Beers from your youth

I was just thinking about watching dodgy Betamax videos whilst drinking Colt 45 and Breaker as an impressionable adolescent.... However my first beer was probably Inde Coope 'Long Life' pale ale... I also remember small red cans of pale ale with a squirrel on the logo and the legends that were Hemeling and'NorseMan' lager... Anyone else start their journey on absolute gnat's pish?

my dad used to give me the odd can of skol & hoffmeister (i think it was called that) used to take it down the park on a friday and after supping on a tinnie used to finger blast some fat chicks... cos thats how i rolled..

oh the joys of growing up in ely

thank feck i left...

Double diamond in Bumpers. Worthington E. woodpecker cider

Vinnie Tans Tache wrote:my dad used to give me the odd can of skol & hoffmeister (i think it was called that) used to take it down the park on a friday and after supping on a tinnie used to finger blast some fat chicks... cos thats how i rolled..

oh the joys of growing up in ely

thank feck i left...

I was briefly a devotee of Hofmeister just before the gamechanger that was Foster's Ice hit the scene Never did the fat chicks thing so much as it was always cold where I grew up so I always had gloves on

Biguba wrote:Double diamond in Bumpers. Worthington E. woodpecker cider

Woodpecker... Now there's a way to get drunk... I suffered terribly from 'Bow Ring' so I had to go for Woodpecker and I was a bit of a girl

Diamond White and Thunderbird Pear Cider... got wasted on those two many a time...

Caffreys later on, until they diluted it down.

Bottles of Manns and Mackeson!

Cyncoedslumdog wrote:Bottles of Manns and Mackeson!

Black Velvet at the Pig & Whistle.......Manns or Mackeson plus cider (poor man's version)

Arctic Lite
Faust
Hurlimann's
Hemeling

Woodpecker and Stonehouse cider until I overdid it on both. Graduated to Fosters Ice and Budweiser before venturing onto Caffreys but as Dr Socks states, they watered it down and by that time I was a student so then it became whatever was the cheapest available pint.

Theses days I don't drink at all, genuinely never thought that would happen but it's been five months without a drop. Bank balance looks a whole lot better for it

Not so much from my youth, but about ten years ago there used to be an off licence in Roath, Donald Street I think, that did 8 cans of Saracen lager (5%) for £5 and 2 bottles of wine for £5. For £10 each me and my mates used to get in a right old state. You are lucky to get 3 pints in town for £10 now.

Flagons of the Feeling Foul brewery's foray into the world of mad apples, Black Dragon cider. My mate Kevin had the best bum fluff moustache so he'd be back and fore to the local Spar buying the flagons with small change.

It's nice to see Diamond White getting a mention. It tasted, smelled and looked exactly like watered down and carbonated paint thinners. Mix it with 20/20 for a Mad Dog: pure vomit fuel.

I'm like Arkay; I barely drink anymore, but I'm assuming Hemeling, Kestrel, Allbright and Brenin Bitter all lost their fights against the Trade Discrimination Act and are no longer allowed to pass themselves off as a food stuff.

Me and mate went to rome a few years bk for the egg chasing, and all we drank was tennents super, we got in a right state, so much we missed our flight bk home, that stuff is lethal..

Kamuza wrote:Flagons of the Feeling Foul brewery's foray into the world of mad apples, Black Dragon cider. My mate Kevin had the best bum fluff moustache so he'd be back and fore to the local Spar buying the flagons with small change.

It's nice to see Diamond White getting a mention. It tasted, smelled and looked exactly like watered down and carbonated paint thinners. Mix it with 20/20 for a Mad Dog: pure vomit fuel.

I'm like Arkay; I barely drink anymore, but I'm assuming Hemeling, Kestrel, Allbright and Brenin Bitter all lost their fights against the Trade Discrimination Act and are no longer allowed to pass themselves off as a food stuff.

Unbelievably I think you can still get Allbright, at least I saw it on draught in a pub in Burry Port a few years ago surely one of the worst beers ever brewed. And don't get me started on feelingfoul, jesus wept, who the hell would drink that, I wouldn't kill slugs with it.

Happy Days wrote:

Kamuza wrote:Flagons of the Feeling Foul brewery's foray into the world of mad apples, Black Dragon cider. My mate Kevin had the best bum fluff moustache so he'd be back and fore to the local Spar buying the flagons with small change.

It's nice to see Diamond White getting a mention. It tasted, smelled and looked exactly like watered down and carbonated paint thinners. Mix it with 20/20 for a Mad Dog: pure vomit fuel.

I'm like Arkay; I barely drink anymore, but I'm assuming Hemeling, Kestrel, Allbright and Brenin Bitter all lost their fights against the Trade Discrimination Act and are no longer allowed to pass themselves off as a food stuff.

Unbelievably I think you can still get Allbright, at least I saw it on draught in a pub in Burry Port a few years ago surely one of the worst beers ever brewed. And don't get me started on feelingfoul, jesus wept, who the hell would drink that, I wouldn't kill slugs with it.

I once went on a bit of a working holiday of the USA and we happened across a bar that sold 100 beers from around the world. They had beers from lots of different countries but none you'd recognise. They had Belgian beers but not Stella, French beers but no Kronenburg etc. Amazingly they actually had Wales on the list. Our beer was called Dragon Ale and was all the way from Felin Foel. I can tell you that one bottle of the stuff would have cured Terry Waite of home sickness.