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Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: UncleUB on January 16, 2008, 07:04:00 AM
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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.)
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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' :D
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...
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Those can openers got me thinking,remember the 'party7' seven pint cans you used to get in for parties etc.
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Ohmygawd, who could forget those. Seven pints of gnats' pee. :'(
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Thats the one eric,flatter than a dutch tulip field :D
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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 ?
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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 :D.
Did he ? :no:
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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 :drink:
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:o :o 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 :lol: 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 " :lol:
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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. :thumbs:
Edit,sorry kate you just posted before me.
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Pipped you at the post UncleUB ;D
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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.
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John Smiths
Tadcaster, Yorkshire.
Still brewed at the old brewery.
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Samuel Smith
Tadcaster, Yorkshire.
Still brewed at the old brewery.
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Barnsley Bitter
Oakwell Brewery, Barnsley.
Barnsley Bitter now brewed on the outskirts of Barnsley by a small independent brewer, Acorn.
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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 ;D
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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)
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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.
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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.
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When I began courting my wife about 40+ years back, she used to sup Gold Label Barley Wine.
She always said that . . . .
After one, she couldn't feel it!
After two, she could feel it!
After three, anybody could feel it!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
dave :P
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I trust that you always restricted her to two!
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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.
And very nice that "County Bitter" was too.Another one was Davenports "Drum Bitter" but one of my personal favourites was Mitchell and Butlers mild! Not very strong, but very smooth!
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Not yester-year, just yester-Thursday, an away match gave me the opportunity to try a couple of beers from the Nelson Brewing Company http://www.nelsonbrewingcompany.co.uk/ which was a new one on me despite them being local (well, Kent!)
Tried Spanker (4.2%) and Trafalgar (4.1%); I want to describe both as a bit thin but that's not a word I'd usually associate with beer :D the Trafalgar was definitely the better of the two, the Spanker left a bit of an aftertaste.