A sturdy dark ale. Very little carbonation, but plenty of body and character. Deep malty flavour packed with sweetness and tobacco and assorted fruits - ripe bananas, prunes, figs, and chocolate. Really well rounded. Very robust. A true beauty.
It is for beers like this that I buy vintage ales. I did allow a little sediment into the beer as I was pouring, which has taken the edge slightly off the flavour (a sludgy stale bitterness now and again), but not by much. If I see this again, I will certainly buy it. Thirty nine years old and damn lovely.
The Matthew Brown brewery was founded in 1830 at Pole Street, Preston, Lancashire.
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| Matthew brown's original brewery in Preston |
It moved to the Lion Brewery in Blackburn in 1927 after it bought Nuttall's brewery. The Lion Brewery had been built in 1875, and it is the brewery itself that is being commemorated by this centenary beer
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| Brown's Lion Brewery, founded in 1875. |
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