Now who remembers the old bottle-conditioned Guinness? That kept me (relatively) happy in many a fizz bar in the old days.
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Now who remembers the old bottle-conditioned Guinness? That kept me (relatively) happy in many a fizz bar in the old days.
My first mrs regularly got drunk on it in the 80s and 90s. Came in two versions...Dublin bottled or London Bottled..but I think all brewed in Dublin. Lets just say the road trip in a tanker did little to improve its taste. The Dublin bottle tasted better.
The bottles were often long lived if sales at the pub were small and the licencee poor at stock control. Some I have seen were as much as five years out of date. Doubt it could happen now with computerised systems.
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I still bottle and crown cork old Guinness bottles these were all returnable and had a sediment at the bottom,the Guinness tasted really nice with lots of taste to it.
These bottles of Guinness were not just bottled in London or Dublin,Guinness subcontracted bottleing out to small brewerys and bottlers i have got Guinness bottles bottled by Skinners and Rooks of Eastwood,Holdens Brewery,ABC brewery these are a few that i can remember.:drinkup::bemerry:
I do admit to my memory being a bit faulty. Come to think about it I sort of remember labels mentioning West Country and even Jersey. But only available locally in those areas. Must have been the reason you saw the distinctive tankers around the place. Thanks Al for tripping the greycells.