On Monday 12th April 1848 Chartists rallied to call for the vote on Kennington Common. The protest was captured via daguerreotype photographs. Its thought not all have survived or at least been discovered but those that have are in the Royal Collection at Windsor. Queen Victoria had a considerable interest in the event in case, as elsewhere in Europe in 1848, it took a revolutionary turn.
Fast forward 176 years and Pressure Drop, an independent craft brewery based in Tottenham have produced a daguerreotype IPA. The 6.8% strength would have worked with beers that Chartists might have drunk in 1848 but the New England style of hazy beer probably would not
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