Product Description
Style: Bitter – Premium / Strong / Extra Special (ESB) • 5.0% ABV
Ingredients: Pipkin pale malt; Crystal Malt; brewers sugar; Bittering hops: Challenger; Aroma hops: Goldings and Challenger; Morland yeast. Previously 5.2% Was first brewed as a cask only beer in 1979 by Morland Brewery to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the MG car factory in Abingdon. The name comes from the MG factory’s works car – the gold speckled MG Featherweight Fabric Saloon, affectionately known as the Ol’ Speckl’d ’Un. Brewed since 1999 by Greene King following the take-over of Morlands, using the same yeast. Bottled Old Speckled Hen has been sterile filtered in the “Old Speckled Hen Hall” bottling facility since May 2006.
