Suits

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi Shipmates, Ref Bass beer we had a bass house in Cardiff sold it in half pints only {called the barley mow} also sold barley wine, that was a crazy drink many working women drunk it? That drink done no one any good allways trouble after a few ? Ref Suits no one wore one in that place. ruff and ready in them days, became a posh pub after it was closed down by the law, due to fights and females... it was a fun night out ... so they say ...

[happy daze john in oz]

Talking of Bass as Louis was does it still exist? Red label and White labelwhere very popular as was White and Green Worthington. Barley wine in small bottles, had a mate whos wife only drank that.

[robpage]

The Brewery and Worthington and Carling brands were sold to Moulson-Coors , AB-InBev retained the Bass name and it is brewed under contract by Marstons in Burton

[gray_marian]

#51 & #53 Louis & Rob, Does Barley Wine still exist? If not is there an equivalent today? What did it taste like? Thank you, Marian

[robpage]

The biggest-selling Barley Wine for years was Whitbread's 10.9% Gold Label, now available only in cans. Bass's No 1 Barley Wine (10.5%) is occasionally brewed in Burton-on-Trent, stored in cask for 12 months and made available to CAMRA beer festivals. Fuller's Vintage Ale (8.5%) is a bottle-conditioned version of its Golden Pride and is brewed with different varieties of malts and hops every year. My favourite was Marstons Owd Roger ( 7.6% ) mainly in bottles but occasionally on draught

[John Gill]

used to be a lethal brew served in Bents Brewery pubs in Liverpool named Bentox or locally known as Red Biddy. More toxic than a litre of Aussie White in Yates' Wine Lodge. the sort of stuff you used to put in your petrol years age to prevent 'pinking' very cheap too. (i believe)

[Jim Brady]

John G was the Oyster Bar a Bass house or was it next door Ma Egertons I think.I remember still a kid at the time paid off a Lamport boat galley boy went into town with the asst.stwd was in that Bass house.Met two girls I dont know where we ended up at the back of the CO-OP Byron Street,the next thing one shouted to the other the next thing off they went.We jumped a cab I was first drop,got to our house reached for my wallet gone.Dont worry my mate said I'l get it,I met him the next day his wallet had gone as well.That was my first time drinking PINTS of Draught Bass.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[cappy]

#57 glad we don't have girls like that in shields......they might be in north shields were john sabourn comes from

[Jim Brady]

Cappy i remember when i got in my mother was not amused at me being drunk and she did go bananas when I said i had lost my wallet.I mummbled about a girl and that was it my mother and my sisters having a go at me.I'm not sure i did'nt get a crack around the ear.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[cappy]

#59 and rightly so ......alwayskept my pay off in my socks .till I left it with granny