Price of a beer vs. time worked.

[happy daze john in oz]

Hope you gave the blood before drinking the beer Brian. Otherwise the recipient would have come to suffering a hangover. Cheers John Sabourn.

For some poor sods that may have been the only way of getting one.

[Keith Tindell]

Hi This post got me thinking to some of the local nicknmes for beers, down here when i was at sea it was*boilermaker* ie brown and mild, never see mild on the pump now, in fact i was out with friends on Sunday and asked the barmaid if she had mild on the pumps, she looked at me as if from a strange planet!!!. I used to drink Boilermakers when i was young and at sea(1958), one and nine pence a pint. The other one was *drip and a drop* which was a pint of bitter with a splash of lemonade. Be interesting if similar names existed else where, regards KT

[Calvin Kent]

Keith, there are still over two hundred different milds brewed in the UK, mainly by micro-breweries. Most widely available is probably Marstons "Banks Original", and i have heard of barstaff thinking it is a bitter.

Regards
Calvin

[happy daze john in oz]

When I owned my two pubs in Kent we had light mild. It was the colour of bitter but a mild all the same, unlike most other milds that were always adrk. It was a beer peculiar to Trumans brewery and only availble in Kent.