Can't show you the label tho.

My friends and I still drink this quite often. It's not unusual for someone who is out of step with the round to ask for a bottle of Old Bob to top up their pint.

Whitbread (I think) Forest Brown, in bottles. My first illicit pub going tipple of choice, ahead of moving on to a year of Carling Black label. Thank Christ I lived where I did and could be supping Harveys Sussex Bitter by the time I became of age. Virtually unsourceable outside Sussex, more is the pity.

Not sure if this still around so long since I've had any I bet it was rotten.
You can still get youngs(?) light ale mind.

A Party 7
Worthington E
Double Diamond
Long Life
A pint of mild
Cream label

I think everyone's got one.

Hooch

snakebite and black

that made Fosters taste nice.

Common order for old couples when I worked in a pub about 25 years ago was a pint of Mild for him and a rum’n’pep (peppermint cordial) for her. Don’t think you get Mild in pubs much these days. Certainly not down south

How about Tab Clear?

Cherry B.
Everyone of a certain age must have encountered this promotional flexi:
http://www.wfmu.org/365/2003/058.shtml

Apols if I've posted this before, but I do love the voices of the famous Cherry B twins.

Amazingly, you can still buy Cherry B if you know where to go. It's pretty grim - not a patch on Babycham.

My friends and I still refer to the Summer of '96 as the Summer of Hooch. Oh it was a joy to be alive - I was 18, Brit Pop had made my Supergrass-esque mutton chops a potent aphrodisiac and Euro '96 was providing us all with our footy related kicks. Hooch was the fuel of this halcyon period - especially when mixed with Stella to make a 'power shandy'. These days I simply drink Hydes Mild. It's not the same.

Does anyone remember what beer it was that used to have the pictures of page three models on?

Just reminded me of the old peanut holders that used to hang up behind the bar in pubs - the more packets of peanuts bought the more that was revealed of the bikini clad Farrah Fawcett lookalike pictured beneath...

Good to see we are much more sophisticated these days - pass my copy of Nuts magazine!

Probably still does.

Cheapest of the cheap lager from the 1980s. Slogan was "It Bites". It didn't.

It was Tennents lager that had the "lager lovelies" on their cans. They're collector's items now I believe (the cans, that is). Retro beat me to this I see - but I think I have the right spelling! cheers

On Friday I "invented" the Lilibu.

A lovely mixture of Lilt and Malibu...Yum.

The cheapest lager in Britain. Used to work in Sainsburys and I recall it being £1.29 for four cans. It was weak (and tasted weak). We used to sell mountains of it at Christmas.

It was what you took to parties, put on the table and cracked on with someone else's Stella.

Yeuch.

Is that still around? 'Harp. Stay Sharp' That was your catchphrase.

We drank it in cans when I was a sixth-former. One on memorable occasion headbanging to Freebird. Anyway I recall thinking 'lager is sh*t, isn't it?' even then.

As was/is Pernod and Blackcurrant. Utter poison. And yet we swilled it down like the buffoons we were.

In the mid eighties there was a strike at the major breweries with the consequence that pubs didnt have any draught beer for a couple of weeks. I recall drinking 5 cans of Breaker and hardly being able to stand up let alone function.It was somewhat bizarre.

Whatever happened to Barley wine - as an underage teenager that was the drink we got from the Off licence that would get us drunk the quickest. A couple of bottles of Mackeson and a bottle of Barley wine nearly always did the trick.

"Whitbread Big Head, Trophy bitter, The pint that thinks it's a quart". What was that supposed to mean?
In the TV adverts the barmaid used to place this huge glass on the bar that looked more like it held 5 gallons.

This is from my blog beer promotional records, I've also have Camra dixyland jazz one at home that's truly dreadful .
"It's a pity that Courage is so ropey nowadays!"

