Brown ale term "brown ale" was revived at the end of the 19th century when London brewer Mann introduced a beer with that name. However, the style only became widely brewed in the 1920s. The brown ales of this period were considerably stronger than most modern English versions. In 1926, Manns Brown Ale had an original gravity of 1.043 and an ABV of around 4%. Whitbread Double Brown was even stronger, an OG of 1.054 and more than 5% ABV. The introduction of these beers coincided with a big increase in demand for bottled beer in the UK. In the 1930s some
Caffrey's Irish Ale established in Belfast in 1897 and taken over by Bass in 1974, closed in 2004, so ending big company brewing in Northern Ireland. Caffrey's Irish Ale Caffrey's Irish Ale is an ale launched in 1994 by Bass Brewery and currently owned by Molson Coors. The Caffrey brewing family first brewed beer in Dublin in the late 18th century, about thirty years after the Guinness brewery was founded. They too sited their brewery on the River Liffey, a few hundred yards east of the Guinness site. Caffrey’s Irish Ale was re-launched in 1994 and marketed as a beer which combined features