Pub Names - Alcohol Related

Alcohol Related

• Barley Mow: Barley is laid in a malting, watered and heated gently until the grain germinates. Cooking then kills the germination process, and the result is called malt. Malt is the ingredient in beer which gives it its sweet taste and colour. The mow is a stack.
• Barrels: A cask or keg containing 36 Imperial gallons of liquid, especially beer. Other sizes include: pin, 36 pints; firkin, 9 gallons; kilderkin, 18 gallons; half-hogshead, 27 gallons; hogshead, 54 gallons; butt, probably 104 gallons.
• Brewery Tap: A public house originally found on-site or adjacent to a brewery and often showcasing its products to visitors; although, now that so many breweries have closed, the house may be nowhere near an open brewery.
• Cock: While often depicted as a cockerel, this term usually means that the pub originally served beer from a barrel rather than in bottles. "Cock" referring to the stopcock used to drain the beer from the barrel.
• Hop Inn: Hop flowers are the ingredient in beer which gives it its bitter taste, though this name is really intended as a pun.
• Hop Pole: The poles which support wires or ropes up which hops grow in the field.
• (Sir) John Barleycorn: A character of English traditional folk music and folklore, similar to a Green Man. He is annually cut down at the ankles, thrashed, but always reappears—an allegory of growth and harvest based on barley.
• Leather Bottle or Leathern Bottle: A container in which a small amount of beer or wine was transported, now succeeded by a bottle or can.
• Malt Shovel: A shovel used in a malting to turn over the barley grain.
• Mash Tun, a brewery vessel used to mix grains with water.
• Three Tuns: Based on the arms of two City of London guilds, the Worshipful Company of Vintners and the Worshipful Company of Brewers.