Paul_Shepherd

I think if I am going for a no/low alcohol beer and Im just having the one....Id prefer to go for a radler.... more tasty and more refreshing.. there are some nice ones around now. Great after cutting the grass! back in the days, when I had a lawn to cut....I guess I shouldn't complain. But I enjoy a radler on a hot and thirsty day.

BristolUK

Calling FL for some quip about southern softie shandy drinkers

Paul_Shepherd

LOL Hmm....to that I reply with the saying "people in glass houses......." and all that.

In my younger days before I had credible ale reputation, we used to get invloved in the "POWER shandy" drinking challenge, which is half a pint of generic lager topped up with a Smirnoff Ice cooler, or alcopop as they call them in the UK.... we used to call it being "iced" and you were expected to drink it in one go as a result of losing a bet. They were not for the softie faint hearted..... Foolish but fun days. ahhh sigh.....

magnumpi

scrubbedexpat134

I bet you checked out the Guitar on the top shelf, What is it?

Almost Canadian

Godin?

magnumpi

scrubbedexpat134

That guitar is too nice to be sat on a shelf in a pub, deserves to be played. worth a bob or two as well.

Oink

Clearly your name is Trevor and you drive a company saloon car.

Former Lancastrian

It is really hard to compose a sentence if asked to use beer and Southerner in that sentence without insulting the Southerner. They should stick to their Pimms and Campari and leave the beer for proper men.

Paul_Shepherd

Yeah remember Courage..... you needed Courage to drink it....that said they did get their act together into the 90s and that Directors Bitter wasn't a bad drink if I remember right...mind you things have evolved even more since then with ,many of the small locally based micro breweries producing a far superior beer. If I tried Directors now my reaction would probably rather meh!

Everything goes in cycles....I remember the biggest brewery where I grew up was the Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries (Banks's and Hanson's) crappy beer in the 60s and 70s....in the 80s and 90s it was the best beer in the area....they produced some great limited edition beers too, then early 2000s they merged with Marston's and its never been the same since....it doesnt have the flavour it once had....just bland, I guess the accountants got involved with money saving ideas, not realising that they are changing the very thing that makes the money, the winning recipe or brewing method and you end up with something very bland.

Talking of southerners and beer, why did they always drink beer with no head...in "exact pint" glasses, it always seemed like a different world down there.

Atlantic Xpat

Courage Best, 75p a pint / Directors 85p a pint, in the Student Union Bar at Plymouth Poly in the late 80's. Them were the days....

Paul_Shepherd

Thats pricey! "Southern" prices! lol I remember my parents pub in the mid 80s.... a Hanson's pub of course...Hanson's mild 54p Hanson's bitter 57p.... too bad I was too young to drink then! I remeber my Dad being disgruntled at having to pay a pound a pint during a family weekend in London around that time! If only!

BristolUK

I think that depended on how good the landlord was.
Our local' s bitter was pretty good and the best was even better. Then Directors came along and it was very good but pricey. I had the feeling that the landlord deliberately let the quality of the others go so he could sell the more expensive one. But then he stopped caring and the Directors went downhill.

We stopped going and went into town instead for Ruddles County, Marstons Pedigree, Burton, something called 1057 I think, Royal Oak and so on.
Depends on the beer. More head, less beer.
I remember oversize glasses appearing temporarily. Maybe you northerners had big hands.

I remember going into a pub near Preston railway station in 1980. Two pints and two ploughman's and having change from a quid. I don't remember Bristol prices then but there wouldn't have been much change with just the beer.

Mind you, the ploughman's came with ordinary sliced bread which was a bit disappointing.

Partially discharged

Does a Jetta (aka a Vento) that I write off the mileage on for tax purposes count Manual transmission version so not as easy to drink a Kenko coffee and a muffin while on a sales conference call at the same time