bus drivers, footballers, street sweepers and accountants - some solicitors, sure, but not nothing but solicitors. The solicitor thing is a mirage, a sense impression, a residual feeling that arises from the seriousness of the city - a city of statues and statutes, museums and monuments, colleges and kirkyards. There’s an elegance to Edinburgh, a certain refinement. Maybe that’s only shown off to tourists like me - Trainspotting would suggest that it’s not all Georgian architecture and Harry Potter tours - but there seems to a be a dignified streak that runs through the capital, as wide as the Royal Mile.

The Stockbridge Tavern

There are still pubs though. Some might have distilled the elegance of the city they inhabit, but lots are just pubs, a place beyond elegance, where what matters is proper patter - and beer of course. I had a couple of days in the city to try and explore some of city’s beer. For most of it I was accompanied by an energetic toddler, which did prove to be something of a spoiler. The first few places I tried to visit - on a sunspolied, taps aff Friday afternoon - didn’t allow children (I’m not writing this to complain - I understand why pubs may want to be child-free) so I had to skip a few spots through my compiled list of best places to drink in town. Thankfully, a place at the top of many lists - The Hanging Bat - was happy to let me stow a pushchair in the corner, and I was glad they did. A few choice lines of local cask ales and a DEYA tap takeover of the keg lines meant this was a fine place to spend some time. It’s cosier than your average modern beer bar, with deep red sofas and lots of wood - a nod to the city’s elegance, but filled with edgier delights.

Trekking back to the hotel, arcing around the city’s central cliffside, thrusting its castle aloft like Simba atop Pride Rock, I impulsively stopped at the Innis & Gunn taproom I passed. It’s been years since I drank their “barrel-aged” ale, though there was a time, pre-craft revolution, when I loved it. At the bar, I got drawn in by the tank-fresh lager, but I should have gone old school - the lager was bland, fizzy, freezing cold. I saw four-packs alongside Tennent’s in every supermarket, and I’d choose the Tennent’s every time (and indeed, I did). Still, they had high chairs, which I appreciated.

Fierce Beer Bar

A bit later, I was able to sample some places sans toddler, which gave me a slightly deeper appreciation for Edinburgh’s pubs. I got the range too, starting in the Stockbridge Tavern, a sunlit corner pub filled with a Friday night post-work crowd, a real mix of ages and genders and beverages crowded around well scrubbed tables and a bustling bar. I’d planned to drink local, but when I saw North’s Transmission on cask, a 6.9% west coast IPA, I couldn’t resist, and I didn’t regret my lack of impulse control. It was a proper “wow” pint, with huge citrus rolled around a subtle cask haze. I almost had a second, when I spotted a Cross Borders Heavy on keg, and knew I had to oblige - it was everything I expect a heavy to be, bristling with toffee apple brittleness.

I finished the evening with a quick visit to the newly opened Fierce Beer Bar in the New Town. A third of Barrel Aged Very Big Moose - 12.5% and wearing it well - was a lovely way to round out an evening, still warm and light enough to sit out past 9pm.

And so to Glasgow. It wasn’t until the train slunk through the city’s grey and rainy edgelands and the carriages began to fill up with men in green and white shirts that I realised it was a match day (Celtic and Hearts - plus a rugby game to boot), but luckily I hadn’t been planning to hit the pubs - or sit atop a traffic light getting cans lowered down to me. As it turned out, we couldn’t have gone out if we wanted - when we tried to walk into Shilling Brewing Co, we were met with another “no kids allowed” (as an aside - is Scotland particularly adverse to letting kids in drinking establishments, or is London the outlier in letting them in?)

The Wellpark Brewery from the Necropolis

For the first evening I sampled some supermarket staples instead, with a couple of Williams Bros beers. Joker, their IPA, was bland and unfocused - perhaps it had lost a little something on a warm shelf, perhaps it never had it. Caesar Augustus, their IPL, was a more intriguing affair, with a brash, grassy nose, and a pleasing floral flavour.

The next day, after wandering the coal-smoke scented galleries of the Kelvingrove museum, I popped into Grunting Growler (again, no kids allowed, except to watch me choose something from the fridge - Tempest Mexicake, a vat of red chilli flakes, powdery chocolate and moist sponge - to take away). In the end, it was BrewDog which was happy to host the whole family, and a pint of Zombie Cake, with it’s neat nutty nose, was a nice way to break the duck.

