Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:52 am
See this is why I like this place and you old farts. It never occurred to me that you could buy 7 pints of beer in a can with no ring pull, or that lots of people thought that was a good idea
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:52 am
See this is why I like this place and you old farts. It never occurred to me that you could buy 7 pints of beer in a can with no ring pull, or that lots of people thought that was a good idea
Every kitchen drawer had one of these in! You had to make two holes though, opposite each other.
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:52 am
See this is why I like this place and you old farts. It never occurred to me that you could buy 7 pints of beer in a can with no ring pull, or that lots of people thought that was a good idea
Every kitchen drawer had one of these in! You had to make two holes though, opposite each other.
Taipan wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:44 am
We are ready to party!
IIRC my uncle Derek had a tap that you could fix to those somehow so it came out like a wine carton.
He also brewed his own whiskey that we weren't allowed to even try because apparently it made you blind
Taipan wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:44 am
We are ready to party!
IIRC my uncle Derek had a tap that you could fix to those somehow so it came out like a wine carton.
He also brewed his own whiskey that we weren't allowed to even try because apparently it made you blind
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:52 am
See this is why I like this place and you old farts. It never occurred to me that you could buy 7 pints of beer in a can with no ring pull, or that lots of people thought that was a good idea
Every kitchen drawer had one of these in! You had to make two holes though, opposite each other.
Three holes, two on one side. 'Beer' would flow more quickly
gremlin wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:06 pm
My local beer place does 5 litres of proper beer in mini kegs, complete with built-in taps. No amputation of digits required to get shitfaced.
gremlin wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:06 pm
My local beer place does 5 litres of proper beer in mini kegs, complete with built-in taps. No amputation of digits required to get shitfaced.
It's years since I've drank a pint of actual beer, the closest I get is the odd bottle of Corona or something.
I can remember going into pubs and they would serve proper beer brewed locally, then it seemed to change overnight and it was all lager and bottled stuff.
Harry wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:21 pm
It's years since I've drank a pint of actual beer, the closest I get is the odd bottle of Corona or something.
I can remember going into pubs and they would serve proper beer brewed locally, then it seemed to change overnight and it was all lager and bottled stuff.
In summer you can find me and crust at that place most Saturdays
Harry wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:21 pm
It's years since I've drank a pint of actual beer, the closest I get is the odd bottle of Corona or something.
I can remember going into pubs and they would serve proper beer brewed locally, then it seemed to change overnight and it was all lager and bottled stuff.
Where I grew up, our local was a Truman pub and most people drunk light and bitter as you always got a bit extra. Lagers were almost rare compared to the range of ales and bitters, but it changed quickly when more and more brewery houses gave way to free houses. Skol and Carlsberg faded away and Fosters was the most popular as it s as over 4% strong whereas I think Skol was under 3.5% and Carlsberg 3.8%? We'd go to Southend where the seafront bars stocked Stella at just over 5% and get pissed quicker! Interesting that more pubs are stocking more ales and the rise of the micro breweries is notable. Not a lover of Ales myself, despite trying to be. In colder weather I drink red wine and when its hot icy cold lager is the only thing to drink for me.
I have a barrel in the little courtyard...21litres of ginger beer...a light one this time...about 4.5%. The last lot was quite wicked...three halves had me talking nonsense. ( more than i normally do).
Taipan wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:33 pm
Where I grew up, our local was a Truman pub and most people drunk light and bitter as you always got a bit extra. Lagers were almost rare compared to the range of ales and bitters, but it changed quickly when more and more brewery houses gave way to free houses. Skol and Carlsberg faded away and Fosters was the most popular as it s as over 4% strong whereas I think Skol was under 3.5% and Carlsberg 3.8%? We'd go to Southend where the seafront bars stocked Stella at just over 5% and get pissed quicker! Interesting that more pubs are stocking more ales and the rise of the micro breweries is notable. Not a lover of Ales myself, despite trying to be. In colder weather I drink red wine and when its hot icy cold lager is the only thing to drink for me.
Bass was the nearest big brewery so most people drunk Bass bitter, but (and I don't know why) they seemed to promote their lager (Carling I think was theirs) a lot more and all the pubs became lager pubs. The problem was there was better (i.e stronger) lagers around, so Carling was for the ladies and I remember around 89/90 the pubs all had Tennents Extra on draft and it was strong, so you had to drink that otherwise you'd be considered a poof
By the time I'd stopped my youthful boozing days all the pubs were lager pubs and you'd be considered a frumpy old weirdo if you asked for a pint of real ale.
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Beer is trendy again in the UK now Harry, there are micro breweries everywhere. TBF they're mostly doing American style craft beers, but there are plenty of real ale places too.
TBH I much prefer craft beer now anyway...as I've said loads of times, the good stuff is produced with all the enthusiasm of real ale but it's served chilled.
You won't struggle to find a pub selling local beer IME. Even here in MK, where there are very few "real" pubs, there are a couple of places.
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I also remember Marstons Pedigree, but the story went that if you had more than three pints of that then you were guaranteed to shit yourself in your sleep, so we all stayed well away
Interesting that more pubs are stocking more ales and the rise of the micro breweries is notable. Not a lover of Ales myself, despite trying to be. In colder weather I drink red wine and when its hot icy cold lager is the only thing to drink for me.
