First Time Channel Passage Tips

[Daydream believer]

Many years ago when in the Round table we had a visit organised to the Inde Coupe brewerey in Romford. After the tour they served us with the beer & it was, without doubt, the best beer anyone had tasted. We all said that it was not what was sold in pubs. The guide insisted it was, but it deteriorated due to travel & the poor handling of the pubs. I did try the canned "Long Life" & that was just as crap then, as when bought off the shop shelves.

 

[johnalison]

Interesting (apart from the pickled egg LOL). The Burton Ale we used to get here (almost line-of-sight to Burton-on-Trent) always tasted like a bitter to me. But perhaps the distinction between a bitter and a pale ale are a bit arbitrary. It's all a good 30 years ago and how things have changed. Ind Coope/Bass are gone, sold to Coors. Coors themselves are only capable of making chilled rat's urine so Marstons used to contract brew Bass for them. Then some time ago Marstons sold off their brewing operations to Carslberg leaving just Burton Bridge Brewery (who recently combined with Heritage Brewery) as the only British-owned brewers in the town (unless there's some very small micro-brewery there that I've not heard of).

I never quite cottoned on to the difference between a light-ale and a pale-ale, neither of which I have seen for a good while. A light ale was always my preferred refreshment at the interval at a theatre or such event, being inexpensive and not overly alcoholic. Nowadays there is no such option other than some expensive foreign-branded lager brewed in Scunthorpe and the young don’t know what they are missing.

 

[Tradewinds]

I never quite cottoned on to the difference between a light-ale and a pale-ale, neither of which I have seen for a good while. A light ale was always my preferred refreshment at the interval at a theatre or such event, being inexpensive and not overly alcoholic. Nowadays there is no such option other than some expensive foreign-branded lager brewed in Scunthorpe and the young don’t know what they are missing.

I can recommend this brewer’s light ale.
https://www.green-jack.com/?pgid=lejrtpim-43f34048-e08c-4ac0-99e7-c9ed8916e7fb

 

[Daydream believer]

What happened to Brown & Mild?

 

[johnalison]

What happened to Brown & Mild?

Much the same way as light ale and bitter, though I have seen one or two at the club having something like it. They suit people who want a draught beer but with a bit of fizz, to help them belch I presume. Although I have always chosen bitter for preference, I see mild so seldom that I will tend to choose it, when occasionally it can be very good. In Ipswich when I worked there in the ‘60s, you didn’t ask for a mild, just for a ‘beer’ but the bitter had to be specified as such.