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Title'Invalid Stout' bottle

DescriptionStoneware bottle for ‘Invalid Stout’ supplied by Benjamin Mackay, wine and spirit merchant, Queen’s Building, Lenzie. Stout is characterised by its dark colour and roasty flavour. Invalid stout, also known as ‘milk stout’, was originally marketed as an especially nutritious health supplement, a sort of liquid food ideal for nursing mothers, invalids and the infirm. It was sometimes given in hospitals and often recommended on a daily basis to post-operative patients as ‘a tonic’: good for strength, nerves, digestion, exhaustion and sleeplessness. If you had ‘signed the pledge’ and were teetotal but feeling in need of ‘a tonic’ you could still drink beer for purely medicinal purposes with a clear conscience. The reverse of the bottle reads: ‘If not returned will be charged’.

Object nameBottle