 It has been asserted that this was in reference to the employment, by the new owners, of some brewers from Bavaria in order to produce a German-style beer, and that what is now called lager was brewed from that year.The writer Alfred Barnard, who visited the brewery in 1890, refers to a report from the British Commission on Beers which describes a beer from the Anglo-Bavarian brewery exhibited in Vienna as "combining the special properties of high class English Ales, with those of the lighter beers brewed upon the Bavarian lines" which, it has been claimed, supports the belief that the Anglo-Bavarian was brewing a form of lager.However Barnard's account of his own visit to the brewery only mentions "running" ale (for immediate consumption) and "stock ale", and newspaper advertisements for the Anglo-Bavarian Brewery Company in the mid-1870s show it brewing pale ale, mild ale, strong ale, porter, stout and amber ale, but not lager.