theghostofdustybin

Stop it. I had to wait in a queue for a pint the other day ffs...

mikesurf

queueing for a kiwi pint? things must be desperate

theghostofdustybin

no such thing as bad beer, just fussy expats..

RobDon

Caz8NZ

lardyl

"yeah right"

suppose if you were bought up on "muckee beaar" then anything will do

sirplug

Stop it!! You can't ridicule a 'Bottle of Dog!'

theghostofdustybin

You do realise amber ale was brewed for the ladies don't you?

lardyl

and I thought that they put it in the baby bottles in that part of the world? Or then the mammies just lactated it into their babies after it had passed the placenta for 9 months??

Not so bad for youse as the "dog". Sorry sir plug but never heard Amber Ale referred to as "dog"......

I take it that it's no longer brewed (well it wasn't when I applied for a job with Scottish & Newcastle in 91) and then I suppose there is less call for a ladies ale-related ward in the RVI?

the piccie was just like the one MrsL used to get Geordie kiddies to name and they always said "mucky beer".

theghostofdustybin

We used to bottle amber in 91 (that was the year I started working for them, maybe I got your job!). No surprise they stopped making it soon after though, watery rubbish that it was.

'Start em young, give em junior beer' as Viz rightly pointed out...

lardyl

haha could be confused - was only guessing the year based on other stuff, but couldn't have been later than 94, when I started kickin ash....
maybe I am confusing the brewery trips with the interviews.......LOL....had plenty (of both), but not many jobs going on the production side back then
or maybe just mesmerised by the tale of how they got the gap in the top of the Brown Ale bottle
had second interviews down at Camerons in Hartlepool, with Bass down in Birmingham and Carlesberg Tetley in Burton
most of the breweries where we would have been based are no more, so not a terrible loss.....
miss the "perks" mind

Mark Smith

mmm I could do a nice pint of Strongarm.

lardyl

sounds good but personally I fancy Banks' Bitter - Camerons were part of Wolverhampton and Dudley then - are they still now?
My FiL was a cooper at Hanson's in Dudley in the 60s, their last apprentice barrel maker.
Used to walk past that brewery on my way home from school - the smell of hops was fantastic.

Last I knew it was flatenned with an Aldi store on the site

BEVS

Yo'm can forget yo'm thanksess. Oi'd rather have a pint of Banksess.

First Wolvo phrase I ever learnt. I even had a t-shirt.

lardyl

bostin fettle