"Here comes Courage" Artist Unknown

I quite like this tune it's got some good sub shadows twanging guitar
"the Courage Twist" Unknown Artist

...half Sweetheart Stout and half McEwan's Export.
A 70s favourite of the gimmer and beginner alike and sweetly akin to sucking on a tin of condensed milk.
Quite fancy one now...

Always a snowball on Christmas eve, from when I was about 9 I think. Very, very posh drink.

… but did no one here ever 'seek out' the lager of Lamot? The TV ad seemed to be aimed squarely at 15-year-old metal heads, so there must be a few…

The drink of Kings. Still served and purchased by myself around the hostelries of London.

You cannot ask for this drink any further north than Harrow, or any further west than Hounslow. The bar staff will look at you funny and/or try to pour the light ale in first, clearly showing a lack of respect/knowledge of the true London drinking ettiquette.

Sadly hard to get hold of in music venues or anywhere that employs southern hemisphere bar staff...

Anyone for a can of Ace with an Advocaat chaser? Failing that, mine's a Bailey's and Cherryade

And reading that back, it sounds very Al Murray.

Yes Davenports. Growing up in Birmingham this was a favourite. I remember not remembering much about a tour of the brewery in the early '80s. And who could forget their classic bitter advert

If I was feeling flush it would be some Top Brew Delux, often though a pint of mixed (half bitter half mild)

"Follow the Bear" again

Castlemaine xxxx still out there? Remember when that first came out it seemed like the height of sophistication, drinking a Australian beer, how cosmipolitan.What a let down to find it was brewed in the UK

Which was a red stripe Crucial brew mixed with K cider with a pernod & black on top was the no1 bevvy with the bedford goth/crustie locals when i last worked in pubs in the uk. Major damage would follow very soon.

A beer designed to kill or at least seriously maim. I drunk two bottles on a night out in 1990 and was, I'm embarresed to admit, wasted. However, I'd never heard of it before (my brother was barman and I asked him to serve me 'Something interesting) and I've not come across it since. Anyone else tried it?

A Christmas tipple drank by and named after the popular rock combo, Dick and the Fireman, a loose collective of all the session men of the early 70s, wherein Dick was the late Mike Patto, also of the eponymous group. 1/2 of guinness, a barley wine and a dble brandy. One was enough, before shifting back to the relative calm of a Warmer Shandy: 1/2 Youngs Winter Warmer, topped up with a bottle of Ramrod.
Here is a reprint of the article that so enthused me as a callow lad:

"New Musical Express, August 7, 1976
"A large brandy, a barley wine and half a Guinness," explains Tench for the benefit of the uninitiated. A more careful gaze around the table reveals that, yes, they’re all drinking the same seething concoction and daftly smiling contentedly.

Naturally a fireman should never be without his hosepipe

DICK & THE FIREMEN '76 incarnation:Mel Collins, Neil Hubbard, Mike Patto, Alan Spenner, Carol Grimes, Bob Tench, Henry McCulloch, Tim Hinkley, Boz Burrell, Simon Kirke, John Halsey."

a) Now only available in bottles (and bearing my surname but no relation, sadly): Macardles Ale

and

b) I remember drinking Furstenberg beer at college in the mid-late '80's but never see it now.

Caffreys. It was everywhere in 1995 and heralded "as cold as lager, its texture would be as smooth as stout, while its taste was that of an ale.". I believe I'm right in saying it was a leading light of the smoothflow revolution which brought us the widget. Horrible stuff.

Advertised briefly last year, smacking suspiciously of a nasty drink produced by another irish brewer*. can't these fellas get it right? In Ireland black drinks good, brown drinks (except whiskey) bad. Smoothflow is accurate only in the ease with which its nasty cold soupy texture wishes the reverse journey to that initially taken.
* That's it, Beamish red. Hideous, yet Beamish stout is the smoothest of the 3 biggest Irish stouts.

http://www.caffreys.com/index.asp

...that Caffreys is not exactly flourishing.

Just found out that during Euro 1996 Hooper's Hooch was selling 2.5 million bottles a week!

