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Burton Bridge Artificial Sunlight Burton Bridge Brewery
Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Beer style: Blonde Ale / Golden Ale
Ref: ratebeer.com May2024
Common descriptors are Gold Medal Ales are produced monthly in recognition of some of the ’greats’ of history.
This month’s story :-
On the 19th September 1879, Blackpool bathed its Promenade in artificial sunlight, provided by eight dynamo electric powered Siemans arc lamps.
This was the first Blackpool Illumination, plus probably the first electric street lighting scheme in the World, and that was fifteen years before the Tower opened.
Colour: Pale Straw
Nose: Aromatic & hoppy
Taste: Clean refreshing
Hops: Northdown & Goldings | 