UNIVERSITY BEER

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 5, 7 January 1928, Page 22

UNIVERSITY BEER

BREWED FOE QUEEN'S COLLEGE. Ono of the relics of the past, when all large establishments in England and many small ones, too, brewed their own beer, is brought to notice by the retirement of Mr. Fred Hunt, who has brewed beer for Queen's College, Oxford, for the last 30 years, Jind has been in the service of the college for over half a century. The retirement of Mr. Hunt does not mean the cessation of the brewing, which will go on as it has done for centuries (says "Landmark," tho organ of the Eng-lish-speaking Union). 'I have been in service here 56 years," ho said, "and although I am going now, Twill still come in and see if the brew keeps up to the good old standard of Queen 's. Queen's it the last of the undergraduate colleges in Oxford to brew its own beer. I started my last brew yesterday. It has ten days' fermentation. I have three vats going, and tlio beer will fill nine barrels of 36 gallons each. Tho work of brewing is all done by hand. There is no machinery. The extract of malt is pumped into the copper by a pump which dates back to about 1600. That will bo done by my successor. I have passed on to him the teaching I received, and with it the good old traditions of the college brew. When I had been here 50 years the collego presented me with a 'fellows' plate'; tho samo as the fellows get when they call for a 'plate of beer.' My health was toasted in the famous chancellor brew. That is more than double the ordinary strength, and is drunk on special occasions."