Back when we had a proper National Health Service, my Dad used to get this. On prescription!

Hence, my first pre-teen tipple.

I remember being asked for this when working as a barman in the 70's - info below taken from

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A882155

It might well be called a Doberman in a jar; 'Black and Tan' is the name given to an alcoholic drink comprising of a 'mixture' of ale and stout, or sometimes lager and stout.

The name itself is derived from a political reference to the black and khaki military uniforms worn by the special auxiliary force - 'The Black and Tans' - who were brought in to Ireland fight the Irish nationalists in 1920.

Normal practice for making a Black and Tan is to first pull half a pint of ale into a pint glass, and then, using a spoon placed under the tap, to roll the stout oh-so-gently on to the top of the ale layer.

Done properly, the procedure produces a Black and Tan; black stout on the top and tan ale, or lager, underneath. Brownian Motion aside, the two beers won't mix in the glass until they are disturbed, for example, by drinking.

A classic Black and Tan consists of a foundation of Bass Pale Ale topped by thick black Guinness, the combination of English and Irish beers somehow cementing the origin of the name.

Remember the advert?

Was it an urban myth that patients used to get a bottle of Mackeson every day in hospital? Well, not all of them obviously but I'm sure I remember my gran telling me this.

Regarding mixes, theres the mother-in-law (old and bitter) and our Dorset version of black velvet, Guinness and cider, preferably scrumpy.

yes, guinness and mackeson were widely commended and even provided.But, from a pregnancy forum, her eis the current advice: "Sadly (if you enjoy stout or Guinness) this is a genuine old wives' tale! The iron content of stout is negligible, compared with even red wine - 0.05mg of iron in 100mls of stout, compared with 0.9mg in 100mls of red wine. If it is iron that you want or need, then a bowl of Bran Flakes (4.3mg of iron) or a couple of slices of beef (2.1mg) would serve you much better. Of the two foods, the beef is arguably the best, since iron of animal origin is better absorbed that other iron. As you probably know, the maximum recommended intake of alcohol during pregnancy is 1-2 units, once or twice a week. Please note that this is a maximum. Many women feel more comfortable drinking less alcohol, or none at all. A half-pint of normal strength beer or lager counts as one unit. However, bottled Guinness, in particular, tends to be stronger stuff than draught (check the '% alc vol' on the bottle), so just a quarter-pint (about 125mls) is probably equivalent to a unit of alcohol. You may like to measure out 125mls of water into a glass at home, so that you have some idea what this amount of liquid looks like when you get to the pub. In conclusion - yes, enjoy the occasional drink of Guinness - but think small glass and lady-like sips rather than a bottle!"
Cigarette manufactures used to advertise in the British Medical Journal. Times and mores change.....

I don't think you'd get away with calling a drink this today but I drank gallons of this stuff in the '80s. This may also explain my love of the Gosdin Brothers.

...into which the Boddies and Castle Eden slops were returned for "recycling" in the pub where I worked...

Anyone who frequented the Broken Doll in Newcastle should remember this very ,very strong lager.
It got you there!

.....at the end of the 70's/beginning of the 80's.

The bars in the hotel were tied to Bellhaven Brewery. The choices of draught beer were -
Bellhaven Heavy
Bellhaven Light
Seahorse Lager
Bellhaven Dark

They were all disgusting(even after lots of practising)except for the *Dark* which was like a stout. It didn't sell well though and was discontinued after a short while.

I don't think any of them exist anymore though I do see Bellhaven 80 shilling now and again.

I'm going for a game of snooker with my mate tonight and I'll have a few pints of Guinness. One day I'll get to Dublin and find out what the Liffey Water should really taste like.

Biarritz
Cool, long, deceptively strong
Biarritz - the unusual

Never drank it myself, mind.

