Defunct Alcoholic Drinks

west

 The old school trick of last orders ( 11pm and 10.30 on a sunday) of the last pint drunk down a way and a gold label barley wine poured in ... "one for the ditch ....

Phil_aka_Pip

Gold Label. It's in cans these days not bottles, and I think there's less % alcohol in it. Used to be 9% but now it's only 7,5%. One of my mates drinks it, after his usual ale, and before his whisky.

Sesh

Can you still get Hoffmeister? Only drank it once. Worst beer induced hangover ever.

RobDavies

What about Hawk lager?  Not seen that since the mid 80's...?

RobDavies

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Gold Label. It's in cans these days not bottles, and I think there's less % alcohol in it. Used to be 9% but now it's only 7,5%. One of my mates drinks it, after his usual ale, and before his whisky.

I was engaged to a girl who's mother used to open her first can of Gold Label at approximately 8am every day.

fields5069

I think a lot of the stuff I used to drink in Uni in Lancaster either isn't available anymore or doesn't travel well. I remember McEwan's 70/- and 80/- in particular.

martinw

Ellesmere Port.

randella

WezV said:

Fretwired said:

rawk100 said:

Do they still make Boddingtons? 

It's coming back .. the old brewery is being reopened.

Its never been away.  Owned by AB Inbev

The name's never been away, however the beer disappeared sometime in the late 90's never to be seen again.

As @ronnyb mentions, it was never really seen outside of Manchester and surrounds until it was replaced by the undrinkable nitro-split keg stuff which I've seen on draught as far afield as Sydney.

The Strangeways brewery was a landmark, and it was a shame when it all went, but Manchester still has Holts and Hydes along with a raft of locally-brewed stuff both from the city and Cheshire.

NelsonP

Looks like it would go down well in a live music / blues venue, right?

DLM

WezV said:

merlin said:

I haven't seen Barley Wine for a while but I'm sure it's still going. 

As a style, its still available an dprobably only so long before we see a new hipster version going mainstream.

I've had a fair few different small/microbreweries' barley wines over the last couple of years, mostly localish. Here's a particularly metal example: \m/ http://www.crewrepublic.de/en/crew-brews/rest-in-peace.html http://www.bier-entdecken.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Crew-Republic-Rest-in-Peace-Flaschendesign.jpg Hey, Zakk Wylde has his signature on every other product imaginable.... Oh wait...

MagicPigDetective

Oranjeboom was the cornershop lager of choice when I lived in Cardiff in the early 00’s. 

proggy

KDS said:

proggy said:

I can remember a lager called Oranjiboom, and I can remember quite liking it.

You can still get it

Unfortunately for me @KDS  I've developed Coeliac Disease since I last saw it, so I wouldn't be able to drink it now. Unless they brew a gluten free version, but I very much doubt it.

TonyR

• Taboo/Mirage
• Harp (stays sharp to the bottom of the glass) lager
• Tetleys Mild
• Castlemain XXXX
• Löwenbräu Pilsner
• Skol lager (on draught)
• Cherry B
• Mackesons Milk Stout

Tone71

mudslide73 said:

My biggest miss is Tennent's Extra. Very drinkable but still 5%. Tennent's Super is earwax.

I liked Rik's description of the beast from the lager of Lamot commercials as being "a sabre tooth horse" on the Bad News record. 

Tennants Extra was the lager of my first ventures into pubs, really decent pint used to get rat arsed every weekend on it, that and Holstein Export (hooligan soup).

prowla

Blue Nun?

Legionreturns

prowla said:

Blue Nun?

Stay classy! 

JerkMoans

Legionreturns said:

prowla said:

Blue Nun?

Stay classy! 

*shudders*

all of that breed: Black Tower. Paul Masson. Hirondelle.

Legionreturns

JerkMoans said:

Legionreturns said:

prowla said:

Blue Nun?

Stay classy! 

*shudders*

all of that breed: Black Tower. Paul Masson. Hirondelle.

I can tell you're a Lambrini girl at heart

west

JerkMoans said:

Legionreturns said:

prowla said:

Blue Nun?

Stay classy! 

*shudders*

all of that breed: Black Tower. Paul Masson. Hirondelle.

i'll raise you Don Cortez ..... 

guitars4you

west said:

JerkMoans said:

Legionreturns said:

prowla said:

Blue Nun?

Stay classy! 

*shudders*

all of that breed: Black Tower. Paul Masson. Hirondelle.

i'll raise you Don Cortez ..... 

recall my gran drinking Blue Nun and something called 'Barsac' - a wine that was incredible sickly and sweet