Old Speckled Hen a 6.5% abv ale, Old Golden Hen, a golden coloured 4.1% beer, and Old Hoppy Hen, a 4.2% abv pale ale. Old Speckled Hen took its name from an MG car which was used as a runaround for workers in the MG factory. Over years of service, the car became covered in flecks of paint, gaining it acclaim in the town and earned it the nickname "Owld Speckled 'Un", translated by Ian Williams the personnel officer at the Abingdon factory into Old Speckled Hen for the brown ale first brewed by Morland in 1979 when the brewery was asked by
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