London Brown Ale is a part of a beer style that has been around since the beginning of brewing beer. Mostly this was in large part due to malt being dried over open flames prior to the kilning processes being developed.
Although the utilization of wheat in beer did provide for some pale-colored beers to be produced. However, most beers coming out were indeed brown in color.
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This trend of brown beers continued until the beginning of the 18th century. It was then that the public’s taste for beer shifted to higher-hopped pale ales. This prompted brown beer brewers to reshape their recipes.
As a result the alcohol content and bitterness lever