The drink you could buy as an 10 year old and feel like you were a teenager.

http://is.gd/gt6m

Worked in their factory in Chelmsley Wood,Birmingham after I left school. My job was loading the crates off the conveyor belt onto the trucks. The crates were about the equivalent in weight to my then slim frame. It was bloody hard work and my thighs were bruised from giving the crates a lift onto the trucks. Lunchtime consisted of ducking out of the way of full pop bottles lobbed in your direction for a 'laugh'. I lasted one and a half days. Hardest I have ever worked in my life.

No, not the Aussie variety. This was brewed by Daniel Thwaites in the '80s where I worked for 2 years. Always sold cheap in Asda but never caught on. They experimented on the staff with blind tastings against many popular lagers and it always came out well (hic). Still nobody drank it and it has gone to brewers heaven.

Somebody mention barley wine. I'm sure there will be some on sale this weekend at the National Winter Ales Festival in Manchester. There is certainly porter. I will research the ales on behalf of the massive. Think I might start with the Brooklyn Chocolate Stout from the USA at 8.5% ABV. Scheeerss!

http://www.alefestival.org.uk/winterales/

The original Carlsberg Export brewed in Copenhagen, hence the repicla Little Mermaid atop the pump. It was very rare round my neck of the Welsh woods but I remember it being rather potent. And did anyone ever try Underberg, 'The One-Shot Drink'? It was sold as a hangover cure, despite being 86% proof, and came in tiny bottles stored in a bandolier draped behind the bar. It was a staple of many a mid-70s pub, almost as much so as the nuts (KP?) that came mounted on a display card featuring a semi-clad model; the more nuts that were bought, the more of the model you got to see. The past is indeed another country.

I pray that this evil concoction is no longer available to the general public.

Did I miss this one above? I still have a Red Barrel key ring somewhere in the house. The beer was very ordinary. And I distictly remember my dad (90 in a few weeks time) drinking Whitbred Light Ale: haven't seen that about for a while.

Responsible for my first drunk, aged 15. Never, ever again.

There are some marvellous drinks to start young men into a life of rack and ruin. And who of us haven't filled a small bottle with an inch or so of everything from the parents "cocktail cabinet" and quaffed it quick?

my friends and I celebrated each others birthday with the birthday boy drinking a pint of Worseley (actually dont know the spelling but its irrelevant). Basically it was half a lager or bitter in a pint glass with the second half of the glass filled up with as many different shorts as possible ie. Drambuie, Bacardi, Rum Whiskey Vodka!! These days it would probably come with a health warning and it probably explains some of my missing brain cells!!

Round our way off-licences sold cheap wine & spirits on draught. So my mate Sag (honest!) would take an empty Vimto bottle and have it filled with whisky, wine and whatever else came to mind. The name on the label was suitably crossed out and replaced with NITRO.

Scott mentioned Diamond White. I believe this drink is still on sale, probably from those inner city off-licences that have their interiors screened off by perspex.

I don't think the same can be said of its partner-in-crime, the proto-alcopop Castaway, a mix of white wine and fruit juice. These two together were the constituent parts of the "cocktail" known as Blastaway.

Rather less prosaically, the unlikely combination of a bottle of Diamond White mixed with a half of Newcastle Brown was known, by my Geordie mates at least, as a pint of shit. With good reason.

Actually, that is the slogan for this Dutch beer, imported into the UK. The Aussies don't seem to like it though...

Never seen it in the shops, only at a pubs & restaurant trade exhibition. Very popular stand but not as popular as the absinthe sampling area. Hic! I once recall alcoholic slush - another passing fad long gone.

No-one has mentioned this "beer", which Richard Boston, in his book Beer and Skittles, claimed contained so little alcohol it could have been legally sold as a soft drink. I never tasted it, so this is the only comment I can make. Unlike Red Barrel it never got advertised in the north so it probably never got sold there.
Which reminds me of all those alcohol free beers, as advertised by Lawrie McMenemy et al. Why did they cost so much? No alcohol = no duty = profit for the breweries.

