TENNENT’S
InBev
UK, 4.4% ABV
Reportedly Fred West’s favourite tipple, Tennent’s was the first lager to be brewed in Scotland, in 1885. The Wellpark Brewery was founded in Glasgow by Hugh and Robert Tennent in 1740. Originally called the Drygate Brewery (where it was based), it expanded some fifty years later when the family bought a nearby brewery and renamed the site. As Scotland’s best-selling pale lager, Tennent’s has enjoyed a number of ‘first’ accolades… the first draught lager in 1924, the first canned lager in 1935 and the first keg lager in 1963. And no doubt it is probably the first beer to touch the palette of drinkers in Scotland. And speaking of taste, I’ll not bore you with ‘true taste of Scotland’ clichés or Irvine Welsh ‘schemie’ references; it’s all standard in price, strength, taste and consistency. It is lager in colour and lager in taste and doesn’t pretend to be anything else. A cool, quaffable tasty lager and at a medium strength, it will do the trick if you are out on an all-dayer. You can rely on the Big T; he’s an old friend to reacquaint yourself with when you’re in town. If you live in Scotland, it is generally as easy to lay your hands on as IrnBru or water. Or in the beer tent at T in the Park festival if they ever have a decent line-up and make it worth going to. Outside of Scotland, it’s less in your face, but still available everywhere. SW
