Boddingtons Draught Bitter (24 x 440ml Cans)

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Was that Strangeways in the 1990s or was it keg/smallpack Boddies brewed at Magor/Samlesbury/Wellpark after Strangeways was closed? People always refer to the dryness and bitterness of this beer, but quite apart from the taste, what seemed remarkable about this beer and made it very different in my mind from others that I drank around the same time, was the attenuation.

Leo Burnett's Donald Gunn got so sick of the 'do award-winning ads shift product' debate that he decided to do some number crunching to settle the matter and nail the misconceptions once and for all". Henry Boddington, born in 1813 in Thame, Oxfordshire, joined the brewery in 1832 as a travelling salesman when the brewery was in the possession of Hole, Potter and Harrison. Marston’s Pedigree Ale 8 x 500ml The brewers only use natural Burton spring water and traditional varieties of barley and hops (Maris Otter Barley, Fuggles and Goldings hops), rather than less expensive, commercially grown, modern hybrids. The following year’s guide has “Not so hot” written against it, and my last annotated GBG (89) says “Avoid”.In 2017, Anheuser–Busch InBev announced that it was launching a digital, social, PR and video campaign for Boddingtons featuring Melanie Sykes who had appeared in adverts for the brand in 1997.

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A spokesman for the firm argued: "[The] building was built in the Victorian times and it is an old historic brewery but it was a victim of its age. There has been renewed interest in the Boddington’s cask-conditioned bitter that was produced in the 1960s to the 1980s.v=1650102900","width":600},{"alt":"Birra Moretti 8 Litre Blade Keg - Keg","id":20440673648691,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.

I remember it as a rather nice pint, certainly a lot better than the average for the time – other beers I tried in Manchester then were Wilsons, Warrington-brewed Tetleys and so on. In May 2000 the Whitbread Beer Company was acquired by the Belgian brewer Interbrew, which owned Stella Artois. Ray suggests he heard somewhere that they cleaned up the yeast at some point, which is plausible as a lot of breweries did that in the 1970s. v=1596112823","width":800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"This is a full-bodied whisky distinctive for its intense smokiness and layers of spice. I wonder if the switch to Triumf coincided with the dropping of lager malt, so in fact happened with the 1979 harvest?In 2010, it was speculated that InBev (known as Anheuser-Busch InBev from 2008 onwards) would attempt to sell the Boddingtons brand to another brewer after its failed attempt to sell the UK rights to Bass ale.