Ale Cellar Stocks, Soho House, 1822

Description:This is the cover of a list of the stock of the ale cellar at Soho House was taken on the 22nd of April 1822. The list itself is also available on this site. By this time the house was lived in by Matthew Robinson Boulton (the son of Matthew Boulton) and his young family.

As was common in large houses at this time there was a brewhouse at Soho so the ale would have been made on the premises. The list gives the quantity in each barrel and the date it was brewed. One barrel was sent to the other family home of Great Tew in Oxfordshire and at the time of this inventory there were 512 gallons in stock. There were also 19 bottles of porter which was a dark brown bitter beer.