The Blind Beggar The Blind Beggar The Blind Beggar is a pub on Whitechapel Road in Whitechapel in the East End of London, England. It is where Ronnie Kray murdered George Cornell in front of witnesses, and is the location of William Booth's first sermon, which led to the creation of the Salvation Army. It was the nearest outlet (or brewery tap) for the Manns Albion brewery, where the first modern Brown Ale was brewed. The pub was built in 1894 on the site of an inn which had been established before 1654, and takes its name from the legend of Henry de
Burton Ale Ale was brewed by collecting the first and richest wort and fermenting it separately to make strong ale... [It] would have been brewed from malt paler than the brown high-dried malt used for porter, but one that was still much darker than modern pale ale malts." It was "the original dark, rather sweet beer the brewers of Burton upon Trent made and exported to Russia before they started brewing even paler, bitterer India Pale Ales in the 1820s". "Burtons vary in flavour, some are quite strongly hopped, others retain the bitter-sweet flavour of mild beer." Burton Ales were generally aged