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Arkell’s to Launch Remembrance Beer to Celebrate WW1 Centenary

As part of the WW1 100th anniversary this year, Wiltshire-based Arkell’s Brewery is brewing a brand new commemorative beer for the Royal British Legion.

The beer will be called 'Old Contemptible' and will use an old recipe using British ingredients. The brewery is donating £10 per cask sold to the poppy appeal.

Brewery chairman, James Arkell, said: “To mark this important centenary we have brewed a Mild ale, a style of beer that would have been drunk by my grandfather and the soldiers in 1914. A mild is one of England’s most traditional beers.”

Head brewer Alex Arkell, added: “I have used only English ingredients with a black colour and warm roasted and sweet tones coming from the chocolate malt with a light hop aroma to compliment it. At 4.0% this is considered strong for a mild, however having looked through our records and done some research we noticed that before WWI our mild was stronger.

Then the government wanted people to drink less because of their work in the munitions factories so they forced breweries to reduce the alcohol. Hence mild became known as a weaker pint. But we thought we would brew the original version.”

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