S. Bristol Born & Red Posted October 12, 2013 Report Share Posted October 12, 2013 Remember these beers of the past... you don't see them around now - mainly lagers as that's my drink, but there must be cider and ales that you remember drinking... Kestrel Lager (Youngers), Harp Lager, Arctic Lite, Colt 45, Castlemaine XXXX, Lamot, Hofmeister....Tenents Extra (5%) (not the Super).. I also remember Ben Truman ("Taste The Hops") and Long Life beer (Ind Coope)...my old man used to drink it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinmabbuttshair Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Special Vat, Autumn Gold are two ciders that seem to have vanished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Carling Premier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Double Diamond beer (works wonders)....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Hitler Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Castlemaine was one of my favourite lagers, I wondered where it had gone too and have looked it up to find it diisappeared in 2009: XXXX was brewed under licence in the UK by InBev Ltd until 2009. It was commonly available in cans in British off licences and sometimes on tap in British pubs, although it was much less widely available than Foster's (which is found in many UK pubs). At 3.7% alcohol, the British brewed XXXX was somewhat weaker than most of the Australian variants. Castlemaine XXXX was withdrawn from the UK at the end of June 2009 when InBev's licensing agreement expired.[3] Carling Premier gave me one of my worst hangovers ever, it must have been stuffed with chemicals to keep the head all the way down to the bottom of the glass. Liked the taste but never touched it since. Glad it's gone. Newquay Steam Beer was superb, had a Grolsch-type bottle. And this is what happened to it: Well ‘Newquay Steam Beer’ was a victim of its own success. It outsold the major beer seller in the southwest by miles. The competitor had to produce something better or lose out. Their money men suggested that they should buy the rights to the name, the recipes and the artwork and sell it as their own. They were missing the secret ingredient and the flair to drive the brand forward and so after quite a short period of time ‘Steam Beer’ sank without a trace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Not that i drank it myself, too young, but as a kid I can remember Watneys red barrel being very popular, with a red barrel outside pubs that sold it. I can remember a joke told by Mike Reid at Butlins about looking for somewhere to get a drink in Amsterdam, seeing what he thought was an illuminated red barrel and thinking `ah Watneys`...... Also Watneys party 7 was a house party favourite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 'Bristol Velvet' from Courage & Barclay & Simonds Brewery as per the YouTube video where you've got 9 of 10 beers not around anymore..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Bristol Born & Red Posted October 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Castlemaine was one of my favourite lagers, I wondered where it had gone too and have looked it up to find it diisappeared in 2009: Carling Premier gave me one of my worst hangovers ever, it must have been stuffed with chemicals to keep the head all the way down to the bottom of the glass. Liked the taste but never touched it since. Glad it's gone. Newquay Steam Beer was superb, had a Grolsch-type bottle. And this is what happened to it: Well ‘Newquay Steam Beer’ was a victim of its own success. It outsold the major beer seller in the southwest by miles. The competitor had to produce something better or lose out. Their money men suggested that they should buy the rights to the name, the recipes and the artwork and sell it as their own. They were missing the secret ingredient and the flair to drive the brand forward and so after quite a short period of time ‘Steam Beer’ sank without a trace. Good call on Newquay Steam Beer, had totally forgotten that....it was a nice drop..seem to remember there were about 3 variations i.e. Pils, Beer and maybe one more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIGHRIDGE BCFC Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Copperhead cider,used to have it in the Plough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipdawg Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 There's a brilliant video somewhere in the ether of a Yorkshire regional news program interviewing miners (I think) coming off a shift and revealing to them that Barnsley Bitter was to stop being made. There were grizzled men who'd been underground for most of their lives moved to tears by the thought of never tasting it again. A few years ago Acorn Brewery started brewing it again to the original recipe. It's not bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiale Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 When Bristol fashion was a dark pub with lots of areas so friends could kinds have mini areas themselves during the 80s we used to go because they had Labatts on draft.. Sad days :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Miller lite still going? Never got a hangover on tht stuff back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltshoveller Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Holston Export on draft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Peacock Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Courage Imperial Stout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screech Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Caffreys. xxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bissellredhead Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 It's still about, can't remember the proper name as I've never drank it, but my skittles team still call it 'a pint of green' because the sign on the pump was green, it's now red.... Can anyone enlighten me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Bristol Born & Red Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Can you still get Boddingtons? Used to like a drop of that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted October 14, 2013 Admin Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Good job most of them have gone....