Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 12726566)

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....

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12726569)

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. :lol:
I remember oversize glasses appearing temporarily. Maybe you northerners had big hands. :p


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.

Originally Posted by sid nv (Post 12726617)

Whitbread Tankard, Watney's Red Barrel, Double Diamond, around 2 shillings a pint in the early 70's. Them were not the days.

Originally Posted by sid nv (Post 12726617)

Whitbread Tankard, Watney's Red Barrel, Double Diamond, around 2 shillings a pint in the early 70's. Them were not the days.

Originally Posted by Paul_Shepherd (Post 12726618)

Ruddles County....

Originally Posted by Oink (Post 12726655)

There seems to be a lot of rather distasteful stereotyping that borders on uncomfortablism. Just because people who live in "the south" don't go around shagging pit ponies and wearing ridiculously large flat caps while our 18 rickets and tuberculosis stricken children carry home a Hovis bread loaf for the village doesn't mean that we don't occasionally savour a nice glass or two of Bavarian pilsner .

Originally Posted by Oink (Post 12726655)

There seems to be a lot of rather distasteful stereotyping that borders on uncomfortablism. Just because people who live in "the south" don't go around shagging pit ponies and wearing ridiculously large flat caps while their 18 rickets and tuberculosis stricken children carry home a Hovis bread loaf for the village doesn't mean that we don't occasionally savour a nice glass or two of Bavarian pilsner .

Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian (Post 12726690)

:rofl: Well as a Northerner I don't feel insulted one bit as if asked to describe a person from Yorkshire I would have described them the same way but would have substituted the animal used for carnal pleasure.

Originally Posted by sid nv (Post 12726617)

Whitbread Tankard, Watney's Red Barrel, Double Diamond, around 2 shillings a pint in the early 70's. Them were not the days.

Originally Posted by sid nv (Post 12726617)

Whitbread Tankard, Watney's Red Barrel, Double Diamond, around 2 shillings a pint in the early 70's. Them were not the days.

Originally Posted by Oink (Post 12726655)

There seems to be a lot of rather distasteful stereotyping that borders on uncomfortablism. Just because people who live in "the south" don't go around shagging pit ponies and wearing ridiculously large flat caps while their 18 rickets and tuberculosis stricken children carry home a Hovis bread loaf for the village doesn't mean that we don't occasionally savour a nice glass or two of Bavarian pilsner .

Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12726742)

You southerners only wish you could live on Beasley Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37QUUwp9xIs

Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12726727)

(that advert is playing in my brain :D... and here it is!