Pubs & Beer

[Padge]

56 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

A whisky mac is nice, but try it with spiced rum instead of whisky for a delicious variation.

I am more of a rum person than whisky, may have to give that a try.

[shaun mc]

5 hours ago, Padge said:

I enjoy a Crabbies GInger Beer (4%) in Summer, a nice refreshing drink on a warm day.

Crabbies is now 3.4%? 

Crabbies brand also owned by Halewood Foods - see posts above.

There are a lot of beers at 3.4% now - this is saving duty. Beers 3.5% and above are taxed 2.25 times higher. Every brewery is now brewing a 3.4% beers it seems

[Padge]

28 minutes ago, shaun mc said:

Crabbies is now 3.4%? 

Crabbies brand also owned by Halewood Foods - see posts above.

There are a lot of beers at 3.4% now - this is saving duty. Beers 3.5% and above are taxed 2.25 times higher. Every brewery is now brewing a 3.4% beers it seems

Well that's Crabbies sacked, this summer has been so ###### I haven't indulged.

Not seeing much, if any, at 3.4% where I go, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster mainly.

 

Edited October 1, 2024 by Padge

[shaun mc]

16 minutes ago, Padge said:

Well that's Crabbies sacked, this summer has been so ###### I haven't indulged.

Not seeing much, if any, at 3.4% where I go, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster mainly.

 

The 3.4% beers maybe for the tied pubs? Robinsons & Oakham have recently released a 3.4% beer.

Going round a few Preston pubs on Saturday - Winckley Ale House, Plau, Guild Ale House, The Orchard, Plug & Taps. Might even get into the Black Horse for nostalgia purposes. The Moorbrook is good, but a little out of town  

[Padge]

18 minutes ago, shaun mc said:

The 3.4% beers maybe for the tied pubs? Robinsons & Oakham have recently released a 3.4% beer.

Going round a few Preston pubs on Saturday - Winckley Ale House, Plau, Guild Ale House, The Orchard, Plug & Taps. Might even get into the Black Horse for nostalgia purposes. The Moorbrook is good, but a little out of town  

Our regulars on a Preston visit, should have been at UCLAN tonight but didn't make it, that usually means a visit to The Vinyl Tap.

Edited October 1, 2024 by Padge

[Padge]

20 hours ago, Padge said:

Well that's Crabbies sacked, this summer has been so ###### I haven't indulged.

Not seeing much, if any, at 3.4% where I go, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster mainly.

 

 

20 hours ago, shaun mc said:

Crabbies is now 3.4%? 

Crabbies brand also owned by Halewood Foods - see posts above.

There are a lot of beers at 3.4% now - this is saving duty. Beers 3.5% and above are taxed 2.25 times higher. Every brewery is now brewing a 3.4% beers it seems

Oddly since this was posted/discussed I popped in Sherringtons in Wigan this afternoon and first beer I clocked was Marble Breweries Pint at 3.4%

[Spidey]

I’ve not had alcoholic beer in volume for a while. Over the weekend I did drink BrewDog punk AF, San Miguel 0, Heineken 0, Corona 0 Guinness 0, Peroni 0. Plus a German pils AF called Rathaus. All of which satisfied my taste buds.  I did treat myself to a half of Belhaven 80’ which was a decent session beer while in Edinburgh

[Jeff Stein]

During the Wigan Leigh game, I had a taste test between Budweiser Budvar (original) and Budweiser Budvar Dark. Been a big fan of Budvar for over 30 years, but generally prefer dark beers. The original Budvar is a world classic and very refreshing, but I really like the dark. However i really like the Budvar dark. Unlike some of the darks, which have come out lately, the malt is not overpowering. 

Conclusion: Both were tastier than the Wigan Leigh game.

[EggFace]

On 01/10/2024 at 19:31, shaun mc said:

Crabbies is now 3.4%? 

Crabbies brand also owned by Halewood Foods - see posts above.

There are a lot of beers at 3.4% now - this is saving duty. Beers 3.5% and above are taxed 2.25 times higher. Every brewery is now brewing a 3.4% beers it seems

I hope they pass on the saving to the customer.

[Ullman]

6 hours ago, Jeff Stein said:

During the Wigan Leigh game, I had a taste test between Budweiser Budvar (original) and Budweiser Budvar Dark. Been a big fan of Budvar for over 30 years, but generally prefer dark beers. The original Budvar is a world classic and very refreshing, but I really like the dark. However i really like the Budvar dark. Unlike some of the darks, which have come out lately, the malt is not overpowering. 

Conclusion: Both were tastier than the Wigan Leigh game.

Both good beers and often available very reasonably priced at Home Bargains.

[Padge]

8 hours ago, Jeff Stein said:

During the Wigan Leigh game, I had a taste test between Budweiser Budvar (original) and Budweiser Budvar Dark. Been a big fan of Budvar for over 30 years, but generally prefer dark beers. The original Budvar is a world classic and very refreshing, but I really like the dark. However i really like the Budvar dark. Unlike some of the darks, which have come out lately, the malt is not overpowering. 

Conclusion: Both were tastier than the Wigan Leigh game.

Near Russel Square in London ther is/was a pub that had Original Budwieser Budvar on draught, both braun and blonde, my wife is a big fan of Budvar and was wondering which to go for. The guy behind the bar said to her "you're from up north, you like mixed, I'll do you a mixed", she whent for it. She now recomends Budvar mixed to everyone.

[Padge]

20 hours ago, Padge said:

Near Russel Square in London ther is/was a pub that had Original Budwieser Budvar on draught, both braun and blonde, my wife is a big fan of Budvar and was wondering which to go for. The guy behind the bar said to her "you're from up north, you like mixed, I'll do you a mixed", she whent for it. She now recomends Budvar mixed to everyone.

