Holdens Black Country Ales – “Shag Boss”

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1. I don’t get it. Is it a pun?

2. Maybe he’s smoking a Halfzware Shag cigarette? :/

3. They’d have you believe it’s a colliers term, the “shag boss” being a “foreman who was made responsible for managing the waste (or shag, as it was called)”. The Red Shag (or shagg) is an ironstone(?) seam in the N. Staffs coalfield.

4. Ahh… Thanks!