Booze of yesteryear

[Clydeside_Sheep]

What drinks do you remember from the past, which are now much diminished or seemingly gone forever?

Caffreys 

Kilkennys - was never really convinced by this

(Re the above two, I suppose there is a natural limit to the Irish Ale market, which Guinness and Murphys have had sown up for ages)

70 Shilling and 80 Shilling - you never see these now.  (I liked a pint of 80/-, complimented by Club fags and Grilled Onion McCoys.)

Tennents Velvet - an offshoot of the above 70/80

"Ice" versions of Lagers - in particular I remember Fosters Ice and Labatt Ice.  I enjoyed these as a teen, but would now scorn their weedy 330ml bottles.  I liked Labatt Ice in particular, as it was a healthy 5.6%.  There was Bud Ice too, think that's defunct too.

Miller - whatever happened to that?  It used to be massive, now as outmoded as our own dear Millertime (haste ye back).

What else?

Its all this CAMRA "nettle ale with a streak of piss" on offer now!  Thanks God for German imports.

[Bluto10]

Skol 

[Roberto]

Had a Reef when I was down the road.

Was terrible.

[sigh]

do folk still order a Black and Tan? Or is that racist nowadays

or snakebite?

I do miss a pint of 70 or 80 shilling

[Ten Caat]

Remember as an underage drinker (16) going into the local disco (they weren't called clubs in 1983) in time for happy hour. Ordering up 10 neat vodkas and 10 creme de menthes and still getting change out of a tenner. Mixed them together back at the table, was like drinking mouthwash but did the job admirably. And then tasted relatively pleasant throwing the lot back up once home at about 3am

[Poodler]

Does anyone still drink becks?

[styrofoamplates]

1 minute ago, Poodler said:

Does anyone still drink becks?

I don't mind a Becks occasionally. 

Had a Holsten Pills last year for the first time in about 20 years. Didn't enjoy it. 

[Zeus]

VK Irn Bru 

[YorkDon]

Mind the old 70/80 shilling.

Thunderbird and the old Merrydown cider was a cheap bottle to help get pissed.MD 20/20 too.

[ericblack4boss]

Tartan special, was my ale if choice for a long time

[Zeus]

Diamond White 

[Tommy]

Kestrel lager.

Norseman lager.

 

[maryhilldon]

12 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Diamond White 

They gave me a cunt of a headache.

[dave_min]

Used to enjoy a Weihenstephaner me.

 

[perthshirered]

Special, McEwans Export, cracking cans but fucking rancid, as was Miller Genuine draught, utterly tasteless. 

I always thought Harp was a good pint. 

[sigh]

13 minutes ago, perthshirered said:

Special, McEwans Export, cracking cans but fucking rancid, as was Miller Genuine draught, utterly tasteless. 

I always thought Harp was a good pint. 

You still get them, Ive some in the hoose just now - may well have one this evening

[RedArmyFakshun]

 

[Subterranean Homesick Roos]

[Guest Matt Armstrong's Dog]

1 hour ago, sigh said:

do folk still order a Black and Tan? Or is that racist nowadays

or snakebite?

I do miss a pint of 70 or 80 shilling

.

Served many an Export or Ember, accompanied with a glass bottle of Sweetheart Stout (for the patron to pour into their pint glass laden with heavy beer as desired) during my bartending years.

Black Russians and White Russians were also purveyed. 

No racial connotations were implied or thought of whatsoever, from the point of the customer's request to the delivery of goods and completion of service on behalf of the hostelry I was employed by.

 

[Guest Matt Armstrong's Dog]

Carlsberg Special Brew, in my experimental days, was the beer of choice.

[DD1903]

Is Kay cider still a thing? Spewed everywhere after drinking several cans of that as a 16 or 17 year old. Returned to merrydown after that.

[DD1903]

3 hours ago, Clydeside_Sheep said:

What drinks do you remember from the past, which are now much diminished or seemingly gone forever?

Caffreys 

Kilkennys - was never really convinced by this

(Re the above two, I suppose there is a natural limit to the Irish Ale market, which Guinness and Murphys have had sown up for ages)

70 Shilling and 80 Shilling - you never see these now.  (I liked a pint of 80/-, complimented by Club fags and Grilled Onion McCoys.)

Tennents Velvet - an offshoot of the above 70/80

"Ice" versions of Lagers - in particular I remember Fosters Ice and Labatt Ice.  I enjoyed these as a teen, but would now scorn their weedy 330ml bottles.  I liked Labatt Ice in particular, as it was a healthy 5.6%.  There was Bud Ice too, think that's defunct too.

Miller - whatever happened to that?  It used to be massive, now as outmoded as our own dear Millertime (haste ye back).

What else?

Its all this CAMRA "nettle ale with a streak of piss" on offer now!  Thanks God for German imports.

Labbatts and Foster's ice. Remember them well. Used to drink them in the old JJ booths in shawlands. Were a nice wee change from miller or Bud, which seemed to be the only things you could get in some pubs 

[sigh]

Remember going through a phase of drinking Red Stripe for some reason.

The Newcastle Brown phase was short lived.

Never did the Grolsch thing.

[maryhilldon]

18 minutes ago, sigh said:

Remember going through a phase of drinking Red Stripe for some reason.

The Newcastle Brown phase was short lived.

Never did the Grolsch thing.

Red Stripe cans used to be my tipple in The Box. They were only £2 a can about 10 years ago.

[Ramandu]

1 hour ago, Subterranean Homesick Roos said:

I'm too young to have seen a beer without a ring pull. Are you supposed to use a tin opener?

[Reed or deed]

White lightning.

The choice of young sluts.

[Don Fonte]

23 minutes ago, Reed or deed said:

White lightning.

The choice of young sluts.

How is your daughter anyway?

[manboobs109]

You still get 70 and 80 in plenty pubs. My local sells loads of 80.

[The Buzzard]

Labbatts Ice was good. Bottles of that before lining up to get into the nightclubs no d hoping not to be ID'd. Always the unwritten rule that you paired up with another safe bet mate for getting in. And if any mate ahead of you got knocked back they were dead to you at that moment. Not even an acknowledgment of them as they walked back down past the queue. 
 

Fres - that was like a blackcurrant drink popular with the ladies in clubs. 
 

Tennents SD was a cracker. Bit like a Caffreys if I remember. 
 

Becks - fucking loved it back in the day. 

[redone]

3 hours ago, Zeus said:

Diamond White 

aka Brain Damage

Maybe one for the Teuchters thread….anybody else mind on (or even heard of) Clearic ?…not a brand name ,just the name given to some sort of pure alcohol by-product from the whisky distilling process.  Usually procured by some low-level distillery worker/alkie and typically shared out in a hip flask on bus runs/ staggers.  Fuckin lethal.