Category: BITTER - PREMIUM / STRONG / EXTRA SPECIAL (ESB)
Morland Old Speckled Hen (Cask - 5.2%) Greene King Brewery Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
Ref: ratebeer.com May2024
Common descriptors are Cask: Regular until retired in 2006.
Ingredients: Pipkin pale malt; Crystal Malt; brewers sugar; Bittering hops: Challenger; Aroma hops: Goldings and Challenger; Morland yeast.
First brewed in 1979 by Morland Brewery to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the brewery’s MG car - the mud splattered Ol’ Speckled ’Un. Brewed since 1999 by Greene King following the take-over. Brewing discontinued in Aug 2006. Replaced by 4.5% Old Speckled Hen. |