200 Years of history
Daniel Thwaites is celebrating its 200th anniversary but as Dominic Roskrow reports, the company's keener to look forward than to look back.
After 200 years of successfully making and selling beer Daniel Thwaites must have a pretty good idea as to what does and doesn’t make a great beer. But everyone likes a pick-me-up from time to time, so even after two centuries the following review from a local paper of the brewery’s celebratory Double Century brew will have made highly satisfying reading.
Beside a top score five stars for presentation, for aroma, for taste and for aftertaste the critic wrote: “The beer’s good too. There is a malty perfume to the aroma, though the taste balances this beautifully with the significant bitterness generated by the double hopping process, and there’s a surge of dried fruit to it as it heads for the throat.
“Hints of yeasty marmite even creep in to a long and warming aftertaste. I may be wrong, but I suspect Thwaites Double Century is the first ever beer to get straight fives in this column. I’m sure Daniel would be quietly delighted.” Certainly the brewery’s staff are. For what made this review even more special was the fact that the local paper was not local to Blackburn where Thwaites is based, but to Leeds, across the border in white rose country. Evidence if ever there were any needed that Thwaites is moving forward in to the future.
The success of a Lancashire beer with drinkers in Yorkshire shouldn’t be under-estimated.
Thwaites is Blackburn through and through. Its sponsorships start at the grass roots of the town and stretch up to Lancashire’s county cricket team. Its b.....
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By Sally Toms
Section : Brewery Focus
Page number : 16
