Forgotten Beers

[warsaw]

Just thinking about all of those wonderful beers that have passed into history. How about........

DOUBLE DIAMOND!

Any more?

 

[csider]

SKOL, still see in one or two offies.

WATNEYS, remember havng the red barrell keyring as a boy, seem to remember it even had a stopper on it where you would put water in it??

 

[Eric Potts]

Whitbread 'Big Head' Trophy Bitter
"The pint that thinks it's a quart"

It was crap as well

 

[The Large One]

The three or four I was told I had on Saturday after about 9.30, but have no recollection of.

 

[house your seagull]

from the bbc article 'nobody wants to follow the bear anymore'

 

[desprateseagull]

hofmeister, with the 'follow the bear' adverts? didnt drink the stuff mind..

 

[vulture]

kestrel

 

[warsaw]

Anybody remember Tamplins, weren't they a Brighton brewery? I have a vague recollection that the North Stand had a Tamplins sign along the roof in the 60's?

 

[binky]

Ben Truman.

My first pint.

 

[Cian]

Breo (if you even had that in the UK). Can't remember where I saw a tap head for it recently, obviously nothing attached to the line.

 

[warsaw]

Just wondering how many breweries have disappeared over the years either swallowed up by bigger players or just gave up. Perhaps someone could attempt a 'family tree' of breweries.

 

[Questions]

Ben Truman.

My first pint.

''You can taste the hops in Ben Truman''


Bollox could you...........

 

[Questions]

Anybody remember Tamplins, weren't they a Brighton brewery? I have a vague recollection that the North Stand had a Tamplins sign along the roof in the 60's?

They got bought out by Grand Met or Watneys I think in the late seventies or early eighties.
I remember Tamplins real ale being sold in the Watneys pubs and it was along with Triumph Stag possibly the worst beer I have ever tasted.



Then there was Watneys Red Barrel................ Oh dear.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Tamplins was taken over by Watneys sometime in the sixties. You can still see some of their livery on pubs in the area - perhaps the best example is on The Victory Inn in Duke Street

 

[sod1]

i remember they had a big promotion on Oranjeboom and it was sold in "coasters" (remember that place) ,i dont see it very often now

 

[sod1]

around 1984/5 they had a big promotion on oranjeeboom, it used to be sold in "coasters nightclub" (remember that place), i dont see it sold at many places now though

 

[Arthur]

around 1984/5 they had a big promotion on oranjeeboom, it used to be sold in "coasters nightclub" (remember that place), i dont see it sold at many places now though

You clearly (very wisely) don't drink in any of Shepherd Neame's pubs then.

 

[The Large One]

You clearly (very wisely) don't drink in any of Shepherd Neame's pubs then.

Correct - The Dover Castle, The Northern, The Regency, The Caxton Arms to name but fawa.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

oranjeboom gives me chronic shits

 

[The Auditor]

You clearly (very wisely) don't drink in any of Shepherd Neame's pubs then.

I remember this quote from a bog wall

If the bottoms fallen out of your world have a pint of Sheps and watch the world fall out of your bottom