Changing Leeds - A victory for the city's beer-swilling brethren

The Campaign for Real Ale scored its greatest victory after its members persuaded the country's giant brewers to turn back the clock more than a century by bringing back the almost forgotten art of in-pub brewing.

Just like the old days when every landlord turned out his own tipple, the move was towards do-it-yourself beer making.

Tetley's set the trend when it installed a brewing plant at the Station Hotel in Guiseley. Landlord Peter Young was given the job of producing regular supplies of a drink called Guiseley Gyle. It sold in competition with the brewery's mild and bitter in the same bar.

The Fox & Newt in Burley followed suit offering Burley Bitter, Old Willow and Kirkstall Ruin, all brewed in the pub's cellar.

This photo rewinds to December 1982 and shows Tony Marks, Fox & Newt manager, testing a pint brewed on the premises.

Fast forward a decade later and your YEP reported in 1992 how drinkers at the pub, by that time the last in the city to serve home-brewed ales, were left crying in their beer.

Brewing giant Whitebread confirmed they had called time on in pub brewed pints. They blamed problems finding replacement brewing equipment on its decision to turn off the tap.

WHICH WAS YOUR FAVOURITE HOME BREWED ALE IN LEEDS BACK IN THE DAY? Share your memories with Andrew Hutchinson via email at: [email protected] or tweet him - @AndyHutchYPN**************************

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