Istanbul is where East meets West. The sun sets over the sea of Marmara, the old city is alive with the sound of the call to prayer. Smells of Byzantine delicacies and unfathomable spices fill the warm evening air from the streets of Beyoğlu below.
How many adventurers have planned their next journey sipping cocktails or a Bière Bomonti in the rooftop lounge of the Pera Palace Hotel? The birthplace of Murder On The Orient Express and our first beer, an Istanbul Pale Ale with real character.
Beer is food. Beer is the solvent of society. Beer brings together the rich, the poor and the hard working. Great things are planned, decisions made, and adventures retold. Beer is the fuel upon which industries were created, it is the mother of civilisation, but more than that, it is the hope at the end of a hard day’s work.
Coal Porter is our tribute to those who carried and fetched, organised and dispatched the goods of trade in the world’s largest port, London Docks. The success of a nation was carried on their shoulders, and this is what fuelled them.
When the Montgolfier brothers established the first manned ascent into the skies in 1783, word must have reached George Cayley of Brompton in the Vale of Pickering. In 1799 he set out the concept of the modern aeroplane and thereby became the father of aviation.
His ideas liberated the adventurous and broke the bounds of convention. He fuelled the imagination of the inquisitive, shrank our world and expanded possibilities. Lighter than most but big on character, Lightheaded is only for the unconstrained, the free thinkers.
On September 1776 Doncaster found speed. The St. Ledger race was born. The power behind this speed was purely horse derived and to this day the race marks the pinnacle of achievement for racehorses. It is no surprise then, that on the 30th November 1934 it was a Doncaster born thoroughbred, locomotive 4472 that earned the land speed record for a railed vehicle travelling on the East Coast Main Line at 100mph. The engine bore the name, ‘The Flying Scotsman’ after the train it pulled on the 392 mile non-stop route between Edinburgh and London.
This A3 Pacific Class engine was the brainchild of Sir Nigel Gresley, the Scottish born Chief Mechanical Engineer of London North East Railway and was build at their Doncaster Plant Works. His ideas were progressive and his designs elegant, both aesthetically and mechanically. He ensured that Britain led the way in steam locomotive development in design, comfort and speed.
Built in the style of a ‘Scottish Heavy’, Great Scott is a traditional bitter, that celebrates our Doncaster heritage and more importantly speedily quenches the thirst on both sides of the border.
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