Sharp-eyed Truman’s fans will have seen that we have a special winter ale on the pumps. It is a porter called Three Threads.

Truman’s owes a lot to the creation of porter as it was on the back of the Porter Boom that Truman’s became great. The name Three Threads is a reference to the origin of porter, it pays tribute to the role it played in our past (even if our version is not strictly a blend).

Originally, the drink was a blend of ‘ale, beer and ‘twopenny’ (a mild malt liquor of dark colour)’, which was mixed at the bar. Truman’s folklore claims that the it was the landlord of the Old Blue Last who, in 1722, first asked a brewer named Harwood to produce a brew that was a mix of three. The landlord named the drink ‘Porter’ in honour of the market porters who drank so many pints of ‘Three Threads’ at this bar.

It was a big moment in the history of British brewing because porter was the first beer which could be brewed in industrial quantities without any deterioration – a discovery that changed the brewing industry forever.

Three Threads is our first special since we re-established and you can find it at the Ten Bells, The Water Poet, The Carpenters Arms and The Peasant. Enjoy.