Light and bitter was popular around Kent and Sarf London back in the last Century. It made the Courage Best more palatable, I think.
I have come across one pub in Dartford and a couple across the river in South Essex that sell keg Double Diamond although I haven't been in any of them for some time. According to various websites, Tetleys stopped brewing it in 2003 but I have had it within the last 2 or 3 years and there are some recent reviews of it on Ratebeer so it is obviously still around. It still tasted as disgusting as ever when I last tried it.
I remember being on snakebite, and it was bitter and cider we had as a mix.
In my young lager drinking days, I hated it when a dash of lime was put in as I cannot stand the stuff and always had to get it replaced.
Black and tan was another popular northern drink.
Just remembered another that was around in the north, a pint of bitter with a little bottle of Gold Label.
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Guinness & Gold Label was the Drink of Choice for Me & most of crowed I drank with in the Mid seventy's. Probably because in most Pubs there was No decent Ale it was all Keg manly Tankard Red Barrel Or Double Diamond were we lived in Ponders End Enfield
Don't You just hate Pubs that say
( We don't stock any Real Ales as theres Just no call for it.)
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
That brings back memories of the Eighties for me.
I was working in Slough then and we had a local where we would go after work for a couple. My mate would then give me a lift home and while he nipped round to the council car park to get his car I would finish off with a pint of Directors and a bottle of Gold Label to top it up !
It was a wonderful nightcap (Directors was a superb beer in those days when it was brewed in Bristol) and he always wondered why I usually fell into the car when he picked me up !
I always recall people drinkng Ramrod and Special in Youngs pubs. I never did it myself but with Ramrod now back as a seasonal, the opportunity may arise in the not too distant future.
Last edited by Farway; 27-09-2010 at 13:56. Reason: PS