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Caffreys. xxx I loved Caffreys, still about but I'm pretty sure the abv is lower, same with Boddingtons and the smooth version of Tetleys which I think has practically no alcohol in it at all. Another drink I loved from the 90's was Carling Premier which was basically flat lager with a head, then again I was about 18 when it came out. Didn't Guiness do bitter for a while as well? I was sh1tfaced by about 4PM on the afternoon of Dec 31st 1999 thanks to Hofmeister but haven't seen it since. Maybe it was a casualty of the 'Millenium Bug'? Not a beer but MD20/20 was the drink of choice for us as 16 year olds hanging around in Bedminster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunnyfunt Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Fosters ice, Bud ice, Rolling Rock and Michelob, oranjeboom. All vanished? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynriley Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Don't see Directors about very often these days, was always a nice drop in the winter months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider11 Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Fosters ice, Bud ice, Rolling Rock and Michelob, oranjeboom. All vanished? I'm sure that oranjeboom sponsor Essex cricket club or at least have ad boards around the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted October 15, 2013 Admin Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Don't see Directors about very often these days, was always a nice drop in the winter months. Don't really see Courage Best or BA around either, they, along with Directors, when kept correctly were decent beers, made in the largest real ale brewery in the country ( or was it the world), before Courage were bought out and shipped up North. You can't move production of a beer that far, because the water is so different. I don't like too many of the Northern beers, too smooth and served from swan neck pumps to aerate them ( sadly now a common sight in pubs in Bristol) , whereas the Southern Beers, Courages - as was, Fullers, Butcombe etc etc are made with harder water and are best served straight from the barrel or at least through a pump with a straight outlet, not a swan neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipdawg Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Don't really see Courage Best or BA around either, they, along with Directors, when kept correctly were decent beers, made in the largest real ale brewery in the country ( or was it the world), before Courage were bought out and shipped up North. You can't move production of a beer that far, because the water is so different. I don't like too many of the Northern beers, too smooth and served from swan neck pumps to aerate them ( sadly now a common sight in pubs in Bristol) , whereas the Southern Beers, Courages - as was, Fullers, Butcombe etc etc are made with harder water and are best served straight from the barrel or at least through a pump with a straight outlet, not a swan neck. It's not the swan neck on the pump that aerates the beer and creates the creamy head, it's the 'sparkler' on the end of the pump. As someone who was raised and still lives in the north, I find the southern practice of not using sparklers barbaric! With notable exceptions (Butcombe being one, Sharps being another, southern beer is like dishwater IMO. The best beer in Britain at the minute is being brewed in South and West Yorkshire; West Yorkshire has more breweries per square mile than any other county in the UK. I can heartily recommend the output of Abbeydale, Kelham Island and Bradfield in Sheffield, Nook in Holmfirth, Magic Rock in Huddersfield and Ossett in Wakefield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted October 15, 2013 Admin Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Sparklers and swan necks are the work of northern devils and imps....... Beer should be served direct from the cask in ideal circumstances. When Courage was moved 'oop north, the chemists thought they had sussed out how to keep it tasting like beer, instead of cream, but it would appear that they failed, that and the marketing people just didn't want to keep the brew going. The smooth creamy northern real ales just don't do it for me, but they at least are more acceptable than the pastuerised, tasteless nitro kegmuck that the big brewery conglomerates would like to push on us as the only option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipdawg Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 You southern nancy boys just can't handle a proper pint! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazred Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Don't really see Courage Best or BA around either, they, along with Directors, when kept correctly were decent beers, made in the largest real ale brewery in the country ( or was it the world), before Courage were bought out and shipped up North. You can't move production of a beer that far, because the water is so different. I don't like too many of the Northern beers, too smooth and served from swan neck pumps to aerate them ( sadly now a common sight in pubs in Bristol) , whereas the Southern Beers, Courages - as was, Fullers, Butcombe etc etc are made with harder water and are best served straight from the barrel or at least through a pump with a straight outlet, not a swan neck. My drinking education began with Courage Best and Directors, fantastic stuff. I did come across bottled Directors a few months back, first time i had seen it in years, still tasted pretty good. I miss seeing Smiles on tap as well, they did some great beers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Bristol Born & Red Posted October 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Simonds Bitter, remember it from the mid 80's, don't think it still exists....and Worthington E (the logo was a large 'E') never drank it but remember the logo on beermats / bartowels, someone might remember it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinmabbuttshair Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Directors in bottles at asda patchway. 3 for a fiver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazred Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Directors in bottles at asda patchway. 3 for a fiver. Good shout mate, cheers. Will check my local Asda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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