Club Arnage

Youngs brewery in Wandsworth closed today :( :( :(

Thankyou Young's for:

Young's Bitter
Young's Special
Ram Rod and Special
Evil hangover's
Possible liver damage
Losing my car one night
Not remembering what I did on many evenings

But most of all brewing a very good pint.

R.I.P  :( >:( :( >:(

I'm with you there Barry, R.I.P. indeed. It's heartbreaking, I wasn't aware of the death of Young's, following Brakespear's. what a waste.... Still hope springs, will the brewing be moved elsewhere??

Hi Sav

Production moving to the Wells brewery in Bedford.
Unlikely to stay the same product though, change of breweries never seem to produce the same flavour/character.

wasn't it England's oldest brewery or something?

Similar thing has happened here in Hampshire. Gales brewery was bought out by Fullers recently and the production moved to London. They have tried their best to keep the product the same though by using the same hops and yeast and treating the water so it chemicaly matched the water used at the Hampshire brewery.

I haven't had any Gales since they shutdown Horndean, still in mourning. :(
Have they succeeded in recreating Horndean's best?
Even if they have I suspect if you try it in 10 years it will have the corporate taste.

I am AM 'ampshire boy  & FSB don't sound right even if they are using HSB etc.
I am missing the seasonal ales when i went to cowplain resently.

Jeezus - this reads like you had a few tonight, Andy!

Just spoke to him on the phone HE HAS ;D

The story run in one of the London papers on Tuesday reported that there had been a brewery on the site sionce 1581.

MG Mark

Talking of the dead, what happened to the evil dead, Double Diamond, LongLife, Worthington E or that filth Red Barrell. They weren't brewed for that length of time but they tasted as if they had been. Gruesome.

Rusty

Double Diamond is still on sale at our local community centre. It's the only place that I have seen it for years.

If I remember right it was awful stuff so what they are still selling is probably left overs from the 70s

Oh to remember the lunches of pints of 'mixed' (1/2ordinary-1/2special for the unitiatiated) or Ram&Spec for the latecomers.....
I have some hazy recollections but I presume that that's all the fault of the Ram&Spec!

The 'mixed' won't ever be quite the same methinks!

RIP

Cheers all
 ;D
Bionic

very fond memories of brewing day, what a stink, what great beer, not sure, but I seem to remember a passport system, whereby you visited all Youngs Hostelleries and have you passport stamped the net result was a certificate, never did get round to all of them, it was fun trying though.

From distant memory you got a 'passport andhad to get it stamped in all Young's pubs within a certain time (one month?) and you were then awarded a tie, other paraphinalia and ......a barrel of Youngs! I must admit that realism/cowardice took over and I never undertook the task!

Did any CA members?

I am sure that they would have fond memories (!)
 ;D
Bionic

the mob i was working with at the time we were based near smithfield market, one brave chap had a stab at it, are you sure it was just a month?  we were fond of a few sherbets at the time but even so it would be pushing it.

Could have been longer, but I seem to recall that none of the crew that I was partook of refreshment with had the nerve to try......., and these were those who would think nothing of 'defrosting' their vehicles standing on the bonnets! (then being the passengers!)

 :o
Bionic

Seem to have partaken again tonight (or so the computer would say!). My last posting seems to leave something to the imagination......
Had a pint of Youngs on the way home.....could be the last...


 :'(
Bionic

usual excuse on here is to blame it on the voices, it seems to work most of the time.

They always seem to say "Just one more, just one more!"

Sometimes you just have to give in! ;D

Bionic

Bionic

Gales did a similar thing about 20 years back. Never made it round the whole lot but got the T-shirt for visiting 50+

Granny

How many times did you overdo things in the attempt?
Now with clearer memory a couple of colleagues started the Youngs round but overrefreshed in the first few so decided that the wallets would take too much of a bashing.........

How's the South without Gales, or are gales forecast?

Bionic

I remember one bash during a summer long ago which was held at an architects practice, once all the drink had gone we disappeared over too The Lamb and Flag in Covent Garden, just a couple for the road. I can recall waiting for the train home at Kings Cross it was still daylight, at Mill Hill where i lived at the time it was the last train and the early hours of the morning, where i had been in between times god only knows.  Fortunately the girlfriend was very understanding and found me walking along Mill Hill High St and got me home safe.

I bought a bottle of DD in 1989 from a pub when I was 16 for a laugh, I ended up not drinking it and keeping it as it was already 8 months past it's sell by date.
I found it the other day in a box of junk!

Talking of the dead, what happened to the evil dead, Double Diamond, LongLife, Worthington E or that filth Red Barrell. They weren't brewed for that length of time but they tasted as if they had been. Gruesome.

Rusty

Ahh, Rusty, you've stirred some memories there.

I remember Double Diamond Party 7's and the less prolific Party 4.

The cans were made from what felt like quater inch plate. None of this modern day namby pamby aluminium alloy!

I can recall empty (and sometimes not so empty) Party 7's being hurled at the stage at Reading Rock (as it was called then).

I think I was 12, it was 1978 and Motorhead were on stage.

Ah, good ol' Double Diamond.

"A Double Diamond works wonders works wonders works wonders
A Double Diamond works wonders so drink one today"

Ohhh!

Nostalgia!

I think we forgot McEwans Export, in all the excitement.

The memories of the 'Party Sevens'!......... Don't you remember when you were going to a 'less popular' venue that the can would be shaken, not stirred, to ensure that when opened in the kitchen 5 out of the seven pints would spend the next two hours dripping onto peoples heads......
I know it was peurile but I was younger then!

 ;D

When hosting parties the dreaded 'sevens' were always taken outside to be dealt with.......It always surprised me why so many were sold since you only ever seened to be able to drink two pints out of every seven!...Good marketing ploy I suppose!

 8)

Bionic

Do you also remember that no-one ever had a can opener, so you had to try and make a hole with a screwdriver or some similar object!
Trouble was the hole was so small it Took ages to pour it out.

Yes those little metal can openers would guarantee everyone a soaking of warm beer, the worst thing was to be timid with it and just punch a small hole as this would just vaporise the whole lot into a fine mist. I remember one bright spark opening one with a screwdriver and hammer when no can opener could be found, the resultant geezer soaked absolutely everything leaving no more than a couple of pints,everything else was left swilling around the kitchen floor when it tipped over whilst jettisoning its contents. Perhaps thats why they were so cheap as the resulting shinkage still made them good value for money.
Rusty

I remember at one party we put one in the freezer for a while to chill it. Totally forgot about it and the following morning we had a 7 pint ice lolly in a tin with bulged ends.

Goes to show the high alcohol contnent that it actually froze!

I still have the barrel somewhere but needless to say it's empty.