Not strictly real ale but....

One for Mike Roebuck, Huddersfield Netto are advertising Wentworth Pale Ale on sale from Monday 2nd. April at 99p, sadly only in bottles.

Mike

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Mike Swift
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..and just been on Netto's website. They're also doing Greene King IPA at 99p for a full pint bottle (not the usual 500ml)

Reply to
M Platting

I've only had GK IPA (on draught) on only one occasion.It's an experience I'd care not to repeat, at any price!

Wayne

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Wayne

The usual size - if not the usual price.

Been to look for both today - not on sale until MOnday.

If you're drinking at home, why pay more???

Reply to
Chris de Cordova

I'm on a serious Greene King boycott. I don't care how cheap it is. I won't buy or drink any of their products. Full stop.

Reply to
Mike Roebuck

It's 99p because it tastes like stewed piss.

Reply to
Mike

Nice if you can get it.

We accept 2nd best for those nights when we don't go out.

My local, last night, had Yates' Mad March Hare 4.2%, Hawkshead Gold

4.4% and Hesket Newmarket Scafell Blonde 4.4%. (as well as the regular, Landlord)

Glad I went out!!

Reply to
Chris de Cordova

Oh!

(only joking!!)

Reply to
Chris de Cordova

How do you know?

Reply to
KeithS

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:57:49 +0100, Mike Roebuck wrote: .

Oh go on! tell! I take it you're talking about a pub in West Yorks and hence Metro Dayrover-able? Always wanted to try WPA on draught.

Reply to
M Platting

How are the mighty fallen! wasn't it just a few years ago that Green King IPA was CAMRA's Champion Beer of Britain?

Not that I'm defending it, mind. It was always known as Green Thing around Bedfordshire.

Reply to
M Platting

No, champion bitter beer. Still not defending it though :(

Reply to
KeithS

Not quite.

The Commercial, Chapeltown, South Yorkshire. 5 minutes walk from Chapeltown railway station (Sheffield - Barnsley - Wakefield - Leeds line. Your Metrocard is valid from West Yorkshire as far as Darton on that route.

The Commercial is the unofficial Wentworth Brewery tap.

The beer was always good, but is even better since the brewery started using its own spring water.

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Mike Roebuck

It's had a bad reputation in these parts since they took over Morlands (which had a bad reputation in these parts) ie for as long as we've known it. Rooney Anand claimed it won the CBOB 2nd prize because he'd stopped them putting hop oil in it and let them use real ingredients. We tried it soon after and it was all right but still nothing special.

It may have got worse again: all big companies seem to have a suicidal urge to skimp on essentials while wasting much larger amounts on fads and fripperies.

BTW the worst GK pub in Reading is now the Utlook: one of its letters has fallen off the frontage.

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MadCow

by the by - again, not wishing to encourage anyone to drink the GKIPA, but it's 99p for 660ml, not for a pint (568ml) - equiv 85p/pint - so it's not only the big nasty-lager brewers who are irresponsibly selling beer for next to nothing. (tho the carlsberg case deal does work out at a shocking 54p/pint!)

Obligatory Good Beer Part of the Post - I had a very overcarbonated but pleasant BCA bottle of Whittington's Cat's Whiskers(*) the other night - it had been kept in a cool larder, but still took 3 oversized pint glasses to contain it's 500ml! (BBD - May 07)

At least it's yeast stayed put on the bottom of the bottle & once it calmed it down was a nice freshly hoppy nutty brown bitter - very pleasantly washed down the lacklustre locally-sourced fish&chips.

I'd bought it from Waitrose, Henley-O-T a while back, (I was hoping to find some Loddon beers) it was in a 3bottle gift-pack with a lovely albeit filtered Westerham beer & another I've forgot - has anyone had much experience of other beers recently from breweries using the former Wessex Craft bottlers? (a.k.a. Integrated Bottling Solutions, & Branded Drinks, based in Mitcheldean, Gloucs) cheers MikeMcG

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MikeMcG

Tis nice, well I've only had it on draught.

Reply to
Mike Jones

And people wonder why punters are wary of BCAs...

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PeterE

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