Beer?

[User482]

Well I have no reference but it was slightly too bitter for my tastes but not unpleasant. I would probably have tried a different one if I'd gone for no2. Boddingtons is a bit rubbish in comparison I'd say.

My recollection is that it was pretty rank, but at about £1.20 a pint, beggars can't be choosers. Boddies cask (at that time) was a far superior pint.

Does cask Boddies even exist any more? Mind you it'll still be shite.

I don't think so. The Strangeways brewery was closed over ten years ago, and they moved production to Hydes brewery. Google tells me it's no longer made. My sister ran a pub in Manchester at the time and had to stop selling it after the move because they had so many complaints about it.

ETA: Google says the canned beer is still made at Salmesbury by InBev though I remember seeing it on the production line at Magor brewery in south Wales, this would've been around 2002 when I was working for one of their suppliers. Come on the Bristol-Barry Island night ride and you'll get to smell it...

 

[Crackle]

Boddies cask (at that time) was a far superior pint

It's a while since I've had Boddies cask and I don't remember it but the Holts was definitely not rank.

 

[Haitch]

Boddies cask (at that time) was a far superior pint.

Now when I were a lad and everyone swore they'd stop drinking if a pint went up to 50p (which it duly did and everyone duly didn't), the ranking was Boddies by a country mile, Robinson's and a long, long, long way behind Hydes Anvil. Greenhall's and Holts barely got a look in.

 

[User482]

We chose our wedding venue on the strength that the cask Boddies was good.*

* Now divorced. She never did like beer.

Our wedding venue was BYO so they arranged for a local pub to provide a bar. Sadly, I failed to supervise arrangements with my usual rigour, so we ended up with Arkells 3B.

 

[Haitch]

We didn't have a wedding but we did have a housewarming so we ordered some barrels and pumps from the brewery in town. In between enquiring and receiving the price went up 40%! Barstewards indeed.

 

[srw]

Church hall*. Oddbins. Hours of fun tasting.



*OK. Mediaeval Old Library.

 

[subaqua]

Greenhalls was utter pish . All of it .

 

[MossCommuter]

Greenhalls was utter pish . All of it .

There was a time when you would walk into many pubs to find 12 different fizzy lagers, Guinness, three fizzy ciders, even stuff like Hooper's Hooch on draft and you would jump at the chance of a Greenhall's (or any of the other breweries mentioned recently). We're just spoiled now.

Besides, I quite liked Greenhall's Original.

 

[nickyboy]

Now when I were a lad and everyone swore they'd stop drinking if a pint went up to 50p (which it duly did and everyone duly didn't), the ranking was Boddies by a country mile, Robinson's and a long, long, long way behind Hydes Anvil. Greenhall's and Holts barely got a look in.

Yup, Boddies was the gold standard by which others were judged when I commenced my drinking apprenticeship in Lancaster. I forget the middle ground but Mitchells, the local stuff was definitely at the bottom. My Dad would refuse to go in a Mitchells pub, and he liked pubs

 

[subaqua]

There was a time when you would walk into many pubs to find 12 different fizzy lagers, Guinness, three fizzy ciders, even stuff like Hooper's Hooch on draft and you would jump at the chance of a Greenhall's (or any of the other breweries mentioned recently). We're just spoiled now.

Besides, I quite liked Greenhall's Original.

Nah . It was pish . Wm Youngers bitter. Or Tetley . Were my preferred ones. Even John Smiths .

Stones was bearable at a push

 

[MossCommuter]

Nah . It was pish . Wm Youngers bitter. Or Tetley . Were my preferred ones. Even John Smiths .

Stones was bearable at a push

Tetley's ftw

 

[User482]

Yup, Boddies was the gold standard by which others were judged when I commenced my drinking apprenticeship in Lancaster. I forget the middle ground but Mitchells, the local stuff was definitely at the bottom. My Dad would refuse to go in a Mitchells pub, and he liked pubs

Mitchells was even worse than Holts!

 

[subaqua]

Tetley's ftw

Best pint I ever had was in Headingley . A little boozer on a corner. Was like drinking heaven

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Oh the irony! I have spent the last few days in Scotland. Not only did the pub have no proper hand pulled beer, they had no local stuff in bottles either. To compound matters I couldn't even have a Guinness as they hadn't got any due to an order mix up. No wonder @Marmion can be prone to a little grumpiness at times!

I have had to return south to enjoy Scotland in a glass.

 

[theclaud]

It's a 6% dark bitter which is astonishingly anaemic - it tastes as if they've forgotten to include any hops at all.

Sounds right up your alley!