Tetley's To Close?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 20 May, 2011 4:06 pm

One particular thing about Tetley's that I still miss is the sight of the Tetley wagons being pulled by the magnificent shire-horses.

majorhoundii · Post by **majorhoundii** » Sun 22 May, 2011 1:45 pm

The Parksider wrote: Uno Hoo wrote: dogduke wrote: PC - Dublin wrote: Hands off the Guinness !! It was brewed at Park Royalin London until about 2005 ! the real stuff in the bottle seems to have been phased out some years ago. A bottle of Guinness always used to be a reliable standby in days of largely keg-beer pubs, but quite frankly these days the stuff is blatantly trading on its past glories. Tetleys bottling department had a "guinness room" they imported so much of the stuff. Pre guinness keg I assume it was always sold in bottles??? In the past all the breweries bottled their own Guiness. There used to be a firm in Leeds called Brindleys who also bottled it in screw top pint bottles, the type with a red rubber gasket. It was always said by the Irish of my acquaintance (plenty of them in the construction industry) that the Guiness bottled by Whitbread was the best because it, (unlike the rest) came from Dublin.Certainly in the seventies you could rely on a bottle of either Guiness or White Shield for a yeast culture for home brewing. I seem to remember from when I first started drinking beer that Tetleys had a range of bottled beers. Pale Ale, Family Ale, Dinner Ale and a Barley wine. Presumably all gone now.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Mon 23 May, 2011 8:10 am

majorhoundii wrote: I seem to remember from when I first started drinking beer that Tetleys had a range of bottled beers. Pale Ale, Family Ale, Dinner Ale and a Barley wine. Presumably all gone now. I just remember the tall slim bottles of family ale (blue label) triple X (barley wine) and tetleys special pale ale (one of the worst beers in the world when this transferred to cans).Canning took over from bottling and that department closed about 1976, some years later deafness claims came rolling in from ex bottlers. They used lip reading and sign language in bottling. Today ear defenders are worn!I recall someone operating a guinness bottling distribution operation near the parish church - maybe hey & humphries.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Mon 23 May, 2011 2:08 pm

The Parksider wrote: majorhoundii wrote: I seem to remember from when I first started drinking beer that Tetleys had a range of bottled beers. Pale Ale, Family Ale, Dinner Ale and a Barley wine. Presumably all gone now. I just remember the tall slim bottles of family ale (blue label) triple X (barley wine) and tetleys special pale ale (one of the worst beers in the world when this transferred to cans).Canning took over from bottling and that department closed about 1976, some years later deafness claims came rolling in from ex bottlers. They used lip reading and sign language in bottling. Today ear defenders are worn!I recall someone operating a guinness bottling distribution operation near the parish church - maybe hey & humphries. My Grandma loved guiness but only the bottled stuff.She used to say the bottles with a little neck label "HH" was thebest - Hey and Humphries !

majorhoundii · Post by **majorhoundii** » Tue 24 May, 2011 10:46 pm

The Parksider wrote: majorhoundii wrote: I seem to remember from when I first started drinking beer that Tetleys had a range of bottled beers. Pale Ale, Family Ale, Dinner Ale and a Barley wine. Presumably all gone now. I just remember the tall slim bottles of family ale (blue label) triple X (barley wine) and tetleys special pale ale (one of the worst beers in the world when this transferred to cans).Canning took over from bottling and that department closed about 1976, some years later deafness claims came rolling in from ex bottlers. They used lip reading and sign language in bottling. Today ear defenders are worn!I recall someone operating a guinness bottling distribution operation near the parish church - maybe hey & humphries. You're probably right about Hey and Humphries - didn't they operate a pub on Vicar Lane - next to the Robin Hood? I seem to remember buying Tetleys Pale Ale in bottles later than 1976 - but I could be wrong. I used to alternate between that and John Smiths - hard to tell the difference. Same as the smooth stuff, I remember being in the Sycamore in Morley and the choice was either Tetleys or John Smiths smooth - couldn't tell the difference. The RLGF was on the big screen or I wouldn't have been in there!

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Tue 24 May, 2011 11:47 pm

majorhoundii wrote: [You're probably right about Hey and Humphries - didn't they operate a pub on Vicar Lane - next to the Robin Hood? Would that be The Nag's Head ??

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Wed 25 May, 2011 12:50 am

BLAKEY wrote: majorhoundii wrote: [You're probably right about Hey and Humphries - didn't they operate a pub on Vicar Lane - next to the Robin Hood? Would that be The Nag's Head ?? It was. We decided to do a pub crawl around the toughest Tetley pubs, white swan, scotsman, regent, Market etc aftr work. We'd all been issued with heavy navy blue waterproof coats at the brewery, when we walked in the Nags everyone seemed to go quiet so we had a pint and left quickly, afterwards we realised they must have thought we were coppers.I also had the idea hey and humphries had the odd pub, but not so sure as I remember "Musgrave and Sagar" having the Town Hall Tavern - didn't they bottle guinness????

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 25 May, 2011 12:15 pm

The Parksider wrote: I also had the idea hey and humphries had the odd pub, but not so sure as I remember "Musgrave and Sagar" having the Town Hall Tavern - didn't they bottle guinness???? Only a vague memory in part - Musgrave and Sagar definitely did own the Town Hall Tavern, and I'm almost sure that they owned two other pubs as well, but no idea which they were.

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Wed 25 May, 2011 1:07 pm

BLAKEY wrote: The Parksider wrote: I also had the idea hey and humphries had the odd pub, but not so sure as I remember "Musgrave and Sagar" having the Town Hall Tavern - didn't they bottle guinness???? Only a vague memory in part - Musgrave and Sagar definitely did own the Town Hall Tavern, and I'm almost sure that they owned two other pubs as well, but no idea which they were. Old Unicorn in Bramley was owned by Musgrave and Sagar

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Wed 25 May, 2011 8:31 pm

In this mornings YEP that the final brew at Tetleys was yesterday. Sadly I can't find it on-line - experience suggests it may appear later in the week.The article is (typically) poorly laid out and doesn't scan well, but it suggests that the final brew was actually Carlsberg lager, just to add insult to injury...