I remember drinking this at university
Not sure how or why I remember it

According to my father, Roses Bitter used to be the creme de la creme of bitters in North Yorshire.It's no longer available and I fear the same will happen to Tetley as well, when the brewery moves out of Leeds it will be the beginning of the end. It's hard enough to get a pint of decent hand pulled Tetley round these parts, apart from my local and a couple of bars in town. Tetley Smooth is a no no and must be avoided at all costs! Would like to have tasted Roses though.

Every pub in Romford had did a very brisk trade during the 1980's. Taboo, (the red one) survived its green counterpart by some years and was latterly available in little pre mixed cans, (mixed with lemonade). A kind of poor girl's Campari.

Not big. Not clever. Very very ugly

...but a favourite Sunday lunchtime recovery drink used to be 'Muddy Water' - Coke and Orange Juice - they need to be stirred together and form a think brown emulsion.

Great as a hangover cure though!

Am I the only one that used to drink spirits with a shot of orange squash?

I sincerely hope so...

Tiny bottles sold from an ammo belt hung up behind the bar. Apparently a wonder cure for hangovers, never dared try it after watching a mate (who was very hungover), down one and immediately projectile vomit over the barman.

We didn't stay in the pub very long.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underberg

National spirit of the Czech Republic, tastes like liquefied bonfire toffee. Vile. Still drank it though, obviously.

I never, ever, met anyone who drunk Russchian. Amazingly, it's still available. A mixer designed especially for vodka, the colour of dentist's mouthwash.

The late Queen Mums essential fuel (Lawd bless her etc etc etc): when she came to open up the new Students Union building some years back, the advice was that she be given a large one on arrival, seeing it was late in the day for her (10a.m.)She hoovered it and many more over the course of the visit, before being sick on the red carpet.
(Made the last bit up, but the rest is true and not at all atypical.)

What WAS the name of that French guy who used to deliver the "Du 'av a Dubonnet...." line on TV ads back when the world was young? Some beer marques are being revived I notice, like Kents Best from much maligned Faversham brewers Shepherd-Neame, its actually rather good too. Stand by for Red Barrel Revival (not so good)

Greenall Whitney land.

Drinks for girls with made up names. So very Eighties.

What exactly was Bezique?

..I remember reading in Pete Brown's excellent book on the history of beer drinking Man Walks Into A Pub that Caffrey's ale was a marketing disaster, as the mix of it being pumped with nitrogen to make it creamy and swirly combined with it's alcohol content of 5 per cent meant that "the Caffrey's hangover was one of the worst comedowns this side of heroin".

After sales plummeted due to drinkers not wanting to ever repeat this experience,
it's makers tried reducing it's alcohol content, but it was all too late.
.

Y'know, I used to wonder why that Caffrey's used to hurt the head so much! I suppose those other creamy ones eg John Smiths, Worthington, were the same - damn stuff goes down too quickly as well....
Hey anyone seen Gold Label Barley Wine around lately? The editor of a long gone magazine I used to help out at used to down that at lunchtimes and go back to work happy as Larry (while some who might try to compete were slumped lifeless over a typewriter)

PS typewriter - arcane machine for producing letters and numbers direct on paper. Noisy, and heavy when thrown.

And I mean 10 or 11 here, I was regularly given Mathers' Black Beer with Ben Shaws' Yellow Lemonade to make a Sheffield Stout.

Following the family move to Devon, trips back to yorkshire always involved shipping a few bottles of black into the boot along with a crate of Ben Shaws goodness (yellow lemonade, pineappleade, cream soda, Benzade- their version of a popular energy drink, and orangeade). I was about 19 when I realised black beer had an alcohol content. No wonder I was subdued and happy in my youth!

Brandy and babycham
(lethal and will also dissolve your stomach lining)

Dubonnet and soda
(sickly and virtually impossible to get drunk on)

Cinzano and lemonade
(barf)

Gin and lime
(again, bye bye stomach lining!)

