tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post3946299576085529100..comments2024-03-28T12:16:58.318+00:00Comments on Paul's Beer & Travel Blog: Road to DamascusPaul Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-13775805282072233232018-08-14T10:14:31.537+01:002018-08-14T10:14:31.537+01:00Hello,
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It takes only a couple of minutes.<br /><br />Best regards,<br />Sergey Kulpin<br />Affiliate Marketing Manager<br /><br />Discover Car Hire Ltd.<br />Email: sergey.kulpin@discovercarhire.comAlex Yanukovskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05747486783386098991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-6440742415909775412018-07-30T21:06:46.286+01:002018-07-30T21:06:46.286+01:00Russ, I received some criticism the last time I us...Russ, I received some criticism the last time I used the term a “Wet weekend in Bognor.” I could have used plenty of other coastal locations, but the saying refers to the fact that whilst pleasant enough places to spend a few days, or even a slightly longer break, there’s nothing worse than a British seaside town when it’s blowing a gale and lashing down with rain.<br /><br />Boak and Bailey might well be correct in their assertion about seven steps on the road to beer appreciation, but I think your assumption that they may have been referring to beer geekery instead, is nearer the mark! I think there is a strong tendency to over analyse things in general and beer in particular, but to their credit, B&B admit to being geeks; so full marks for honesty.<br /><br />ETU, beer in the Union Bar at Salford was also was 13p a pint; nearly three bob as you so rightly point out! I wonder who started that story about the “recovery ward” for Broon Ale drinkers, as it certainly seems to have done the rounds, and over a wide geographical area as well, as you and Ed have both recounted.<br /><br />I remember reading how legendary Geordie folk-rockers Lindisfarne, hated the stuff. Tour promoters assumed that because the band were from Newcastle they would be fans of the town’s Brown Ale. Much to the group’s disgust, they would regularly find several crates of the beer left in their dressing room. They were actually avid cask ale drinkers!<br /><br />Matt, I love your reference to “old man’s pubs,” as that was the same term my Sixth Form friends and I used. We sometimes went a stage further and referred to them as “muck pits!” <br /><br />My own attachment was also to bitter, as opposed to mild or lager, although after my keg infatuation, I soon learned how to distinguish the real thing. After that I never really looked back – but that’s for next time. <br /><br /><br />Paul Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-89860430341758940802018-07-30T10:08:48.422+01:002018-07-30T10:08:48.422+01:00This rings a few bells with me. The first draught ...This rings a few bells with me. The first draught beer I drank regularly was halves of Greenall Whitley's keg bitter, as a 16 year old in the local Labour club which, like the brewery that supplied it, is now long gone. Around 18, I moved on to drinking in a large Whitbread house, where most of my mates from Sixth Form had started going at weekends, which served keg Trophy bitter. Shortly after that, we also started occasionally poppinf into the "old man's pub" down the road from it which had cask Holt's bitter.<br /><br />The point is that my attachement as a teenage drinker was to bitter, whether cask or keg, rather than to "real ale", a term I was only vaguely aware of, and then only through hearing disparaging sterotypes about CAMRA members. When I went to Staffs Poly in Stoke in the early 90's, I drank cask Banks's, Bass and Pedigree bitter in pubs around the city, and keg Worthington's (also in toughened platic glasses) in the students' union, although I remember quite a few people there still drinking bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale (a craze which I think has since died out). It was only really in my mid-twenties that I began to favour cask over keg bitter, first in pubs and then a bit later at beer festivals, and only in my mid-thirties that I finally got round to joining CAMRA.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387170913578542671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-47153494033492711372018-07-29T11:08:33.070+01:002018-07-29T11:08:33.070+01:00Ha! I was also told about the special ward for New...Ha! I was also told about the special ward for Newky Brown drinkers! This was by some geordies too. Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-27713910348361961582018-07-29T10:54:44.984+01:002018-07-29T10:54:44.984+01:00There's so much in that, which chimes in with ...There's so much in that, which chimes in with my own memories Paul.<br /><br />I was staying in Ifor Evans hall, in Camden Town during my first year at university in the early 1970s. About twenty metres around the corridor on my floor was the bar, which always seemed to be playing Pink Floyd.<br /><br />On tap was Newcastle Exhibition (or "Execution" as we called it). That was thirteen pence a pint as I recall. Newcastle Amber in bottle was fifteen pence and Newcastle Brown was eighteen (why, that was over three shillings). I couldn't say, as to the extent to which the bar might have been subsidised by the Students' Union etc., but Exhibition was my occasional pint there. My conversion had to wait a couple of years too.<br /><br />The laugh-out-loud moment for me was when I read you description of the solemn warning that you had been given, about the specialist, dedicated ward in Newcastle for the victims of Broon Eel. It was almost word-for-word identical to the one given to me under similar circumstance.<br /><br />I wonder what the truth was?<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />EEtunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-33195061857057318722018-07-29T05:59:47.549+01:002018-07-29T05:59:47.549+01:00"with all the appeal of a wet weekend in Bogn..."with all the appeal of a wet weekend in Bognor."<br /><br />Even I know that's not good! :)<br /><br />"but they were served too cold, were lacking in flavour and were often far too gassy."<br /><br />Thus heralding the coming of lager no doubt. ;)<br /><br />"(probably because it was too distinctive and too bitter), "<br /><br />It takes awhile to acquire good taste. :)<br /><br />"Although naive, I wasn't that gullible, "<br /><br />I should hope not!<br /><br />"Slowly, but surely, I began switching my allegiance back to bitter."<br /><br />And still there I take it. :)<br /><br />"Next time I will describe my "epiphany moment"<br /><br />I think it was Boak and Bailey who said there are 7 steps on the road to beer appreciation (they may have said something like beer geekery). Personally, I think it's something that's constantly evolving. I became a Guinness drinker some time back in the 90's and that lasted until around 2012. I got caught up in the IPA craze but have slowly moved back, more or less, to bitter. But I can't guarantee it will always be that way.<br /><br />Looking forward to the "great reveal". :)<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />PS - "It was on sold in half-pint bottles,"<br /><br />I think you mean 'only' sold.Russtovichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11493687426847380993noreply@blogger.com