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[prof beard]

As a right old git, I remember the beer world when CAMRA first started - a world of Watney's Red Barrel and closure by takeover of umpteen small local brewers. At that time I think CAMRA did serve a purpose in rasing awareness of the need to preserve proper ale - but, as is often the case with such organisations (and I think the "judging for "pub of the month" and inclusion in the GBG was the biggest thing) it became the preserve of annoying self-important people.... That's why I'm opposed to "certification" by "pressure groups" - vapers take note...

[ean33]

thank you markyd43

prof i may of served you with a pint of bathams or old hooky many moons ago
i left 18 years ago on new years day...seems like only yesterday in all honesty

[prof beard]

It would have been Bathams - I love Bathams

[ean33]

so many did, me included...such a unique taste

[samuelmunro]

prof beard, on 14 January 2012 - 11:05 AM, said:

I visited the "Brewers Droop"!

that's the name of Mark Knopfler's first band as I recall

[ean33]

ean33, on 14 January 2012 - 11:35 AM, said:

so many did, me included...such a unique taste

I do believe it was, the name behind the pub was the obvious...erm...shall we say unabilty to preform after to many glasses of ale
the courts rejected the name when we applied for a licence but we won an appeal when we said it was a condition a brewer would
suffer from leaning over a vat stirring hops and barley into a mix while brewing beer...yes we lied and got away with it

[jediknight129]

I was a member for the cheap fest tickets in all honesty thats it

[doc2803]

you did a great job with the brewers ean33, given its location, not on a main route, and those council flats oposite lowering the tone, the brewers was truly a diamond in the rough, we must have met on many ocasions, i was willenhall born and breed, moved away about 10 yrs ago.

Edited by doc2803, 25 March 2012 - 09:25 PM.

[ean33]

thank you doc it was hard work but worth it