Tetley's Brewery
Tetley's Brewery was a brewery in the Hunslet district of Leeds .
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history
It was founded in 1822 by Joshua Tetley (1788-1859). One of his relatives, William Tetley, was identified as a maltster in Armley as early as the 1740s . In 1839 Joshua Tetley's son Francis William became a partner in the company.
By 1860 Tetley's was the largest brewery in Northern England. In the 19th century it mostly produced Mild (a malt-accentuated, mildly hopped young beer with a low original gravity ), and increasingly also Pale Ale (a top-fermented beer made from light malt). In 1875, 171,500 barrels of beer were brewed. From 1890 the brewery bought pubs . While the first of these, Duke William , was demolished in 2002, the second, The Fleece in Farsley, now part of Pudsey , is still there.
In 1931 a new building was built for the company's headquarters in the Art Deco style. In 1954, the Gilmore Brewery in Sheffield was taken over along with the 500 affiliated pubs.
In 1960, the nearby Melbourne Brewery and its 345 affiliated pubs were taken over, making Tetley's the largest brewery in Leeds with more than 1,000 affiliated pubs in Yorkshire and 2000 in other parts of the country. In 1961 Tetley's merged with Ind Coope, Burton-upon-Trent and Ansells, Birmingham to form Allied Breweries , then the largest conglomerate of breweries in the world. Tetley's employed about 1,000 people in the 1960s. A new brewery was built in 1964 , and 1 million kegs of beer were produced annually in the 1970s. In 1978, Allied Breweries and J. Lyons merged to form Allied Lyons, the largest producer of cask ale in the 1980s . In 1998 Tetley's was taken over by the Carlsberg Group.
The use of the logo introduced in 1920 , which shows a fox hunter in traditional riding clothing, was abandoned in 2000 due to increasing protests against this hunting practice and only reintroduced in 2010.
In 2008, the closure of the Leeds brewery was announced as it was smaller and outdated compared to the one in Northampton. The brewery in Leeds was closed in 2011 with the loss of 179 jobs and demolished in 2012. Tetley's brand beer is now made in Wolverhampton , Tadcaster and Hartlepool . The old main building was reopened in 2013 as an educational and art facility.
The brewery
The brewery was located on the south bank of the River Aire in the north of the Hunslet district. The expansion of production meant that several smaller streets were built over and disappeared from the cityscape. Slate fermentation vats were initially used, which were later replaced by vessels made of stainless steel. The last stone containers from the 1880s were removed in 2008.
Today's brands
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- Tetley's Smoothflow (3.6 Vol .-%) - cans with floating widget for creamy foam
- Tetley's Original (3.6 Vol .-%) - without widget
- Tetley's Mild (3.2% by volume) - light and dark
- Tetley's Cask (3.7 vol%) - brewed in Wolverhampton
- Tetley's Imperial (4.3 Vol .-%) - originally sold mainly in Teesside , since 2002 across the country
Sponsorship
Since the 1971/1972 season, Tetley's was one of the sponsors of the Rugby League and supported Leeds RLFC and its successor Leeds Rhinos until 2005, as well as the stadium of the Dewsbury Rams.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b R. G. Wilson, 'Tetley, Joshua (1778-1859)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, October 2007
- ^ Ron Pattinson: Tetley Pale Ales 1868 . Retrieved July 21, 2015.
- ↑ Chris Arnot: Britain's Lost Breweries . Aurum Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-78131-002-1 , p. 137.
- ↑ Tetley: A gamble did built an empire , Yorkshire Evening Post, November 6, 2008
- ^ Leeds fury over Tetley's Huntsman logo , Yorkshire Evening Post, April 6, 2010
- ^ Andrew Baker: 100 years of rugby league: From the great divide to the Super era . In: Independent, The , independent.co.uk, August 20, 1995.