Carlsberg Tetley Alloa

20/11/2025

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07/08/2025

I’ve commented on the like before with pub pictures not as old as this. The change in drinking trends away from dark beers. Even nearly forty years ago when I started driving for Alloa Brewery- 70- special, 80/- Export and 60/- Light was still very popular against our brands of lager, Skol, Carlsberg and Castlemaine ###X.
The heavy beers did well in the industrial areas of Scotland, particularly Lanarkshire. The heavy engineering, coal mining and shipbuilding all kept breweries busy.
Licensed retail trade calculate turnover in term of barrels sold in “wet sales”. A barrel is defined as 36 gallon/ 288 pints. As various keg sizes exist between brewers they all have to be converted to 36 for the purposes of turnover. So an order of 1 x36 barrel, 2x 18 gallon kilderkins and 4 x 9 gallon firkins equate to three barrels only. There are seven KEGS of various size in that order- that is NOT seven barrels in terms of turnover.
So getting back to the change in beer trends and the loss of heavy industry which affected that- here are a few examples from memory, I’m sure my workmates can add more examples.
Top of the list in my memory for Alloa Light was without doubt “Era Bar, Craigneuk which was right outside Ravenscraig steel mill. That pub got 25/30 kegs of light a week ALONE! Many pubs today seen as “ busy” wouldn’t do that with every font on the bar! Pubs near shipbuilding yards like Dry Dock Yoker and across the water Fairfield’s Govan were similarly busy. You really HAD to have these pubs delivered no later than 11.30 because at lunchtime it was mayhem. Hundreds of poured pints covered the bars awaiting an invasion like bees pouring out a hive. Light beer was called that although dark brown because of its alcoholic strength generally 2.4-2.8%z so workers could scoff three of them at lunchtime and not be bothered. Second place in beers was 70/- special then 80/- Export which is hardly seen in any bar today. Guinness was very popular too but especially so in South Side where the largest Irish bars and clubs were. They too sold more Guinness than most pubs would sell from all fonts.
This has all change with the collapse of heavy engineering and lager more prevalent now.
Perhaps these miners of 100 years past would have appreciated lager too. Being pre- pit heid baths they’d at least be more easy to distinguish their pint from their hand!

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01/09/2021

Got a message about this last week but waited till I seen it formally.

A good man, well respected in the industry and a gentleman. As MD of Alloa Brewery (Skol) we met for meetings. If is oft said respect has be earned- not demanded of by your superiors.
Allan always had my respect and I held him in the very highest regard.
You may never see this Union official write that again of a past manager….
RIP Allan ☹️

03/09/2018

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Alloa_Brewery_Co

1810 Established in Alloa by William Foote, Ebenezer Thompson and Andrew Roy, who was the manager of the concern. By 1825 Andrew Roy had bought out hi...

03/09/2018

The end of the brewery and the beginning of the end for the depot. For history already showed at the time when a brewery shut - its transport and warehousing would follow as it could be relocated anywhere.

CARLSBERG-Tetley was ac-cused last night of ''probably the worst closure in the world'' after it announced it was axing 1500 jobs and shutting three…

20/08/2018

Me n’ Jimmy Sullivan must have had ears burnin’ on Saturday.
One fond memory I have of Greenfield St- an excellent workshop and guid lads in it.
Enjoyed a few wi’ Jimmy- 20 years since I parted company wi’ CT. Hard to believe.
Aye it was a sad day I left the croft......

05/10/2017

Chris Armstrong arrangements

THUR 12th OCTOBER 11.00 a.m ST SERFS, TULLIBODY, then FALKIRK CREM, THEN ABERCROMBIE TULLIBODY

27/09/2017

More bad news- RIP Chris😕

23/04/2017

Good crack wi George yesterday. Ears must have been burning... 😂

29/12/2016

Pleased to meet Martin yesterday, different days from humphing beer barrels.
We all need to organise somewhere for a pint! 😏🍻🍻

20/11/2016

Here are some of the exhibits at http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/community/events/?event=2024

This exhibition runs until 31 January 2016 so still time to view it. It is true that the town should have its own fixed museum/ archive as the heritage of Alloa brewing should have its place in the community. Apologies for the quality of some of these images, the exhibits are inside a glass case hence the reflection.
Only one talk still to take place on Thursday December 15th- see you there!
http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/community/events/?event=2026