Holdens Brewery Wind Blower

Wind Blower

 

Holdens Brewery in Dudley, West Midlands, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Golden / Blonde Ale Regular Out of Production
Score
6.49
ABV: 4.3% IBU: - Ticks: 1
Progress hops and Optic Malt give this corn dolly yellow beer a soft and pleasant fragrance with underlying light cereal notes, which lead to a clean and crisp dry finish. Guaranteed to put the wind up your sails!
In the smaller iron bashing factories of the Black Country manual labour and not steam engines were employed to drive the machines by which the forges were supplied with blast (hot air).

Invariably viewed as work for the insane, infirm or children, this was one of the most menial and pitiful tasks. Often the Wind Blower would be responsible for supplying blast to up to six forges. Throughout a twelve hour shift they would not have a single break, perpetually and relentlessly having to turn the handle of a wheel which activated bellows for each forge. The typical wage in 1895 for this soul destroying work was 1 shilling (5p) per day.
 

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5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

cask at stockbridge tap ... hazy amber ... thin creamy head ...soft fruit hop nose ... dull musty woody hop ... not bad just a little blah

Tried from Cask on 27 May 2010 at 08:43