PSA: Banks's Amber Bitter 90p at Tesco

[Globalti]

Just picked up my second batch of these from Tesco. For only 90p you can't go wrong but it's actually a very decent session bitter at ABV 3.8%

They don't even seem to be selling very well, which can only be because people think it's too cheap to be any good.

 

[Milzy]

It’s not Brill but for 90 p yes!

 

[Chromatic]

It is 89p in Aldi and Lidl. I've posted about it in the past but can't seem to add a quote of my previous post for some reason, technological incompetence probably.

 

[Gunk]

I’d rather spend another 35p on Hobgoblin, Aldi usually do it for £1.25

 

[sheddy]

I thinks it's been at 90p at Tesssa for yonks.
I always stock up if I have the car.

 

[raleighnut]

It is 89p in Aldi and Lidl. I've posted about it in the past but can't seem to add a quote of my previous post for some reason, technological incompetence probably.

They used to do this,


a far more paletable pint.

 

[Globalti]

So it's what you might call a "cooking bitter". I didn't realise it was on permanent sale, don't go to Tesco very often.

 

[cyberknight]

I tried morrisons 4 pack of export lager over x mas , £3 .
Dont get me wrong its not the best i have ever drunk but its nice enough

 

[Chromatic]

They used to do this,
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a far more paletable pint.

A pity they still don't, I quite like a pint of mild.

 

[Pale Rider]

Banks's pubs used to have unusual draught pumps.

The beer was in a clear glass container which was horizontally mounted on the bar as part of the pump.

Operation was by a joystick lever.

One throw of the lever to dispense a half, two to dispense a pint.

You could see the plunger move inside the glass container as it pushed the beer out one end and sucked more beer in the other.

 

[DaveReading]

it's actually a very decent session bitter

Is that another way of saying that its not too bad after the first 3 or 4 ?

 

[ianrauk]

I’d rather spend another 35p on Hobgoblin, Aldi usually do it for £1.25

This ^

 

[Globalti]

Banks's pubs used to have unusual draught pumps.

The beer was in a clear glass container which was horizontally mounted on the bar as part of the pump.

Operation was by a joystick lever.

One throw of the lever to dispense a half, two to dispense a pint.

You could see the plunger move inside the glass container as it pushed the beer out one end and sucked more beer in the other.

Pubs in Newcastle had these when I started drinking in the 70s. Funnily enough I was thinking about them recently and I reckoned they may have been used because drinkers were always complaining about cloudy beer, floaters, short measures and just about anything that would get them a free refill. Someone told me you could stop all conversation in a pub if you held up your glass, stared at it and exclaimed "Floaters!" in a loud voice. Drinking was a serious business.

 

[Pale Rider]

Drinking was a serious business.

It certainly was.

Years ago I called into The Brewery Tap in Sunderland, which stood on the corner of the large Vaux brewery site.

It was full, as usual, of drunken draymen - horse drawn drays in those days.

My pint was off, leading me to ask for it to be changed.

"I will give you another one," said the barmaid reluctantly.

At which a customer shouted: "Why aye man, free beer!"

"Who's he, like?" said another.

For an uncomfortable few seconds I was centre of attention.