Ginger Beer Stoneware ~ Bartons Brewery ~ c. 1900

Code: 12091

Genuine Victorian Transfer Printed
GINGER BEER

Barton’s Brewery

Birmingham, England
c. 1900

This is a wonderful English Victorian stoneware flagon that once held Ginger Beer probably mixed with a variety of exotic flavored herbs .  The original recipe requires only ginger, sugar, water, lemon juice and a fungal-bacteria symbiote known as a ginger beer plant. Fermentation over a few days turns the mixture into ginger beer.  Brewed ginger beer originated in the mid-18th century.

6 3/4 inches tall x 2 3/4 inches wide 

Great Condition.