As an enthusiastic real ale lover I've had my fair share of beers with "Old" in their name. You know ... "Old Growler", Old "Peculiar", "Old dog breath" etc, but by far one of my worst experiences came in the 80s when for some inexplicable reason one Christmas Eve, Brandy and Babysham seemed like a good idea ... erm, no it wasn't.

However, this was topped by a brew at the other end of the scale. Again in the 80s someone (I think it was Guinness) marketed an alcohol free bottled bitter called Smithwick's. Initially this was a good solution for the driver. Tasted a bit like beer and looked like beer, both in and out of the bottle. Unfortunately, the downside was that it also gave me a hangover headache so violent I thought my head was going to explode. Never touched it again.

Erm do you mean they brought out an alcohol free version of Smithwicks or did you think that it was alcohol free? *confused*

You sure you're not thinking of Kaliber?

Oranjeboom - you can still get this in quite a few pubs in London, my favourite being The Prince of Wales in Cleaver Square, Kennington, which is jointly owned by Dave Ball of Soft Cell fame (he can often be found propping up the bar with his mate Richard Norris from the Grid).

Mackesons - when my poor Nan was very ill is hospital last year this was what she asked for - cue my Mum and Auntie driving round various supermarkets in Kent until they eventually found it. Nan loved it and was pissed as a fart after a can of that.

Kilkenny - does anyone remember this? Irish cream ale similar to Caffreys with the same "a pig shat in my head" style hangovers due in part to the nitrogenated head. Seems to have disappeared without a trace.

Oranjeboom is the predominant lager for the undiscerning down our way; it's another Shepherd-Neame brew. So not "used to drink", still do, if not in a fussy mood and having a break from proper beer.

When I was a young lad of 13 I would implausibly get served in pubs despite my shortness of stature. Everyone in my little set used to drink a Guinness + Bitter. On one occasion I had a bit of trouble conveying my order to the barman of a remote country pub and he served me with a half of bitter with a measure of gin in it.

I drank it just to avoid embarrassment. I don't even like gin. Or bitter, really...

Did you know there was a Pink version for The ladies called "Diamond Blush" ?

There were still selling barley wine 2 years back in a small supermarket near me when I lived in East Finchley in London. I tried a bottle of the stuff out of curiousity, and have to say this revolting tramps tipple made Tennants Super taste like vintage Bollinger in comparison.

I still see Diamond White in the odd mini market, but suspect it's place in the chart of superstrong cider for hobos has been replaced by White Ace - another lethal brew with a minimal link to apples that comes in 59 pence cans, as well as the handy 1 litre bottle at a piffling £1.50.

Polaris?! lol. I'm guessing drinking this stuff leaves feeling like you've been nuked the next day...

to a dull roar will you. I've just got back fron the Winter Ales beer festival. Sampled the winning beer before it sold out; Atilla. Great name but 7.5% proof. Which meant I never got around to the Sgt. Pepper Stout but did manage the Lonesome Pine from the Ulverston brewery.

There's an idea for saving the record shops and pubs - combine the two! Let's go down the Mott The Hoople for a couple of pints and watch a DVD of the boys in action. Sorted.

Got a few beers in for the boys down the Firkin Podcast: Old Peculier and Old Growler. Boom boom!

Now where's me bloody bucket....

I remember:

* adverts for Beer at home means Davenport - they would deliver it to you in bottles served in a crate - may have been a midlands thing.

* Smithwicks. In the UK it was low alcohol. I discovered the real stuff when visiting Ireland with my Wife in 1991.

* A dark lager being sold in the early 1980's - does anyone remember it

* whitbread slowly reducing their regional breweries. They named their property regions after their local brews - South East was Fremlins, South west was Flowers - Cant remember anymore

* Brew11 and also I think Brew10 - any once else remember these >

As a 15 year old trying to be grown-up and sophisticated I would order Bacardi and coke, later on it was dry Martini and lemonade...

No-one has mentioned Moosehead Lager - I think it was Canadian. Mid to late 80s we used to drink it occasionally as it was quite hard to find.

