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I'll start with...

 

 

Slalom Lager

 

COST: 8/10 ?1.09 per litre bottle.

 

STRENGTH: 5/10 Was about 3.8%

 

PISSINESS: 6/10 Tasted alright, but you'd need at least 3x1L bottles to get a 'buzz' on.

 

REDEEMING FEATURE: 7/10 Prepared you for your first trip to Spain and those dirt cheap litre bottles of San Miguel, Xibeca, Cruzcampo, Mahou etc.

 

PUB SMUGGLABILTY: 2/10 Only disguisable by salad dodgers.

 

STREET CREDIBILITY/NICKABILITY: 5/10 Unusual and quite hard to find, an unknown quantity - you could pretend you were a Compton 'Gangsta' (we were supping this when 'Boyz n The Hood' first came out). Rip the label off and you could act like it was Barr Pop - if it got 'on top' .

Edited November 18, 201114 yr by Youri McAnespie

Stones bitter, would rather sup a pint of piss.

This really was the devils piss , got a headache just thinking about it.

This really was the devils piss , got a headache just thinking about it.

 

Stones had a rival for it's crown as headache causing wank:

 

 

Vs.

 

 

By, it were shit.

Do you remember when Joseph Holts had 'Regal' lager, "ooh that sounds a posh one" no it's not you dumb bitch, it's lager spelt backwards

 

Some believe that JH's Crystal lager aint that bad....

 

Joseph Holt's Crystal wins gold

 

MANCHESTER-based Joseph Holt is raising a glass and celebrating a resounding success as it scoops three medals ? including gold ? at the International Brewing Awards.

Dubbed the ?Oscars? of brewing, the prestigious competition took place at the National Brewing Centre, Burton-upon-Trent. Over 30 specialist judges and professional brewers gathered to analyse nearly 800 entries from around the world, including UK admissions from Carlsberg, Fosters, Hydes and Thwaites.

 

The search was on for the world?s best beers and the judges were looking for an outstanding example to fit each of the nine categories, which were defined primarily by alcohol strength.

 

One of five breweries globally to have been awarded three or more medals, Joseph Holt?s Crystal lager superseded entries from across the globe to land the gold medal in the International Keg Lager 2.9 ? 4.7 ABV. category. Holts also bagged bronze awards in the dark beer category for its draught Smooth Black and Sixex bottled beer.

 

Holt's brewery is not new to success, having previously won prizes in this renowned competition for Best International Ale and Cask Mild. Its 1849 ale was awarded a gold medal, Maple Moon was a close runner-up with a silver medal and three of its ales have also been included in the world's top 50 best beers.

 

Richard Kershaw, Chief Executive of the brewery and great-great-grandson of Joseph Holt ? who founded the brewery in 1849 ? said: ?This international event really is the Oscars for brewers and to win a gold medal is a fantastic achievement. It has confirmed we brew the best lager in the world. Our Crystal lager won over the judges in a blind tasting and beat off competition from beers around the world, including Carling, Fosters and Carlsberg. The gold medal proves that taste and quality are more important than brand advertising. We have been brewing Crystal for over 10 years and we know it is a terrific lager and a worthy winner.? Holt?s Head Brewer Keith Sheard added: ?I am absolutely delighted. We have reached the pinnacle of brewing success with this award. It shows the quality of products that we produce. We have been refining Crystal lager in recent years so it has a Continental aroma and flavour. That gradual improvement has led to the judges awarding it a gold medal.?

 

Crystal has certainly proved its worth and has gone down a storm locally and the brewery now produces three-and-a-half million pints of Crystal lager a year. The lager can be enjoyed in all Joseph Holt pubs and many North West venues ? and it?s only a matter of time before word spreads and Crystal appears in pubs further afield. It is certainly a must-try ? the professionals say so!

 

About Joseph Holt

 

Joseph Holt is a family brewer, which was founded in 1849 and has remained in the family for over five generations. Based in Manchester, the company owns 126 pubs and restaurants in the North West and supplies Holt?s beers to over 190 venues nationally.

 

Over the many years of trading the brewery has expanded its portfolio of products to include champion golden ale, premium IPA and award winning lagers. The pubs also stock an exquisite range of wines from around the world. Following major refurbishment of the pubs, Joseph Holt entered into the food market and now provides fresh and delicious meals in over 30 of its pubs.

 

Although ever expanding and not afraid to try something new, in the entire history of Holt?s Brewery, it has never changed its most successful formula ? a quality pint at an affordable price.

 

Contact

 

For further press information or enquiries, please contact Rebecca Daniels on 0161 827 7258 or email rebecca.daniels@joseph-holt.com

 

Alternatively, please contact Richard Kershaw on 0161 834 3285 or email richard.kershaw@joseph-holt.com

 

By, it were shit.

