Tetley Bitter

[geoffb]

tyke bhoy wrote: A new brewery took over Double Maxim and Samson from Vaux http://www.doublemaxim.co.uk/Also Lambton's and Wards. The website says the renowned beer writer Roger Protz describes DM as a Brown Ale.Interestingly another brewery's beer has moved away from it's local roots. Pontefract's Tomlinsons brewery famed for liqourice beers http://liquoricebeer.com/index.php?f=data_home&a=1 now brews in the Highlands of Scotland at the Cairngorms brewery http://cairngormbrewery.com/ Well done tyke bhoy I forgot they bought out Wards, love the desciption of DMquote,Double Maxim was first brewed in 1901 and was initially called Maxim Ale. It was created to celebrate the return of the Maxim Gun detachment from the Boer War. Major Ernest Vaux – a member of the original brewing family – commanded the detachment which was part of the Northumberland Hussars. Soon after launch Maxim Ale was reduced in strength following complaints from landlords – their customers kept falling asleep!

[Si]

The Parksider wrote: Come on NAME THOSE TWO LAGERS....... Also, what ever happened to Oranjeboom (TV ad used a popular TV Dutch detective theme tune) and that pseudo-German stuff with the bear logo (Hollies tune?)    

[tyke bhoy]

Oranjeboom is still about. Van der Valk theme tune was Eye Level performed by the Simon Park OrchestraHofmiester (sp?) "If you want great lager follow the bear" Can't remember a Hollies tune with it though

[PJ]

''He ain't heavy . . . he's my brother . . . ''

[Si]

PJ wrote: ''He ain't heavy . . . he's my brother . . . '' That's the one. Some bloke in a pork pie hat carrying an old woman across the road.

[The Parksider]

uncle mick wrote: Heineken and Castlemaine XXXX ? Just drinking a Heineken over here in Thailand. PS No snow over here (Smiley) Yes Castlemaine XXXX - you win a ceegar.Let me know what letters the XXXX really stand forand I'll light it for you!!

[Si]

The Parksider wrote: uncle mick wrote: Heineken and Castlemaine XXXX ? Just drinking a Heineken over here in Thailand. PS No snow over here (Smiley) Yes Castlemaine XXXX - you win a ceegar.Let me know what letters the XXXX really stand forand I'll light it for you!! I know what I think the XXXX stands for! Is there still a virtual cigar up for grabs for the failed Dutch lager, Parksider? Not Oranjeboom, then?    

[geoffb]

Geordie-exile wrote: Barley wines now. There's a memory.I don't remember the Tetley's offering, but in The Fairway we used to drink Magnet Old, and in Whitbread pubs it was Gold Label. Firewater. Was ther a barley wine called OBJ, seem to remember it Oh Be Joyfull

[chemimike]

The origin of arctic ale is given at http://www.harwichcharterale.co.uk/arcticalestory.html. I tasted it a number of times in the early 1960s, when, apparently it was somewhat weaker than the original. For a cold winternight it was very nice. For some reason most British Rail bars stocked it (in the south anyway). Maybe it was counter the poor heating in the carriages.Hoffmeister was made by Courage. i think it must have been the first product from their "new" lager brewery in Reading - the same one as produced Fosters, so no wonder it was pretty awful

[Hats Off]

Whatever happened to the cans of Tetley mild that they used to sell ? It was of a similar style of package to the bitter ( with a widget ) but was in a cream/ yellow coloured can.Regards.