>Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:37:59 -0700 >From: "Terry L. Taylor" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Beef and Butt Beer >Sender: H-Net List for British and Irish History <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Reply-to: H-Net List for British and Irish History <[log in to unmask]> >Organization: Shoreline Community College, Seattle, WA >Original-recipient: rfc822;[log in to unmask] > >Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:18:36 -0400 >From: Eric Tenbus <[log in to unmask]> > >Sebastian: > >The term "butt' refers to the wooden cask in which beer was stored. "Entire >butt" seems to have been a name that initially referred to a blend of >three ales >(pale, brown, and old, the latter being aged for up to a year), a.k.a. the >"three >threads." According to Roger Protz in his book Classic Stout and Porter, >entire >butt, also sometimes called simply entire, co-existed with another flourishing >beer that soon became the most popular ale in England, that being >porter. Over >time, however, the name entire butt came to mean the same as porter, as London >drinkers often confused the two beers. This happened in the first few decades >of >the nineteenth century. Eventually, large brewers such as Whitbread >phased out >the production of entire butt as a separate ale. > >I hope that helps somewhat. > >Eric G. Tenbus, Ph.D. >Central Missouri State University