I visited Chatsworth Farm Shop looking for beer for #beersaturday. They had a few interesting local beers with great names. The first one I saw was the 'Eyam Plague', a blonde stout from Eyam Breweries. In Eyam in Derbyshire, the bubonic plague broke out in 1665 when a bundle of cloth infested with fleas, arrived from London for Alexander Hadfield, the local tailor. His assistant George Viccars, opened the bundle and unknown to him spread the plague that killed 260 people, including himself.
Next to it is 'Mompesson's Calling' a 5.5% robust porter, edging towards stout. Mompesson was the vicar in Eyam. He decided nobody should leave or enter the village so as not to spread the disease, saving many lives.
'Ring o' Roses' is also produced by Eyam Breweries. It is a 4.1% pale base and is vegan. As children we used to hold hands in a circle and go round and round singing the nursery rhyme "ring o' ring of roses". There are lots of explanations where the rhyme came from. I always thought as Eyam was the scene of the Black Plague the rhyme was about that.
There was also a beer called 'All Fall Down' from the same brewery, a 6.5% traditional full bodied IPA and is also named after the same nursery rhyme. This is the only bit of the rhyme that I can remember.
Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down.
I'm not a huge drinker so I just plumped for the Eyam Plague stout, using a very inappropriate Carling glass. 😉
Photos by @ellenripley - Julie S. All rights reserved.
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