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Quoted from Rodley Mariner

I'm not sure how easy it is to patronise people when you're a grown man pretending to be a dog on the internet.

Difficult but I try: after all 'it's a dogs life'.

The problem stems back decades. In the 1960's there was a frenzy of takeovers of small, regional breweries who had a long pedigree and cared passionately about the product they sold because their audience was local and knew what they liked.

The companies that bought them were the bigger national brewers who wanted to gain market share and economies of scale. Once bought the local breweries ceased to make their own ales and the new owners started pushing their own mass-produced product through the pubs they had just bought - Hewitts purchase by Bass is a prime example of this.

In the 1970's the move from cask ales to keg beer in order to increase profits sounded the death-knell for British ale-making. In the 1980's the biggest brewers just went through the motions of making beer as they had become nothing but money-making machines that cared little for product quality and customer satisfaction becasue they knew Joe Public had nowhere else to turn to.

Now our main breweries are foreign-owned and compete with each other to sell as much carbonated urine as they can. In the last 30 years standards have fallen so far that many people aged under 40 have little true appreciation for what ale can offer, other than as a means to get drunk quickly. The national palate is being destroyed and that is why twenty- and thirtysomethings think the likes of Fosters and Carling are great.

Thankfully some fine local brewers still remain - Bateman's for one - and ale production (as opposed to beer manufacture) is increasing with some fine microbreweries and their ales now out there.

Quoted from Shithouse Rat

Maybe, just maybe he wanted a pint of lager and not real ale.  Jesus there are some right pompus fuckwits that post on here.

How rude: do you talk to all Dogs like that or have I upset you?

Quoted from aaron rattray

I was in the dugout bar at the ground and that was a good place and i had a good chat with a telford fan and his younger child

What the bar where it was £3.40 a pint of lager and £2.30 half a coke.........ye it was ace!!!!!

Quoted from kingofthekippers

The problem stems back decades. In the 1960's there was a frenzy of takeovers of small, regional breweries who had a long pedigree and cared passionately about the product they sold because their audience was local and knew what they liked.

The companies that bought them were the bigger national brewers who wanted to gain market share and economies of scale. Once bought the local breweries ceased to make their own ales and the new owners started pushing their own mass-produced product through the pubs they had just bought - Hewitts purchase by Bass is a prime example of this.

In the 1970's the move from cask ales to keg beer in order to increase profits sounded the death-knell for British ale-making. In the 1980's the biggest brewers just went through the motions of making beer as they had become nothing but money-making machines that cared little for product quality and customer satisfaction becasue they knew Joe Public had nowhere else to turn to.

Now our main breweries are foreign-owned and compete with each other to sell as much carbonated urine as they can. In the last 30 years standards have fallen so far that many people aged under 40 have little true appreciation for what ale can offer, other than as a means to get drunk quickly. The national palate is being destroyed and that is why twenty- and thirtysomethings think the likes of Fosters and Carling are great.

Thankfully some fine local brewers still remain - Bateman's for one - and ale production (as opposed to beer manufacture) is increasing with some fine microbreweries and their ales now out there.

Apparently, this post makes you an elitist beer snob.

Anyway, I've always been a little bit disappointed that I never had the chance to try any Hewitts beer. My Dad tells me it was pretty good. Not really a great fan of Batemans beer, to tell the truth, although I've sunk a few XXXB over the years as that's not a bad pint.

Bateman's ales certainly have a unique taste. You can always tell a pint of Bateman's with your eyes shut.

Quoted from voice of reason

I'd say that sums you up too having an argument about what is a better pub with a 14/15 yr old...

What a strange bloke? you are: you obviously no nothing about me or Dogs in general. I think I'll blank you from now on. Plesae do not reply to any of my posts, thank you for understanding.

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Anyway, I've always been a little bit disappointed that I never had the chance to try any Hewitts beer. My Dad tells me it was pretty good.

Tell yer Dad he had excellent taste - Hewitts was a brilliant brew.  There was also an excellent pint of Old Tom at the Honest Lawyer (Carr Lane?)  Memory dims - or it could be the Hewitts!

Quoted from welshmariner

Tell yer Dad he had excellent taste - Hewitts was a brilliant brew.  There was also an excellent pint of Old Tom at the Honest Lawyer (Carr Lane?)  Memory dims - or it could be the Hewitts!

Was it Old Tom in the Spiders Web on Carr Lane ?

Quoted from pseudonym

Was it Old Tom in the Spiders Web on Carr Lane ?

Yus, the Spider's - that's the one!  I seem to remember a pianist there at the weekend? Old Tom was a beautiful dark old ale - strong, too.