Please Be Good and a Success.Boddingtons.

[KS55]

The pics in the MUEN make the beer look amber: Boddies should be blond.

 

[Corky]

The popular brands who went to keg smooth and then try to go back to cask have very limited success.

Too much choice now.

 

[Platt Lane 59]

The pics in the MUEN make the beer look amber: Boddies should be blond.

Remember it being the palest bitter around Manchester, in 1979, when I moved here.
It was almost a straw colour.
Some great Boddie's pubs, including the Parrswood (mentioned earlier, which is now a Lees Pub) and the Club House near Stockport (sadly, long gone)...

 

[Bill Walker]

Remember it being the palest bitter around Manchester, in 1979, when I moved here.
It was almost a straw colour.
Some great Boddie's pubs, including the Parrswood (mentioned earlier, which is now a Lees Pub) and the Club House near Stockport (sadly, long gone)...

You're right about the colour.
I'm remembering a lot of nights in the Church Inn in Hyde in the early 70s.
The older blokes in the tap room looked like fucking zombies by 10pm, pissed every night on doctor Bodlingtons magic prescription. :)

Honourable mention also of the British Protection in Stalybridge.

 

[doots]

Sure I had a pint or three of it in the Ancoats Lad pub last year when that reopened?

 

[doots]

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Have they slashed the ABV?

ABV was reduced by Boddingtons before they sold the brand to Whitbread in 1989 iirc.

Think it went from 4.1% to 3.8%.

Whitbread didn’t change anything about the production of cask Boddies until it got moved from Strangeways to Hyde’s in (iirc) the early naughties.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Used to be around 4.5% I think. They're all at it, I was in Sainsburys yesterday and noticed that Grolsch is now 3.4%!! That was the first beer I got pissed on, definitely used to be at least 5%

I’m pretty sure it was never 4.5%

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Slightly troubling that it’s being brewed by JW Lees who are a very good pub retailer but a pretty poor brewer.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

33p a pint, Railway, Broadheath. And our bikes were propped up outside.....great days.

 

[beehive_bob]

There was also briefly the Manchester Gold which was quite a bit stronger than the 3.8% Boddies...think around 4.5/4.6%. Nice pint too.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Good for your complexion too

 

[Grassland Blue]

You're right about the colour.
I'm remembering a lot of nights in the Church Inn in Hyde in the early 70s.
The older blokes in the tap room looked like fucking zombies by 10pm, pissed every night on doctor Bodlingtons magic prescription. :)

Honourable mention also of the British Protection in Stalybridge.

The Pointsman was boddies too.
A right collection of rogues went in there!

 

[crublue1]

33p a pint, Railway, Broadheath. And our bikes were propped up outside.....great days.

My old man + Grandad used to drink in there, when I was a nipper. I was born round the corner, on Sinderland road.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Nobody should like drinking ale that tastes like a piss stained carpet and smells like roadkill.

I never realised that you were supposed to like it. I thought JWL was just a right of passage, proof you were a real man.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

Loved the taste of the old Boddies but hated the smell of hops brewing it made me feel sick.

Smell probably wasn't helped by Holt's brewery also being close by. Top end of Cheetham Hill Rd near Victoria could be pungent. Pretty sure Boddies used well water which may have given some of its distinctive taste.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Smell probably wasn't helped by Holt's brewery being close by. Top end of Cheetham Hill Rd near Victoria could be pungent. Pretty sure Boddies used well water which may have given some of its distinctive taste.

I still think it’s the smell of brewing hops that makes me feel sick.

 

[holty41]

the wellington lane was a Boddies pub when i lived in Clito street many years ago

 

[He’stheleftbackremember]

JWL bitter is lovely, well I think it is anyway.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

My old man + Grandad used to drink in there, when I was a nipper. I was born round the corner, on Sinderland road.

They would have filled it, it was that small.