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[Farway]

Ah yes, I recall reading about it in Pete Brown's 'Man walks into a Pub...'
Some of the iron hoops holding the massive vats were > 2 tons each iirc, and breweries vied for the biggest vats, one holding a dinner dance for 100(?) people inside one (before use...).
One shouldn't make light of folk drowning in beer but, hey, you've got to go somehow..!

No idea if true, but it was always said someone drowned in the Gales brew tank, when I told the ex he got out for a pee she failed to see the joke

[oldboots]

No idea if true, but it was always said someone drowned in the Gales brew tank, when I told the ex he got out for a pee she failed to see the joke

yes it's true; I was shown the very fermentation vat where it happened on a tour of the brewery about 1983, apparently the head brewer of the day (1920s?) committed suicide by drowning in it.

Slightly similar to the old story about how they invented porter but that's not a politically correct story anymore

[Soup Dragon]

the head brewer of the day (1920s?) committed suicide by drowning in it.

If you really wanted to punish yourself, you would chose GK IPA

[aleandhearty]

If you really wanted to punish yourself, you would chose GK IPA

You're being silly now. Nobody can actually swallow the stuff. Certainly, if it went more than a millimetre past my clack,I'd bring it straight up again.

[aleandhearty]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...n_4114120.html

They mean very little to me. The only one I've been in is The Spaniard and that was twenty odd years ago.

[Wittenden]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...n_4114120.html

They mean very little to me. The only one I've been in is The Spaniard and that was twenty odd years ago.

Not been in any of 'em: don't think I'd fit in!

[Bucking Fastard]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...n_4114120.html

They mean very little to me. The only one I've been in is The Spaniard and that was twenty odd years ago.

Big fat zero for me.

[Al 10000]

Ive only done 3, the Lansdowne,Spaniards and Nags Head,the Nags Head is a really nice pub that is well worth a visit,i was a bit dissapointed with the service in the Spaniards,too slow and that was in winter,dread to think what it would be like on a summers day.

[oldboots]

It's grim oop North

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/D...wJ%2FAfUh7uRTm

[Mobyduck]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...n_4114120.html

They mean very little to me. The only one I've been in is The Spaniard and that was twenty odd years ago.

Not been in any of 'em: don't think I'd fit in!

Big fat zero for me.

Ive only done 3, the Lansdowne,Spaniards and Nags Head,the Nags Head is a really nice pub that is well worth a visit,i was a bit dissapointed with the service in the Spaniards,too slow and that was in winter,dread to think what it would be like on a summers day.

Only the Nags Head for me , but well worthy of the listing in my opinion as a pub , the only downside for me is its exclusively Adnams unless things have changed in the last couple of years.