Scotland’s favourite beer

On the last day, we walked out to St Mungo’s Cathedral and the Necropolis, that glowering townscape of tombs that overpeers the beloved Wellpark Brewery, the source of every golden drop of Tennent’s. It was hard to imagine, on a rainswept day, watching the facility contribute its own clouds to the crowded sky, that the Necropolis didn’t have some strange relationship with the brewery; that the rain water didn’t flow down through the burial mounds and terraces, through the dark, stony earth, and into the deep, unseen spring that gave Wellpark its name, and impart something particular into the water - not just the minerals and nutrients and pH level, but a distinct spirit and character - the very atoms of William Motherwell and Archibald Douglas Monteath, Walter Macfarlane and Andrew McCall, all the authors and lawyers and engineers and explorers that made Glasgow and Scotland the engine of an Empire. They don’t put this stuff on the Tennent’s marketing copy, but maybe they should.

Nightmare of Cake

Escaping down the hill we took shelter in the Drygate Brewery, an offspring of Tennent’s and Williams Bros, focussed on modern beers alongside a good menu and comfortable taproom slash restaurant. It was an impressive set-up, and the beers stood up well for the most part. Crossing the Rubicon, an IPA, was an overly sweet candied mess, but the Seven Peaks session IPA was much better, dry, and with a peach-driven Mosaic character. But the real standout was my third “cake” beer of the weekend, Nightmare of Cake, a gloopy, unctuous mess of a beer, overstuffed with marshmallow and raspberry and milk chocolate and all things nice - “Made from chemicals by sick bastards” as the menu had it, and every ridiculous element from each corner of the periodic table only made it better.

Perhaps it had some dead Scottish solicitors in it too. The quest for pastry stout novelty continues.

#Scotland #beer #craft beer #ale #hops #real ale #cask ale #review #writing #harry potter #lager #drygate #tennents #celtic #glasgow #edinburgh #travel #IPA

[androgynousgymphotographyfa-blog]

At tennants again (at Tennents Wellpark Brewery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BunzdHshUuI1xknwVcNrOoWzA6ewIl7-7DvUpY0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=147tni9xoxxtf

[allofthecaps]

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Brewery: Wellpark Brewery Brand: Tennent’s Lager Country: United Kingdom (Scotland) Condition: 1

#gold #C2: red #gold x red #Tennent's Lager #United Kingdom #Scotland #Co. 1

[mauriziomarinelli]

presso Tennents Wellpark Brewery https://www.instagram.com/p/B0balHvCMVW/?igshid=beoydjtpvqif

[sandraaaxo]

Culture day for beer that will never pass my lips again #tennents #glasgow (at Tennents Wellpark Brewery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtLelGqF-pU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pu48jo2lt0lq

#tennents #glasgow

[paperspy]

Brewing giant Tennent's promises 'greener' beer

Brewing giant Tennent’s promises ‘greener’ beer

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Image caption Green T: Tennent’s says it is tapping into its customers’ environmental concerns

The brewer of Scotland’s best-selling beer has invested £14m in improving its environmental credentials.

From next Spring, cans of Tennent’s lager – made at the Wellpark brewery in Glasgow – will be packaged in…

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[mappingmegan]

Want to learn about Scotland's number 1 selling beer? Then you'll want to head to Glasgow for a tour of Wellpark Brewery, home of Tennent’s Lager https://t.co/PNElZaOu6h #travel #NextStopGlasgow #beeroclock

Want to learn about Scotland's number 1 selling beer? Then you'll want to head to Glasgow for a tour of Wellpark Brewery, home of Tennent’s Lager https://t.co/PNElZaOu6h #travel #NextStopGlasgow #beeroclock

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[scottishdreams]

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[wineanddinosaur]

133-Year-Old Shipwreck Beer Reincarnated by New York Brewery

Last week, reports of a New York brewery teaming up with a nearby university to reincarnate a 133-year-old shipwrecked beer went viral.

Serious Brewing Company of Howes Cave, N.Y. and the State University of New York at Cobleskill (SUNY Cobleskill) announced plans to extract and analyze yeast from the beer, which was discovered off the coast of Long Island in the wreckage of the SS Oregon.

The discovery was exciting — but it turns out, it’s already happened. Saint James Brewery of Holbrook, Long Island is already working on a similar project with beer bottles from the very same shipwreck.

Saint James Brewery of Long Island plans to release SeaKing, a beer made with yeast from the SS Oregon shipwreck beers, in March.

