Alcohol Age Indicator

[superfeathers]

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Im not sure if it’s an age or location thing?
Never saw Brains when I was growing up (gwent valleys).
It was a choice of Bow or Carling

[splott parker]

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Worked behind a bar in a social club as a 15 year old, wouldn't be allowed to do that now.

Tap beer as my memory tells me was Allbright, PA (Welsh Brewers), Hancock, Brains Dark and SA.

Lager Hemeling, Tuborg and Tennants Extra.

Cider, Strongbow and Old English.

Special mention to the promotion night Brains put on for Hurlimanns. Great night but the amount of near marriage break ups and spike in domestic abuse (women towards their husbands) ensured the rep was informed it wasn't going on the bar full time.

Halcyon days.

They had Hurlimans over St Albans Club, known as Hooligans, it wasn’t there long.

[splott parker]

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My old man reckoned draught Bass was marvellous for preventing coughs, as in you daren’t cough, you’d shit yourself.

[William Treseder]

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Anyone remember a really strong lager they used to sell in some boozers in town called Orangeboom?
Knock your socks off.

[poc]

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Tennant's Extra on Tap. Good grief...

it wasnt that strong not like tennants super

[bobh]

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it wasnt that strong not like tennants super

Thst was like drinking fizzy treacle. (ditto Carling Special Brew)

[G rangetown Blue]

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Started off (@15) on Lager n Lime…”progressed” to Lager with a dash, and then Lager ‘straight’ !

Now like a Guinness or Cider when I’m out, and little bottles of lagers, and red wine, when I’m in the ‘owse.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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it wasnt that strong not like tennants super

Tennant's Super - its alcohol volume ranged from 7.5% to 9%.
I didn't like the taste but it certainly carried a kick!

[the other bob wilson]

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I can pin my first experience of beer (as opposed to shandy) down to an exact day - the day of the Investiture of Charles as Prince of Wales in 1969. My Dad won a bottle of Mackeson at the fete held at Pentrebane school and handed it to me with the words “have your first taste of beer”. No doubt he hoped it would put me off beer for life - it was awful, but it only put the thirteen and a half years old me off it for a couple of years.

I had to have something to take away the taste of the beer though and, for reasons I cannot begin to fathom now, my first regular pint was Courage IPA with a dash of lime in the Quarry.

Once I discovered Brains beers though I soon went down the route a few others on here did as I graduated on to Dark, then SA for a short while and then Bitter which was my regular drink for about forty years until I had to go on Warfarin. Now, my attitude is Ill have a beer if and when I fancy one, but, in truth, I’m near as damnit tea total - I had my last beer about a year ago, a can of Boddingtons (always liked pints like that, Tetleys, Fullers, Felinfoel etc) which I must admit I was pretty disappointed with.

[mrbluejay]

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No ones mentioned a “Brown Top”

Also, who remembers the pint bottles of Brains Brown, used to drink it if the Dark was off

I absolutely loved a brown top, is there anywhere in Canton that has Manns these days, would love to go back on it regularly.

[Jordi Culé]

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it wasnt that strong not like tennants super

At that time I think the abv was 5% (ish), that and the Tuborg on draught was the loopers choice of lager.

Tennants 'super', absolutely lethal stuff, tasted like petrol, probably could've been used as a tool for euthanasia.

[BLUETIT]

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I absolutely loved a brown top, is there anywhere in Canton that has Manns these days, would love to go back on it regularly.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manns-Original-Brown-275ml-Bottles/dp/B00XPEIJKQ

[light up the darkness]

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At the Cowbridge road end of Wyndham Crescent at the entrance to what is now a car park was a pub I think it was called the Crown. There was a sliding window near the door to the rear bar. Barman couldn’t even see your face. Brains bitter was the only drink I could think of

[BLUETIT]

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At the Cowbridge road end of Wyndham Crescent at the entrance to what is now a car park was a pub I think it was called the Crown. There was a sliding window near the door to the rear bar. Barman couldn’t even see your face. Brains bitter was the only drink I could think of

Ken Harrington’s pub

[stevo]

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SA / Brains bitter was my first pint of choice. I’m 52.
Discovered whisky when I turned 50.