Remembered the name of the pub, Friend at Hand.

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

On 01/10/2024 at 19:58, Padge said:

Well that's Crabbies sacked, this summer has been so ###### I haven't indulged.

Not seeing much, if any, at 3.4% where I go, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster mainly.

 

The reference to Lancaster makes me go all nostalgic, Padge.  Even as I type this at my computer desk, there are, near me on the desk, four still full (never opened) bottles of beer.  They include one of Yates & Jackson's 'Nut Brown' and one of Mitchell's 'Centenary Ale - 1880-1980'.

For the record, the other two bottles are from Traquair House (brew no. 20, bottle no. 28352, according to the handwriting on the label!) and Hall & Woodhouse (t/a Badger Beers) from Blandford Forum; it's one of their 'Bicentenary Ale - 1777-1977' bottles.

When Mrs WWD and I got wed, at Long Preston church, we had a DIY reception at Long Preston village hall, for which I got in draught beer from Yates & Jackson, Mitchell's and Hartley's of Ulverston - a very happy day for various reasons!

[Jeff Stein]

3 hours ago, Padge said:

Remembered the name of the pub, Friend at Hand.

Looks to be a Greene King pub nowadays.

[Padge]

Just now, Jeff Stein said:

Looks to be a Greene King pub nowadays.

Probably over 10 years since we stayed there for the Challenge Cup Final, used to stay around Russell Square regularly when we went down on the train, so it may well have become GK pub

[Jeff Stein]

5 minutes ago, Padge said:

Probably over 10 years since we stayed there for the Challenge Cup Final, used to stay around Russell Square regularly when we went down on the train, so it may well have become GK pub

Chances are Bury St Edmunds 4th best brewery will have rid the place of anything worth drinking

[Futtocks]

3 hours ago, Padge said:

Remembered the name of the pub, Friend at Hand.

I've walked past it several times when I worked in Holborn, but never gone in. Always looked busy.

[Padge]

33 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

I've walked past it several times when I worked in Holborn, but never gone in. Always looked busy.

Was a good friendly boozer.

Another good one around that area was The Ship behind Holbourn Station, went in one year and it had almost exclusive Northern Beers on, asked the Landlady about the beer selection and she said the knew it was the Challenge Cup Final that weekend so ordered Northern beers.

[Futtocks]

45 minutes ago, Padge said:

Was a good friendly boozer.

Another good one around that area was The Ship behind Holbourn Station, went in one year and it had almost exclusive Northern Beers on, asked the Landlady about the beer selection and she said the knew it was the Challenge Cup Final that weekend so ordered Northern beers.

We had a leaving do or two at The Enterprise on Red Lion Street, also near Holborn. That usually had a reasonable range of beers and wasn't rammed too full of amateur drinkers at the end of the working day.

[Stirlin]

5 hours ago, Padge said:

Remembered the name of the pub, Friend at Hand.

When down for Wembley weekend with Fulfordgate , York  WMC we used the Friend at Hand for our DTS on the friday and saturday. Cracking pub where we were always made welcome.

[Padge]

9 hours ago, Futtocks said:

We had a leaving do or two at The Enterprise on Red Lion Street, also near Holborn. That usually had a reasonable range of beers and wasn't rammed too full of amateur drinkers at the end of the working day.

Know the Red Lion out that way, pub with door on the corner that is/was a nice little trad pub.

[Padge]

Demolished pub owners back in court after failing to rebuild the 18th Century building.

The Punch Bowl Inn, in Hurst Green, was bulldozed in June 2021.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24639218.punch-bowl-inn-owners-given-option-ribble-valley-rebuild/

With cases like this I would love to see them sent to jail until the rebuild is completed. I'll bet they would get a move on then.

[Jeff Stein]

Got the new CAMRA Good Beer Guide. The section on breweries which have closed over the last year is a bit depressing. Seems more than normal with quite a few big names included, although that may be through the Marstons tour of destruction (or tour of destruction of Marstons).

Three closed breweries this year, which I have fond memories of, are York (I know they have been in trouble for some time but always enjoyed going in on the away trip weekends when Skolars were playing there), Calvors (principally a proper lager brewery in Suffolk but did do some good cask ales as well) and White Horse (who were still in plenty of pubs in Oxford when I visited last year).

 

[Futtocks]

48 minutes ago, Jeff Stein said:

Got the new CAMRA Good Beer Guide. The section on breweries which have closed over the last year is a bit depressing. Seems more than normal with quite a few big names included, although that may be through the Marstons tour of destruction (or tour of destruction of Marstons).

Three closed breweries this year, which I have fond memories of, are York (I know they have been in trouble for some time but always enjoyed going in on the away trip weekends when Skolars were playing there), Calvors (principally a proper lager brewery in Suffolk but did do some good cask ales as well) and White Horse (who were still in plenty of pubs in Oxford when I visited last year).

Traditional breweries tend to be in big, expensive to run and maintain old buildings, while microbreweries can be set up in a rented shed on an industrial estate. I guess the overheads are tough to manage, especially if you're not a trendy name.

[Padge]

Wes Cotton to take over the Boathouse in Apply Bridge following a refurb.

https://www.lep.co.uk/news/i-used-to-play-for-the-wigan-warriors-but-now-im-helping-to-transform-this-much-loved-lancashire-pub-4827993?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawGAyRhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZHkUpDei8NhljkEYk4fEvzYtILUjN12p4gS5tLgmZeqI2XXFtPLSM7tlA_aem_ImJQEjlD5Uc9UQqSY74t5Q#Echobox=1729163689

Unfortunately owned by Star Pubs (Heineken)