According to Syracuse.com, Saint James Brewery owner Jamie Adams, who has been diving on the SS Oregon shipwreck for 20 years, planned to debut his own reincarnation of the 1800s-era English ale at the New York State Brewers Fest on March 9.

Adams said the brewery held off on publicly announcing the beer until it was ready. “Now, it’s ready,” he said.

Adams and Serious Brewing owner Bill Felter were able to “amicably” resolve the issue, and Serious Brewing has scrapped plans to resurrect the brew.

Felter had reportedly received the bottle from a customer who also collects artifacts from the SS Oregon. He took the bottle to SUNY Cobleskill’s biotechnology lab, where students are working to extract and analyze the yeast. Felter even took a swig. “The taste was like barleywine/vinegar/cider,” Felter said. “It was acidic. We’re just hoping some of the yeast survived.”

It did – and at the time of the shipwreck, so did 851 of the ship’s 852 passengers.

The SS Oregon departed from Liverpool, England in 1886 and was headed to New York City. It crashed into a schooner near Fire Island, AP reports.

Adams may be the first brewer to discover the SS Oregon bottles, but beer was common cargo in past centuries. In 2016, divers found a 220-year-old beer off the coast of Australia, which was recreated by James Squire Craft Brewers. In November 2018, a 150-year-old bottle of Tennent’s beer originally found in the 1970s near Melbourne was returned to its rightful home of Wellpark Brewery in Glasgow, Scotland.

And last week on land, 113-year-old beers were found under the floorboards of a former brewery in Viborg, Denmark.

Deja brew.

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[travelworldnetwork]

Tennents is just as popular in its hometown as it is internationally.

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I spent a couple of years as a student just out of earshot, but within noseshot, of Tennent's Wellpark Brewery in Glasgow's East End. It was a difficult neighbour. In those days, 15 years ago, the fumes and odours from the brewery would drift up the hill towards my squalid apartment and considering how many of those hedonistic academic days were spent hungover, it often made for a terrible start to the day.

"I think we've improved the ventilation since then," laughs my guide, Craig, on Wellpark's The Tennent's Story tour. The master beer-maker has invested more than $2 million in a new visitor centre and in-depth tour. Considering beer has been made in one form or another on this site for about 500 years, this modern incarnation feels more than a little overdue.

It starts with an interactive offering with eerie computer-generated sprites from the company's past beamed onto a screen to explain the brand's history. This includes Hugh Tennent, the visionary brewer who travelled to Bavaria and returned with the recipe for Tennent's main lager which has been used since 1885.

A mural on the outside of the Wellpark Brewery, maker of Glasgow's famous Tennent's beer. Photo: Alamy

This Glasgow brew is sold internationally more than ever before, but its popularity at home is hard to fully comprehend. Craig reminds us of the oft-quoted Scottish anomaly that we are on the only nation on Earth with an indigenous soft drink – Irn-Bru – more popular than Coca-Cola. "Thing is, if you added all the Irn-Bru and all the Smirnoff products sold in Scotland together, we still beat them," smiles our guide.

The tour includes a long explanation that while Tennent's is the Wellpark Brewery's biggest product in terms of volume, the facility is also used by brands such as Stella Artois, Carling and Beck's to brew and bottle their British products, almost all of them using the same pure Scottish water filtered from Loch Katrine. It's hard to imagine any of them are more satisfying than the delicious unpasteurised pint of Tennent's included at the end of the tour, however.

Amid the dizzying statistics we hear, perhaps the most remarkable comes from a display plaque near the entrance. I'm not overly familiar with the aerodynamics of boomerangs, but it seems pretty incredible that one would take 150 years to travel all the way from Scotland to Melbourne and back again.

Yet that, more or less, is what happened with a bottle from the Wellpark Brewery found by Australian diver Jim Anderson in a shipwreck in the 1970s. "I found out it was from Glasgow, and I contacted Tennent's to see if they were interested in the bottle, which they were, and I was delighted," said the Geelong native last year when he personally brought it to the museum.

"It took a bit of clearance to get it to Glasgow because artefacts are protected in Australia and we need special authorisation for things like this to leave the country. It's amazing to see it back, 150 years later, from where it started its journey."

That particular bottle arrived in Australia in 1868, the same year as the final convict ship from Britain, aboard The Light of the Age. After a mammoth journey, it ran aground just short of Melbourne, its final destination. Thankfully, no one died and the bottle survived well enough that Tennent's made Shipwreck Stout, a commemorative brew following the old recipe as closely as possible.

