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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!!!
Brains dark/Kingpin
Newcastle Brown
SA
Cider since being diagnosed coeliac
Brains Bitter / SA / HB
ploughed a lone furrow on the bitter for years while all my mates were drinking shite lagers.
Would that make you in your late 40s or 50s if lager was popular at the time?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
I know you’re in your mid 30s:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
I'm 46 and lager has generally been my pint, not shit like Carling but better brews.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
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.
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Originally Posted by splott parker
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
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.
You Cardiffians don't know how lucky you were. Albright was about as good as it got up the Gwent valleys. Absolute shite.
Born 1954.
My first pint was Courage AK, circa 1969, during school lunchtime :hide:
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.
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.
First Pub was The Birchgrove in 1962 as it was nearest to me, later used the Masons in Whitchurch as beer was more palatable..
Skull Attack, 15 pints.
At what age?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
When I was working, a guy came down here from London for a course.
He was warned about SA, thought he'd try it.
Very nice, he said after a few pints, but what's the fuss about?
Then he went out side and the air hit him, luckily the wall stopped him hitting the pavement.
Good man!Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Lager is served cold to numb your taste buds so you can't tell how shit it tastes.
Ah, Allbright, the driving man’s beer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin Friday's Ghost
Mead .
Never really been a Brains lover.
First pint in a pub was Carling, but used to mostly drink Hancocks HB. My uni years were mainly Ruddles County, Abbot Ale and Old Peculiar. Still prefer Ale but will also dabble in decent Belgian lagers especially in the summer.
I don't know anyone my age (28) or below who drinks cocktails regularly, if at all. Have you possibly seen a few people do this and decide an entire demographic must do the same?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Lager and IPA are the main choices of the 20somethings. Though Guinness has had a massive renaissance in the last few years.
I've actually not seen anyone drink a Cocktail, ever. I was lust trying to get involved in the thread really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Der Kaiser
Cock & bull tale then:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Rough cider straight out of the barrel. We used to help the landlord lift it onto a wooden stand, then he’d knock the tap in. He’d let us have the first pint for free, which was nicknamed Sandy Bottoms, as it was basically all sediment. Lager wasn’t a thing in local pubs, only cider or bitter.
My old man drank Mackeson out of a can all of his life!
The very first alcohol free beer 🤣Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
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.
No ones mentioned a “Brown Top”
Also, who remembers the pint bottles of Brains Brown, used to drink it if the Dark was off
Tennant's Extra on Tap. Good grief...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
yeah IPA is everywhere these days, the problem is most of it is utterly shite, it's actually harder to get a decent pint of beer in a lot of places than back when everywhere sold lager.Quote:
Originally Posted by Der Kaiser
they all use far too much citrus hops, it tastes like drinking a pint of grapefruit juice
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
They had Hurlimans over St Albans Club, known as Hooligans, it wasn’t there long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
My old man reckoned draught Bass was marvellous for preventing coughs, as in you daren’t cough, you’d shit yourself.
Anyone remember a really strong lager they used to sell in some boozers in town called Orangeboom?
Knock your socks off.
it wasnt that strong not like tennants superQuote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Thst was like drinking fizzy treacle. (ditto Carling Special Brew)Quote:
Originally Posted by poc
Started off (@15) on Lager n Lime…”progressed” to Lager with a dash, and then Lager ‘straight’ ! :biggrin:
Now like a Guinness or Cider when I’m out, and little bottles of lagers, and red wine, when I’m in the ‘owse.
Tennant's Super - its alcohol volume ranged from 7.5% to 9%.Quote:
Originally Posted by poc
I didn't like the taste but it certainly carried a kick!
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.
I absolutely loved a brown top, is there anywhere in Canton that has Manns these days, would love to go back on it regularly.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT