Just got back from a 35 mile cycle ride and thought I'd pop in to our local Morrisons for a few bottles and some Chinese turkey steaks and guess what?The legendary Sheffield brew is back - not brewed in Sheffield of course, but by Vaux. Cost 4 for a fiver. Haven't tried it yet, they are cooling down in the fridge, but I'll be popping into the sauna to take trip down memory lane very soon :-) Makes up for not being able to get White Shield around here.
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Er, Vaux closed at the same time as Ward's. Double Maxim is contract-brewed by Robinson's in Stockport.
If your Ward's is the same it may be pleasant enough but taste more like a typical Robinson's beer than the highly distinctive and malty Ward's of old.
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Did you try it? Was it any good, then?
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Off to Morrisons for me I think!
Dom
Bloody hell, I go to Morrison's in Sheffield and there's no sign of it... unbelievable considering the biggest market for the beer is in it's original home city....
Dom
It's only been in ours a week, so it might turn up in your Morrison's soon, but you would have thought it would be one of the first places it would be launched in!
Simon
Are you sure it hadn't already sold out? :-)
Cheers
Mike
there were no gaps on the shelf and no signs mentioning the beer.
Publicity of the new brew in Sheffield has been quiet to say the least.
Dom
I doubt that it will sell all that well in Sheffield anyway, to be honest. Brewed on t' wrong side o' t' Pennines, and all that :-)
Cheers
Mike
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