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Tris39
19-11-2014, 19:19
Anyone else remember these beer ads from the early '70s and early '80s? The Whitbread Trophy ad is a scream which I remember as a boy in the early 1970s.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6n1hQdCdCP8

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zMFNh5wVLV8

Mobyduck
19-11-2014, 20:14
Anyone else remember these beer ads from the early '70s and early '80s? The Whitbread Trophy ad is a scream which I remember as a boy in the early 1970s.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6n1hQdCdCP8

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zMFNh5wVLV8
Great Ads, crap beer.

Aqualung
19-11-2014, 20:34
Anyone else remember these beer ads from the early '70s and early '80s? The Whitbread Trophy ad is a scream which I remember as a boy in the early 1970s.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6n1hQdCdCP8

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zMFNh5wVLV8


I don't remember the ads at all.
Tartan was completely different in England to Scotland. The Scottish version had some malt flavour, was almost certainly stronger and had very little if any hop character, it was referred to up there as a "pint of heavy". The English Tartan was very weak and insipid, in fact it was a complete joke.

I'm not sure what Whitbread Trophy was as their main keg brand was Whitbread Tankard. I have a very vague recollection that some Whitbread Trophy may have been top pressure cask from the local brewery rather than from the chemical plant in Luton.

Wittenden
19-11-2014, 21:11
I don't remember the ads at all.
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I'm not sure what Whitbread Trophy was as their main keg brand was Whitbread Tankard. I have a very vague recollection that some Whitbread Trophy may have been top pressure cask from the local brewery rather than from the chemical plant in Luton.

Trophy seemed to be the cooking bitter of whatever local brewery the good Colonel had put his umbrella over. In Kent it would have been Fremlins/George Beer and Rigden's and excellen, proper real ale.Can't speak for the rest of the country, but I think it was very variable. Rumour had it that pubs in different parts of Kent took Trophy that recreated beers from smaller breweries such as Tomson and Wotton,mCobbs or Mackeson, but I doubt it.

Maldenman
20-11-2014, 08:07
I bet Rowan Atkinson is so proud of that moment..........about 5.00 in the second link.