Mid to late 90s there were other alcopops apart from hooch, I remember a line called Woodys that had a vanilla cream soda version.

We also invented a drink that we named "A shot in the dark" - pour half a bottle of Woodys cream soda into a pint glass, float a half of Guinness on top, drop in a shot of Tia Maria. YUM!!

Then I worked in a pub in Stockport in the late 90s for a couple of years. A half bitter and half lager was known as a pint of mixed or a chinese. And we did a fine line in dark rum and blackcurrant Hooch or gin and Lemon Hooch - absolute rocket fuel.

Once time the landlord fell out with some of our regulars and ended up in a fight with them resulting in him being punched in the eye. For the next week they would all order snakebite and black, locally known as a 'red eye'...

Happy days !!

would embarrass the crap out of us in pubs by insisting on Taboo and bloody lemonade when we wanted to drink beer with twigs in it, like Marston's Owd Roger or Black Sheep Riggwelter.

Going around the Black Sheep Brewery a few years back on the brewery tour, the tour guide intoned seriously to the small touring party that the rather potent Riggwelter was 'not a session beer'. All we could do was look askance at each other and say, 'oh, isn't it?'

used to love this stuff (i think) it does'nt seem to exist anymore but the advert is still creepy

Yeah I used to quite like it too - that and Mule which was basically Bacardi and Soda with some lime in it. IIRC, that ad made it into the Top 100 Scariest Moments...?

Does anyone remember a precursor to the "Big Head" ads in which a cartoon character dubbed Stanley hilariously performed all manner of unfeasible feats of derring-do to be asked by an awestruck admirer

"How do you do it, Stanley?"

To which our intrepid hero launched into a jingle which went:

"Oh, it's Tankard that helps you exce-ell
"After one you can do anything well"

with a big comedy trombone ending.

Youngers Scotch Bitter also had a series of ahead-of-their-time surreal ads round about 82-85, there is one on YouTube they were absolutely wondrous.

Haven't read all the thread but has anyone mentioned Party Sevens? We used to send the big lad who had a bit of fluff on his lip into the offie for one then sneak it into wherever someone had a bona fide baby sitting gig, divide it up then pinch whatever other alcohol was foolishly left about by the owners of the house, become ill then leave before the parents came home ensuring that the babysitter would get a right bollocking over broken ornaments, detritus, barfed-on carpets etc

Consisted of a Snakebite (larger & cider) with a shot of Blue Bols. Interestingly, the mixture was green rather than blue. A favourite of the Sheffield University Student Union bar.

A beer sold in Whitbread pubs in the early 70s and marketed as 'The Young Man's Drink'. Not enough young men took to it however, and it soon disappeared. Trophy lived on but of course dreadful lager was set to dominate the universe.

James and Oz drink Britain, lovely gentle ale-centric telly. lovely. Made me want to sink a few.

have some answers.

Crusader lager was the dark lager in the '80's - never tried it.

A small can beer was given to patients on long stay geriatric wards where I worked in the late '70's with their evening meal (If they wished).

Guinness was given to breast-feeding mothers (to keep their strength up).

If you had the opportunity to try proper draught Brew XI it was a real treat.
Most places in the'70's served the keg rubbish which is why it had a deservedly poor reputation.

Bulmers No 7 Cider
+
Special Brew
+
Ribena

Yum...then fall down in a teenage gibbering mess.

I remember a brief flirtation with Grunhalle "gold" some wickedley "silly" juice. My freind Garry and myself only dared mess with it and imbume between 21:30/23:00 on friday eves. It all ways made the kebab radar kick in at 00:00. happy lost memories of '88/'89. Amazingly Garry can still sing in a professional capacity. obviously I went into education (again)

I remember when I was little there was a drink called Brifcor:)) It was my favorite drink at the time. I`d love to find at least one bottle to remember it`s taste, for the sake of our past times. Even heard about a family who put their baby names after this drink.

with a shot of pernod in it :(