Royal Oak (Bradley, Nr Stradishall)
Queens Arms (Great Cornard)

Coca Cola
Minster Lemonade

12p;
35p;

Queens Head Hotel (Haverhill)
The Ram (Hadleigh)

Gin/Rum/Whisky
Minatures

25p per tot.
41p.

Four Swans (Sudbury)
Eight Bells (Belchamp Walter)

Half bottles of
Gin/Rum/Whisky

£2.36.

Red Lion (Belchamp Otten)
Cherry Tree Inn (Knowl Green)

Bottles
quarter bottles of spirits

£4.63.
 £1.21

Plough Inn (Bulmer)
Cock and Blackbird (Bulmer)

Red Cow (Sudbury)
Cherry Tree (Glemsford)

Composition of water used for brewing –
high degree of organic

The Green Man (Belchamp St Paul)
Hare and Hounds (Sudbury)

purity

The Crown - Glemsford
The Pinkuah Arms (Pentlow) 39

(grains per
gallon)

Ammonia free and saline
Ammonia albuminoidal

0.0126
0.0045

Bar prices at the Foxearth Men’s Club on its closure in
1975

Oxygen absorbed in 1 hour
Oxygen absorbed in 3 hours

0.98
0.103

Nitrogen as nitrates
Nitrogen as nitrites

very slight trace
none

Abbot Ale
Shandy

16p for half pint bottle;
25p per pint;

Chlorine
Total solid residue dried at 180°

5.7
35.8

Guinness
Light Ale (Toby or Adnams)

17.5p for half pint bottle;
28p per pint or 14d for half;

Carbonic anhydride CO²
Suphuric anhydride SO³

9.13
2.50

Tolly dark or Harvest
Mackeson

28p a pint;
15p;

Lime CaO
Manganese MGo

9.91
2.44

Double Diamond
Lucozade (small)

18p;
15p;

Potash K²O
Silica

1.26

Oxides of iron and aluminium
Alkalinity before boiling as CaO

0.28
20.72

26oz lemonade
cider

15p;
13p;

Alkalinity  after  boiling  as  calcium
carbonate

4.37

 bitter lemon, tonic water,
ginger ale,

9p
Ph value
7.46

Bottle deposits - minerals
all others.

5p
3p

Summary of barrels brewed in 1908/1909 – only surviving
record of early production

 This pub did not receive a full on-licence until 1929. It was
bought off the Bull family in 1928 and owned for just under 12
months. Ward’s bored a well on the site but for reasons unknown.

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Quality

1908
Barrels

1909
Barrels

Increase
Decrease
109
110