A C S & H Crowley

A C S & H Crowley was a brewing company started by Abraham Crowley and sons. Abraham Crowley was the great uncle of Aleister Crowley.

“Alick remembers a lady calling at the house for a subscription in aid of Our Soldiers in Egypt. Edward Crowley browbeat and bullied her into tears with a philippic on “bibles and brandy”. He was, however, bitterly opposed to the Blue Ribbon Army. He said that abstainers were likely to rely on good works to get to heaven and thus fail to realize heir need of Jesus. He preached one Sunday in the town hall, saying, “I would rather preach to a thousand drunkards than a thousand T-totallers.” They retorted by accusing him of being connected with “Crowley's Ales”. He replied that he had been an abstainer for nineteen years, during which he had shares in a brewery. He had now ceased to abstain for some time, but all his money was invested in a waterworks.”—Chapter 3

“Look at your Christian as he sits down to dinner. … Beer? Well, perhaps a little beer — for he has shares in a brewery.”—Christianity

• A C S & H Crowley

• Christianity
• Chapter 3
• See also Crowley & Co

• Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley 9781556438998 1556438990; 4–8, 38, 567
• http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=A_C_S_%26_H_Crowley_(Croydon)—“A C S & H Crowley, 137-139 High Street, Croydon, Greater London.”
• http://cosgb.blogspot.com/2012/07/acs-h-crowley.html—“In 1821, Abraham Crowley and his sons, Charles Sedgefield and Henry, purchased a brewery in Turk Street, Alton.”
• http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_objectrecord_postsearch.htm&_IXFIRST_=33120&_IXMAXHITS_=1&m=quick_sform&tc1=i&tc2=e&s=qydpR6QuVBC—“View of Crowley's (Watney's) Tower from the north east. In 1763 the Baverstocks built a brewery on this site and operated it until 1821 when it was bought by Abraham Crowley. The Crowley's expanded the business and opened their Alton Ale shops in London but in 1877 the Burrell's bought the brewery though they retained the name Crowley's.”
• https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/dec/19/guardianletters1—“My great-great-grandfather, Abraham Crowley, insisted workmen be served bread and cheese with their pints. This arguably makes him the inventor of the pub lunch.”
• https://fromtinypennies.com/2019/02/07/aleister-crowley-the-occultist-from-leamington-spa/—“In the 1820s Abraham Crowley (Aleister’s great uncle) and two of his sons had purchased The Brewhouse in Alton. The Brewhouse expanded under the Crowley management and began to offer beer and a sandwich at a cheap price, inventing, according to some historians, the pub lunch. In 1877 the Crowleys sold the brewery to the son in law of Abraham Crowley, and Aleister’s father re-invested his share. His father was able to retire young on the profits, and when he died he left Aleister a considerable fortune which financed him throughout life and allowed him to immerse himself in his interests.”
• http://manicai.net/genealogy/crowley/mary-history/main/—“And it was in this house I learned to love the six portraits of their great relations: three Crowley Quaker brothers married to three Curtis Quaker sisters. The three brothers had purchased the brewery in Alton, Hampshire during 1821 from James Hinton Baverstock who had gone bankrupt. The brewery latter spread to Croydon.”
• https://notg.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/the-wickedest-man-in-the-world-alcohol-prohibition-and-religion-part-i/—“The Crowley family lays claim to a long and significant brewing tradition, having run a brewery in Croyden, Surrey, for over 200 years. In 1821 Abraham Crowley (Aleister’s great uncle) and two of his sons procured The Brewhouse in Alton, from James Baverstock.” “The Brewhouse expanded under the Crowley management and began to offer beer and a sandwich at a cheap price, inventing, according to some historians, the pub lunch. They even get a mention from Charles Dickens in his weekly published journal as 'providing a first-rate sandwich and a sparkling glass of Crowley's Ale.' The brewery produced a fine range of offerings over the years, including a dark brown ale, oatmeal stout, old ale, 'Alton Brew' (unknown ale), brown ale, Family Ale, regular stout, and light pale ale. In 1877 the Crowleys sold the brewery to the son in law of Abraham Crowley, and Aleister’s father re-invested his share in the sale into Amsterdam’s waterworks.”