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Does what you chose as your go to ‘first regular pint’ indicate what age bracket you’re in. I’m 69 and it was Brains Dark when I first started pubbing it in the early 1970s. Everyone seemed to drink it before progressing to Brains Light a few years later. Been a bitter man since…..very bitter sometimes, very often when the final whistle blows!!!
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Brains dark/Kingpin
Newcastle Brown
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Brains Bitter / SA / HB
ploughed a lone furrow on the bitter for years while all my mates were drinking shite lagers.Comment
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Would that make you in your late 40s or 50s if lager was popular at the time?Originally posted by Rjk View PostComment
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I'm 46 and lager has generally been my pint, not shit like Carling but better brews.Originally posted by splott parker View PostComment
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That’s about what I imagined, a generation or so below me started on lager. I doubt there's many, if any on here to give us the 20 odd year old’s choice. Could be an alcopop type thing maybe.Originally posted by Eric the Half a Bee View PostComment
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My old man took me for my first pint. It was a Brains pub. I asked for lager. He gave me a dirty look and got me a pint of Dark. Loved it!
and drank that for yrs.
now I’ve reached 60, I don’t drink anywhere near as much when I was younger.
I now drink anything that takes my fancy on the day, from Guinness to Cider to malt whiskey to Jack D and coke, to lager to bitter.Comment
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They drink Cocktails now and put it on Instagram. If my old man had seen me drinking a Cocktail (Being on holiday would not be an excuse) He'd have never spoken to me again. I remember him getting shitty with me because i asked for a dash of lemonade in a pint of Bitter or Lager, i couldn't see his face, just his anger reverberating through his Sporting Life Paper.Originally posted by splott parker View PostComment
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Had my first pint of Brains dark when I was 15 in the Mitre in Llandaff. My beer of choice while I lived in Cardiff. I drink more wine now truth be told and the occasional 1/2 gallon of Guinness.Comment
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You Cardiffians don't know how lucky you were. Albright was about as good as it got up the Gwent valleys. Absolute shite.Comment
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Born 1954.
My first pint was Courage AK, circa 1969, during school lunchtime
I was soon introduced to Taunton Natural Dry.
Went through a lager stage at uni in Stafford, 'cos the local brew was shite; though often had Newcastle brown at gigs 'cos they never had enough glasses
Went back to bitter after uni, now I'm a bit of a "real ale snob", though still like cider (as dry as possible) on warm days.
Lager only really became popular during/after the "package holiday" era, when people wanted the same stuff they drank abroad, though it tended to be weaker in the UK.Comment
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I had the odd pint of bitter as a 16/17 year old in pubs in north Cheshire and south Manchester - but didn't have a regular brew until I moved to Bristol to go to college when I was 18.
Then it was 6X or Courage Best/Directors.
Until the great Courage brewery strike of 1980 when it was Felinfoel Double Dragon brought over the bridge to keep the Courage pubs open. It was only later that I realised I was helping to break a strike with every pint. My shame lasted years!
Always bitter for me. Something not right about lager drinking - unless it is just to cool down with fizzy piss on a hot day, and even then best to do it with the glass hidden in a paper bag.
I have just turned 65. Still drink bitter on some nights out - but more wine or whiskey these days.Comment
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First Pub was The Birchgrove in 1962 as it was nearest to me, later used the Masons in Whitchurch as beer was more palatable..Comment
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