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Beers

Originally Beer like wine was carried from a cask or barrel in stoneware or leather containers.The earliest beer bottles resemble the crude bottles used for wine.But as a lot of ales were brewed in the home and due to the high tax on glass there was little promotion for pontilled black glass beers.By 1600 secondary fermentation was discovered and it was found that in properly sealed bottles the quality of the ale improved,but at this time the best they could manage was a wired on cork.Other closures were tried but it was not untill the invention of the internal screw stopper(1872) that the problem was solved.These were in use for many years till the advent of the crown cork(patented 1892 by an American).

Hanbury and Cotchins TAUNTON.1/2 pint.

Starkey Knight & Ford BARNSTAPLE.1/2pt.

J.Butler ILFRACOMBE 1pt.

Starkey Knight & Ford TIVERTON 1/2pt,Internal screw stopper.

Redruth Brewery REDRUTH 1/2pt.

1pt Pictorial Ginger Beer.R.Stothert and Sons Atherton.

Starkey Knight and Ford 1/2 pt beer.Embossed but without coat of arms trademark.C1900-1910

Rogers Bristol 1pt Internal screw beer.Embossed trade mark of two crossed beer bottles C1910-1920.

A group of local beers excavated recently from a small local tip,Gaydons Barnstaple 1pt and 1/2pt,Dornats Barnstaple,Ridge wine merchants Bideford,Henry Day wine merchant Barnstaple and an unembossed black glass 1/2pt.All date to around 1900-1910

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