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[UncleUB]

Can anyone remember these beers of yester-year ( or add to them )

Watneys Red Barrel
Double Diamond
Worthington E
Youngers Tartan
Whitbread Tankard
John Smiths Magnet(this was a yorkshire beer usually 2p more than ordinary bitter,but wow what a drink.)

[Achilles Last Stand]

Oddly enough, I had a bottle of Spitfire last night and my first thought as I slurped the excess froth before it siplled over the rim of the glass  was 'Double Diamond' 


There used to be a pale ale in a blue can I think... might come to me later.

I remember the old can openers where you cut two triangles into the can to extract the contents...

[UncleUB]

Those can openers got me thinking,remember the 'party7' seven pint cans you used to get in for parties etc.

[roseway]

Ohmygawd, who could forget those. Seven pints of gnats' pee.

[UncleUB]

Thats the one eric,flatter than a dutch tulip field 

[scottiesmum]

Hubby's contribution ...

Imperial Pale Ale
Marstons    .....  look at this super 'photo  !  http://www.marstonsdontcompromise.co.uk/beer/empire.htm
Boddingtons  ( his favourite )
Courage Imperial Stout
Fullers Vintage Ale

wasn't there a Jubilee Stout  ? 

[UncleUB]

Nice photo,

Yes there was a Jubilee stout and one called Mackeson stout.

The beer I was 'weaned' on was Tennats (brewed here in Sheffield,not the scottish brewery)It was eventually swallowed up by Whitbread and then went downhill.
My dad once said if it goes up to 2 bob a pint,from 1 and 10 pence(10p to our younger members) he was packing up drinking  .
Did he ? 

[Achilles Last Stand]

I thought that Boddington's was relatively new... perhaps just to us 'darn Sarf' 

There's a couple of pubs on the cribbage league circuit that do a good pint of London Pride 

[scottiesmum]

    Steph ... Boddington Brewery was founded over 200 years ago !!  I know that you 'savarners' are  always a step behind the "Grim Norf "  but didn't realise it was this serious       Sadly the  original Strangeways Brewery in Manchester no longer exists, they stopped brewing there in 2005 and it's now brewed elsewhere in the UK,  obviously "daarn saarf " 

[UncleUB]

Re,Boddingtons,I know it has been marketed for only a few years,but the brewery has been going for a long time(Manchester I think)
Fullers London pride(used to drink that when I worked in London in the 1980,s) Us northerners can never get used to southern beer not having a nice head on it.Tastes okay though.


Edit,sorry kate you just posted before me.

[scottiesmum]

Pipped you at the post UncleUB 

[dave.m]

Boddingtons
Strangeways Brewery, Manchester.

Keg beers now brewed at Whitbreads’ Magor Brewery in South Wales.
Cask beers now brewed at Hydes Brewery, Moss Side, Manchester.




John Smiths
Tadcaster, Yorkshire.

Still brewed at the old brewery.





Samuel Smith
Tadcaster, Yorkshire.

Still brewed at the old brewery.




Barnsley Bitter
Oakwell Brewery, Barnsley.

Barnsley Bitter now brewed on the outskirts of Barnsley by a small independent brewer, Acorn.




Joshua Tetley
Leeds.

Still brewed in Leeds but rumoured to be moved by owners, Carlsberg UK.


This little bit of research has caused me to develop a slight thirst so, please excuse me.
I just might not be back until tomorrow.

dave 

[UncleUB]

Samuel smiths,now that reminds me of a pub in Sheffield in the sixties and seventies called The Black Swan (mucky duck)The beer was like pickled onion juice but the groups were good.Its where Joe Cocker first used to perform(Joe Cockers Grease band)

[tuftedduck]

From personal experience during my thiry five years living and working in England's smallest county.............Ruddles County Ale, brewed by the Ruddles family in Oakham.

Alas, now swallowed up (sic) by one of the big players and, as always when that happens, the product has been spoiled and emasculated to fit in with the perceived tastes of the  mass market.

Tuftedduck, ex local secretary CAMRA and graduate of The Institute of Advanced Ruddling.

[Floydoid]

The best brew I remember was a barley wine known as 'Robinson's old Tom'.  I remember one pub used to keep it during my student days... the stuff was gravity fed from a barrel sitting on the bar, and it was so potent the landlord would only sell it in half-pints.  (Two glasses and you'd be flat on your back.)

Hyde's Anvil ale was another popular brew in those days.