Hi this is my first post so I hope I do it right. I am after a recipe for Kent Old sometimes known as Tooth's Old, refered to as Brown in NSW. Hopefully someone can supply a recipe for this brew as it isn't supplied in Vic
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Bear
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You could try an Amber Ale but use dark malt to darken it up.
If I remember Tooths was a very sweet beer, unlike Tooheys which is dark and malty.
So try say Morgans Amber Ale, 1kg of Dark Malt, 500gm dextrose and definately no hops or it will be too bitter. Use Safale yeast.
If I remember Tooths was a very sweet beer, unlike Tooheys which is dark and malty.
So try say Morgans Amber Ale, 1kg of Dark Malt, 500gm dextrose and definately no hops or it will be too bitter. Use Safale yeast.
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Is this the Tooths Old Kent Ale distributed in the NSW Riverina in the 1960's +/-, together with one or two Sydney pubs?
A pale ale, overdosed with POR hops, and designed (rumour had it) to combat CUB products available in southern Riverina townships?
This beer was brewed at Tooths Kent Brewery in the Sydney suburb of Broadway. Don't know where the "Old" came from, althought there is the occasional reference to the Old Kent Brewery. But the name "Old Kent Ale" certainly caused confusion for the occasional Hunter Valley visitor to the Riverina. This was certainly no "Old ale"!
Bit of a mystery why this beer was brewed in an era when virtually all hotels were "tied houses", and when the packaged beer market was of little importance.
Perhaps it was an early marketing experiment in anticipation of changes looming on the horizon. Whatever the reasoning, the product was a much inferior product compared to its Victorian rival which, from memory, was Carlton Draught.
A pale ale, overdosed with POR hops, and designed (rumour had it) to combat CUB products available in southern Riverina townships?
This beer was brewed at Tooths Kent Brewery in the Sydney suburb of Broadway. Don't know where the "Old" came from, althought there is the occasional reference to the Old Kent Brewery. But the name "Old Kent Ale" certainly caused confusion for the occasional Hunter Valley visitor to the Riverina. This was certainly no "Old ale"!
Bit of a mystery why this beer was brewed in an era when virtually all hotels were "tied houses", and when the packaged beer market was of little importance.
Perhaps it was an early marketing experiment in anticipation of changes looming on the horizon. Whatever the reasoning, the product was a much inferior product compared to its Victorian rival which, from memory, was Carlton Draught.
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