Tetley's To Close?

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 9:41 am

simonm wrote: imho, Tetley's death throes are at an end. The only thing remotely Tetleys, is the name. Yesterday I passed the Malthouse on Chadwick Street, superbly preserved and rennovated, then over the road past Chadwick House a super georgian building Tetley's would have pulled down (not the Danes either).If I was in control on the council I'd only allow the land to be used for flats and housing if something was preserved.The old office block is actually quite magnificent inside with a real old classy lift and some classy offices which have been altered a bit but could soon be taken back to their original style. Maybe some organisation could use that. Directly behind is the oldest bit of the brewery in the ferementing block where the Yorkshire squares are, in the same block is the cellars. An imaginative design could combine a microbrewery, a local pub, an eaterie and a small museum dedicated to Leeds and district breweries and pubs, whose entry fee could augment the business.We can put it on the tour itinerary (Midnight Bell, Cross keys, Grove and Tetley's finish at the palace bus home etc)

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 10:41 am

Unfortunately Parksider I don't think opening it up to beyond Tetley's memorobilia would make a museum any more successful than the one that failed at Brewery Wharfe. I think most of the rest is a good idea though.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 12:48 pm

This Tetley thing really is depressing. I went for a job there in the office about 1963. It was an ornate office building. Tetleys is a Leeds icon, like the Town Hall, surely the council and the MP's could put up more of a fight than they are doing. Tetleys for gods sake.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 7:48 pm

tyke bhoy wrote: Unfortunately Parksider I don't think opening it up to beyond Tetley's memorobilia would make a museum any more successful than the one that failed at Brewery Wharfe. I think most of the rest is a good idea though. It wasn't a static museum - it was a series of pubs through the ages with actors and it was horses and horse displays. The overheads were large and cut into the mercenaries profits.A static display of artefacts and info boards can be as small and cheap as you want. the stuff is there as one of the managers collected it over the years.......

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 02 Mar, 2010 11:48 am

They'll need a long pipe from that bore-hole:http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 6115130.jp

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Tue 02 Mar, 2010 12:11 pm

As a general rule I'm not keen on any of Marston's beers. I know they brew cask beer, I know they use the Burton Union system. I know they are committed to cask beer. But I'm sorry I don't like the taste - and it seems to have a nasty aftertaste.Having said that Tetleys cask doesn't taste anything like it used to taste. It's ok but it doesn't have the depth of flavour, and aroma that it had in the seventies and eighties. I used to live at West Ardsley and the Hare and Hounds was in the Good Beer Guide and he really did keep an excellent pint of both cask bitter and mild. I had two and a half pints of Tetleys cask bitter at the New Inn - back of Denby Dale Road in Durkar Wakefield, the first Tetleys cask I've had for a long time last week and was very disappointed. The mild was available as a cask beer at the Top 'oil Churwell when I was in there last autumn and was very acceptable.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 02 Mar, 2010 8:16 pm

chameleon wrote: They'll need a long pipe from that bore-hole:http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 6115130.jp So cask Tet's is to be brewed in Wolverhampton, whilst the smooth stuff is to be manufactured (not brewed) at Tadcaster, by "Molson Coors", the well known Yorkshire brewing concern....What a sad end for a once iconic Yorkshire beer. That YEP piece is more than a bit naughty as it refers to someone who clearly works for Carlsberg as the 'head of the Leeds Brewery'. I wonder what the real Leeds Brewery will have to say about that.More shoddy journalism (if you can call cutting and pasting a press release as journalism).A poor decision, poorly executed to the very end.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Tue 02 Mar, 2010 9:26 pm

Well I for one am for boycotting the stuff from now.

PC - Dublin · Post by **PC - Dublin** » Tue 02 Mar, 2010 11:37 pm

Here today.... gone tomorrow ?

Post by **cnosni** » Wed 03 Mar, 2010 12:35 am

Trojan wrote: As a general rule I'm not keen on any of Marston's beers. I know they brew cask beer, I know they use the Burton Union system. I know they are committed to cask beer. But I'm sorry I don't like the taste - and it seems to have a nasty aftertaste. Old Empire does it for me,but definitely not Pedigree an O'wd Roger will kill you,if not by alcohol content then by after taste.