Drinking Beer & Supporting City (Bring me sunshine & a beer)

Brewed at Banks's in Wolverhampton. I lived in Burton for a couple of years when I was working for Coors - formally Bass Brewers - and there was a definite split over Pedigree and Bass. Bass all day long for me. When it's on form, it's up there with Landlord in terms of drinkability. When I left Bass, the head brewer gave me a case of aged Worthington's White Shield. I've got one bottle left, and despite it having a best before date of 1996, I know it's too good to drink. Waiting for the ultimate special occasion!

 

Saltaire Unity. Become one of my favourites. Direct to your door from the brewery. Very nice.

 

Can we include wine in this?
Just taken delivery of some fantastic french sparkling, ready for gold cup day.....,
Will be back on the beer in time for the Oldham game tho!

 

Cheers to this!

 

Landlord doesn’t travel well . It’s fine in the Boltmakers Keighley

 

Do such people actually exist? Let us look down our long noses at them whilst enjoying some:

which, I can confirm from personal experience, is a nice ale indeed.

Certainly!

Yes, I'll drink to it too! How about some Lehe Suur India IPA?

RCB

 

Hey don’t scoff. The wife makes lots of wine, my favourite are strawberry, rose, elderberry, raspberry. It’s lovely stuff at 12%!

However for the absolute massif amongst us, home made flavoured gin. This is the real McCoy.
Strawberry, Rasberry and Sloe from the local hedgerows . Tastes wonderful with Fevertree About 20 bottles in various stages of readiness.

 

I've been the worse for wear at VP more times than I care to remember. When I was younger, match days would entail a minor pub crawl, starting at the Unicorn on Ivegate, visting various hostelries on the way and finishing at the Belle Vue. Then I'd consume a couple of Cornish pasties in the first half to mop up the remaining alcohol in my system.

These days, anything more than a pint before the game and I'm back and forth to inspect VP's plumbing throughout the first half. Can't remember the amount of goals and match changing incidents I've missed because of it. So I limit myself to one solitary pre match pint, when that would have been considered a mere appetizer when I was younger. Such are the joys of getting long in the tooth.

 

When I was at Bradford Uni in the early 80s we had Theakston's XB in the student bars and it was lovely stuff. I've always loved Taylor's beers.
London Pride is brewed to be served without a head! As are most southern beers. They do an excellent pint of it in the Parcel Yard at Kings Cross station. Young's Best Bitter was always a great pint in London.
Many beers don't travel well from South to North and vice versa. When I was a young man in my native Essex I absolutely loved Greene King Abbot Ale - gorgeous nutty flavour. I used to drink it at Chelmsford when watching Essex CCC. Whenever I've tried it in Yorkshire it's been terrible.

 

I grew up in Grays in Essex. It was an absolute beer desert in the early mid 70s, when my drinking days started - three quarters of the pubs in South Essex were owned by Bass Charringtons, but it was all keg pisswater - Worthington E & Charringtons IPA. The rest were either Watneys or Whitbread - disgusting keg Red Barrel and Trophy.
Then, around '77 the Monopolies Commission made Charringtons swap some pubs with a couple of other breweries who had monopolies in other counties. Suddenly we had Courage pubs - hand pulled Best, Directors and Castle Eden- and Shepard Neme. The new brews were very popular so Charringtons had to up their game to keep discerning drinkers in their pubs. Enter proper draught Bass Bitter - bliss! But, as you say, you don't see it much these days.

 

Quite simply...it helps to be pissed whilst watching City.

 

Home made flavoured gin you say?
Can I be your friend please?
Friends share gin you know....

 

I have actually recently liking red myself. Partial to a nice shiraz. On match day has to be a Heineken or Estrella though!

 

Sounds like a posh way o' sayin', "t'int ready yet"!

 

Not really a fan of gin but sloe gin is very dangerous, as in addictive! Thankfully it's a bit too rich for me to have more than a few glasses in any one session.

 

Drinking beer and supporting City Over the years been to some great pubs and dodgy pubs (Stoke City away) . Whalebone Pub Hull midweek game my mate knocking on the door 11 am . Corn Dolly great trips always welcomed when Andy pre books.
Sorry Andy Orient away is up there 7.09 train from Keighley don’t open bottles until outside L****s. Last time my Fenian friend wanted to go to the Blind Beggar, okay plenty of Lager for him. Back on tube I took him to the Palm Tree Mile End Park absolutely love that place plenty character and good beers.
Maybe next season retracing my steps . Garden Centre today with Mrs Rocket