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Mine's A Light & Bitter!

I was drinking a Snecklifter, 5.1%, in the JJ Moons at Tooting. My mate left, and he left a half of cold Guinness on the table. The snecklifter wasn't that good, so I mixed them together to make a Black and Tan. That was very good.

When I was growing up everyone drank light and bitter. I haven't heard that phrase in a pub in twenty years. I think light ale became too expensive for what it was.

And all the other mixer drinks have gone in this computer age. I mean mixed beers.

Can I have a black and tan? Computer says no.

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Offramp
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See my thread below "cheapest pint"

Only last week we were drinking "mixed" - traditionally - in this neck of the woods, is half a bitter mixed with half a mild. The mild may be dark or it may be light depending on the brewery. It doesn't phase the staff up here when you ask for that - or a brown & bitter.

JB

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johnbrennand

In my youth it was a way of getting more for your money. The half pint of bitter was never measured and often was 3/4+ pint. Then in came metering in the pubs I drank in. It was also common to drink lager and lime - I cannot think of anything worse now.

Is mixed beer now a minority drink because the overall standard of beer has improved in the past 30 years [if you ignore some of the offerings from Greene King :) ]

Alternatively it was replaced with another 'fad' much like the latest of flavoured cider or "crafted gin" which seem to have replaced the much maligned alco-pops

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alan_m

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