Give over, when it were 11.5% it did the bizzo

Not a patch on this though as far as barley wines went:

And just to add I got the label from this site which has a shed load:

http://www.taverntrove.com/index.php

Greenall Whitley bitter and it's cunningly entitled 'German' lager equivalent - Grunhalle. Jesus....

Greenalls mild

 

dishwater

Always got crates of skol or stones when at university.

Could drink 12 of them and feel no effect !!

 

Tenants super once got me mindless drunk - never touched it since. The smell is awful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOQ0rURCMWA

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ofJFyQ8Is

Reet, up my street is this. First of all most cant`ale is utter shite and will never replicate a draught beer. Bottles are ok, well some of em. Real ale in bottles are shite, not too long ago you could buy a good ale in a bottle and it would keep a good head. Now these ales are like supping lucosade and they never keep a head. All these do is make me belch n fart.

But shite ale many moons ago were plenty, Double Diamond, Watney`s party cans,Skol, Kestral. Hemeling,to name a few. Some of those were on sale before the invention of the ring pull.

Now I don`t sup any beer from a tin, bottle or nitrokeg unless I`m desperate. I only sup real ale on hand pump or red wine.

 

Couldn't have put it better myself. I like 'Spoons meself. Oftentimes they have some decent stuff on, but I always cringe when I hear people asking for John Smiths. Now that is shite.

Oh, and cans are for beans, not beer.

Greenhalls bitter?

 

Greenhalls Festival Bitter .... absolute cat !

anything by that lump o shite brewery from oldham....

 

john willie lees....

Greenhalls Festival Bitter .... absolute cat !

 

Yep agree with that Greenhalls was shite back in the 70/80's but did improve. Are they still brewing? Stones/Mc.Kewens = shite

Wilsons bitter

 

Lion bitter

 

Both awful

If memory serves me right did nt they serve wilsons bitter at burnden in the early to mid eighties.

Been in the Rope & Anchor toneet, had a few pints of Cumberland Bitter, bloody lovely it was, apparently last neet I was 'over served' with Hobgoblin, fuck me it is a good beer, anyhow, next week we are on 'Biggest Liar in the World' a brew from Cockermouth, then in December we are on 'The Dogs Bollocks' a 6.2% beer which is awesome

Anything on electric pumps is shite. Fizz-water the lot of it. Was on Deception from Abbeydale Brewery and one of Harviestouns (buggered if I can remember which one) in the Spinners Monday Club last week. Purchase one of the many real ales on offer, get your card stamped and hey presto, your tenth pint is free. You might need a couple of Mondays to take advantage.

GB lager was awful. Just done a quick google search and can't find a thing on it. The logo for it was like the GB car sticker. One of the few places that I ever saw serving it was the flea pit in Horwich about ten years ago. Thankfully, you don't see it anywhere now!

GB lager was awful. Just done a quick google search and can't find a thing on it. The logo for it was like the GB car sticker. One of the few places that I ever saw serving it was the flea pit in Horwich about ten years ago. Thankfully, you don't see it anywhere now!

 

They had it in the bridge too.

The pump was designed to look like an old fashioned bath tap, and the GBlabel had 'Great Beer' underneath.

GB lager was awful. Just done a quick google search and can't find a thing on it. The logo for it was like the GB car sticker. One of the few places that I ever saw serving it was the flea pit in Horwich about ten years ago. Thankfully, you don't see it anywhere now!

 

I remember drinking that - though by my memory I don't remember it being that bad.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/how-refreshing-whitbread-serves-a-british-brew-719792.html

 

Crystal as mentioned above is disgusting, how thats won any awards, god knows.

anything by that lump o shite brewery from oldham....

 

john willie lees....

I agree, the only decent pint of JWL i ever supped was in the pub closest to the brewery. If it travels more than a mile by a dray waggon it turns into fucking bilge.

Double fuckin diamond truly was the devils piss (did it used to be served in the albion??)

 

By, it were shit.

My first regular pub was "The Painters " in town & there was an Irish chap in there who only drank bottles of Gold Label. He used to shake that much that he had to drink it through a straw in the bottle, so it was obviously doing him good.

 

Horrible,sickly stuff, consistency of glue. No idea if it's still going.

Fuckin ell, Tesco Bitter 2.1, WTF? I wouldn`t have them given me. Yes Juan, nothing from electric pumps pass my lips if I can help it, John smiths is pure nitrogen shite in a glass.

Jolly Nailor in Atherton offers real ales from Algates Brewery in pieland but by eck they are good. Last week they had a porter at 5.4 absolute gorgeous, all beers are ?2 a pint. Eight hand pumps in there and one shite pump.

 

Spoons in Leigh had seven ales on at the weekend, three xmas beers and four ales, three of em I`d never heard of. All ?1.99 a pint.