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Morland Old Speckled Hen (Bottle and can)

Greene King Brewery
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
Beer style: Bitter - Premium / Strong / Extra Special (ESB)
Ref: ratebeer.com Apr2024

Common descriptors are
Bottle and can: Filtered. Also available as "Smooth" from nitro keg. Ingredients: Pipkin pale malt; Crystal Malt; brewers sugar; Bittering hops: Challenger; Aroma hops: Goldings and Challenger; Morland yeast. Previously 5.2% Was first brewed as a cask only beer in 1979 by Morland Brewery to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the MG car factory in Abingdon. The name comes from the MG factory’s works car - the gold speckled MG Featherweight Fabric Saloon, affectionately known as the Ol’ Speckl’d ’Un. Brewed since 1999 by Greene King following the take-over of Morlands, using the same yeast. Bottled Old Speckled Hen has been sterile filtered in the "Old Speckled Hen Hall" bottling facility since May 2006.