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And how did the ship meet its demise? Appropriately, the official reason is that the captain was drunk.

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The Tennent's Story tour is on every day at Wellpark Brewery and includes a pint of its unpasteurised lager. Adult, £12.50; children £9 (12- to 18-year olds must be accompanied by an adult) . See tennentstours.com.

Jamie Lafferty was a guest of Tennent's.

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[scottishfoodreview]

The new and improved Tennent's Story at Wellpark Brewery.

Generally when you're invited to a brewery, of course you're going to say yes. When it's the Wellpark brewery and they are launching their new and improved visitor centre you definitely say yes.  Wellpark is a piece of Strathclyde history, up there with the John Brown's yard or Ravenscraig.

When you have 500 odd years of brewing experience to choose from the choice of what to put in a visitor centre is pretty extensive, especially when one of the products is the unmistakable indomitable Tennent's Lager. First brewed at Wellpark in 1885 this “madman's dream” has such a characterful history you can see why it was put front and centre.

The Tennent's Story is full of interesting exhibits which will resonate with many. See which of the retro beer cans you remember drinki… ummm your mum or dad drinking from over the years, or watch as decades worth of old Tennent's TV adverts show on the big screen, some more politically correct than others! Then there's the fun to be had at the table football or the 8 bit arcade game, with the tin of beer ceiling above.

You can book on to a tour of the brewery as well if you want to, pick up some quality merchandise and enjoy a pint direct from the tank. There's loads to see and do in this beer themed attraction so head to their website http://www.tennentstours.com for more details.

#beer #Glasgow

[silasvalverde]

Tennent's Scotch Ale Breja da @tennents.lager Estilo: Scotch Ale Teor alcoólico: 9,0% Temperatura ideal de consumo: entre 12 e 14 ºC A Tennent's Scotch Ale é complexa, oferecendo um prazeroso sabor frutado acompanhado por sutis notas de lúpulo. Seu final é macio graças aos tons tostados de caramelo, complementando essa autêntica e encorpada Scottish Ale. O estilo Scotch Ale também é conhecido como wee heavy, expressão que é usada para traduzir a impressão que esta cerveja produz no degustador. Escocesa de mais alto teor alcoólico, fortemente maltada, com gosto de caramelo, clara e pouco amarga, apresenta carbonatação moderada e uma grande variação de cores, entre âmbar claro e marrom escuro. A carbonatação é evidente, embra produza uma espuma nem sempre persistente. O caráter maltado, geralmente doce, a torma idela para acompanhar sobremesas. A Tennent Caledonian é cervejaria mais antiga e mais bem sucedida da Escócia. Sua história começa em 1556 em Glasgow, na Escócia, quando Robert Tennent começa a produzir cervejas às margens do Molendinar Burn. Em 1740, durante a Idade Média, a fabricação de cerveja torna-se comum na área hoje conhecida como Wellpark. No entanto, os irmãos Hugh e Robert Tennent são os primeiros a estabelecer uma empresa cervejeira pública, nasce a primeira cervejaria comercial de Glasgow. Em 1790 a cervejaria adota o nome Wellpark, inspirado em um poço artesiano conhecido como Lady Well que fornece água potável a partir do Molendinar Burn. Em 1797 ocorre a primeira exportação registrada de cerveja Tennent, enfrentando o Atlântico para os escoceses expatriados que vivem nas Américas. Em 1860, pouco mais de 100 anos depois de ser fundada, a cervejaria Tennent torna-se o maior exportador de cerveja em garrafa no mundo, transportando para as Índias Ocidentais, as Américas e toda a Europa continental. #beer #cerveja #bier #cervejaartesanal#craftbeer #breja #cervejaespecial#instabeer #bebamenosbebamelhor#cervejasespeciais #birra#cervejadeverdade #cervejagelada #cerveza#beergeek #beerporn#devotosdoliquidosagrado #cervejeiro#brejas #instabreja #lupulo #beernerd#biere #chopp #cerva #beerlovers #beers#malte #cervejagourmet #microcervejaria_x (em Tennent Caledonian Breweries)

#birra #devotosdoliquidosagrado #cerva #beernerd #cervejadeverdade #cervejeiro #beers #breja #cerveza #beerporn #bier #cervejaespecial #cervejagourmet #instabreja #microcervejaria_x #malte #craftbeer #lupulo #chopp #biere #instabeer #bebamenosbebamelhor #cervejaartesanal #cervejagelada #cerveja #beerlovers #cervejasespeciais #beer #beergeek #brejas