As part of the 100th Anniversary of World War 1, we have launched a brand new commemorative beer for the Royal British Legion.
Named "Old Contemptible", the beer uses an old Arkell's recipe using British ingredients and would have been the kind of traditional beer appreciated by soldiers in 1914.
The pump clip features a picture of the late Sir Noel Arkell and Graham Arkell who took part in The Great War as part of the 4th Wiltshire Yeomanry.
£10.00 per cask sold is being donated to the Poppy appeal.
The name 'Old Contemptibles' was self-adopted by British troops belonging to the regular army in 1914, and was supposedly derived from a comment made by the German Kaiser Willhelm II, who upon hearing that German forces were being held up in France en route to the French capital is said to have exclaimed his exasperation of "Sir John French's contemptible little army".
