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| | Meantime Brewing - India Pale Ale |
 | | At home the temperance movement was trying to destroy the trade by rationing and reducing the number of pubs, so that the brewers were forced to invest their capital, not in coppers and casks but the bricks and mortar of public houses. |
 | | The added sparkle that bottle conditioning produced, plus the premium nature of bottled beer, and the growing size of the middle classes, who were its core market, gave non-Burton brewers the opportunity to replicate the style of mass distributed Burton beers with which they could not directly compete in the draught market. |
 | | The medium, comprises the lighter stouts, superior bitter beers, mild or fourpence ale, which latter is still the beverage of the working classes, and porter. |
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