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on the death of his father, Allsopps lurched from crisis to crisis. A lack of tied houses, in addition to the ambitious 1897 introduction of a lager plant, which did not meet sales expectations, proved to be a major financial burden. With the difficult trading conditions for beer at the beginning of
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Allsopp & Sons Limited. There were scuffles at the doors of the bank in the City as potential investors fought for copies of the prospectus, but within three years, these investors were demanding their money back as the returns were much lower than predicted. Under
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Allsopp's origins go back to the 1740s, when
Benjamin Wilson, an innkeeper-brewer of Burton, brewed beer for his own premises and sold some to other innkeepers. Over the next 60 years, Wilson and his son and successor, also called Benjamin, cautiously built up the business and became the town's
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Allsopp trademark. In their 2018 Manifesto, James Watt stated that they were working with beer historian Martyn Cornell to recreate the original century recipe. This may have influenced AbInBev bringing back Bass Pale in the UK as the original IPA.
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Allsopp, a direct descendant of Samuel Allsopp, has consolidated the scattered trademarks and found possibly the only remaining ledger containing the authentic recipes. The revived company commenced test brewing in 2020, staying as close as possible to the original recipes.
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Allsopp's tied house estate, and the business continued trading. In 1921, Calder transferred the idle lager plant to Alloa, where it later produced the forerunner brands of
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