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Black Sheep? Yum, Saltaire Blonde. Yum

Do they still brew these?

 

Nice! Thanks for the info

 

Still doing well for pubs/micro bars just down the road in Idle and Thackley.

 

The pub trade has had it nationally, its not just Bradford . Cheap supermarket deals don't help, people can not afford £3 a pint
although , stupidly i paid £5.50 for a can at odsal 80's weekend last friday, captive audience and all that.

 

Because the demographic hasn't changed down there yet. I say yet because it will do.

 

My mum lives in Wrose, it's changed a lot.

 

Malt Kiln is up for lease as well, think it is currently closed. Only pubs left are on the old crawl are Swing Gate and Lane Ends,

 

Has it closed? I thought it was still hanging on, although I don't know how.

 

Yes , going to be a mosque/education centre. Sycamore and the Prospect another couple in the area , both now children,s daycare. Glad i do not drink much these days.

 

Yep. One of the nurserys is doing well and the other started well but is going down hill rapidly since it was taken over by a larger chain.

 

Closed, sold, planning put in for change of use. Apparently the money to buy it was raised in a month from donations.

 

Wow ,is that right. Living near the bottom of Kings Rd then High House some of those were my locals, plus the Malt Kiln and the mates at work “ lived” in the 7 Stars and Roebuck, so visited them often!

 

https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/yorkshire/bradford.html

 

Spent a fair bit of time in Robin Hood with my father in law to be around 2000s

£20k a year rent

https://www.admiraltaverns.co.uk/pubs/malt-kiln/

 

Blimey, some right pubs there, sad to see them go, had my first drink in the Fire Brigade, also a lot of time spent in The White Horse up Great Horton Road, then moved to Undercliffe and was almost a permanent fixture in the Hare & Hounds/Malt Kiln, also spent hours in the

 

Used to go to the Smiling Mule with father in law to be but then him and friends moved pubs after Steve, landlord at Mule, passed away.

 

Came back from Uni for his funeral

 

The Washington was the odd-shaped pub behind the Beehive.

 

I must admit I do enjoy a blonde (behave). A friend of mine brewed one and it was a cracking pint. Also did a Helles lager which was very nice. Same lad also got a crate of lager from Saltaire brewery after he questioned some bottles he'd got from them. He showed me all three bottle and each one had a different look when poured even though they were all the same. To be be fair he's very good at it, got his cellar all kitted out, even designed his own bottle washer.

 

I enjoy the Blonde…it’s nice. We had a guest Saltaire brew at our village Beer Festival before the pandemic. Got a pint….boy was it nice, went back for another , a pint later and the barrel had sold out. Grrrrrr!