Raising a glass to the Platinum Jubilee – with beer brewed in Stroud in 1953!

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Ahead of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, staff at Stroud Brewery have uncovered two unopened bottles of Coronation Ale, made by the original Stroud Brewery at Wallbridge in 1953 to celebrate the Queen’s coronation.

MJB 3482 | Raising a glass to the Platinum Jubilee - with beer brewed in Stroud in 1953!
Coronation Ale was produced by Stroud Brewery in 1953. Picture: Hannah Bigwood.

Brewer Ben Jennison-Phillips told Stroud Times that the brewery will be raising a glass to the jubilee – but with one of their modern beers, not one made 70 years ago!

MJB 3484 | Raising a glass to the Platinum Jubilee - with beer brewed in Stroud in 1953!
Coronation Ale was produced by Stroud Brewery in 1953. Picture: Hannah Bigwood.

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