Man City Real Ales?

bluetonium said:
Kind of inspired by the De Niro drinks thread. As a real ale drinker, the sight of John Smiths and Fosters/Carlsberg at the stadium fills me with dread every match.

Would it be at all feasible for City to start a dialogue with a local brewer such as Hydes for a seasonal/monthly speciality ale? Would anyone else welcome this? Is the time right now to look into this?

I know storage for beer at the stadium is not the greatest, but I'm sure that exclusive beers for City with names like 'Wembley '99', 'First Ale On Mars' and 'Blue Moon Rising' would be a huge hit, giving the brewery profit and advertising and giving us fans a greater choice of beer.

Even better, whack a MCFC Beer Selection pack in the club shop and we can enjoy beer and city at any time anywhere.
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A Joey Holts concession on the concourse would be wonderful.

Or Lees/ Hydes

But better still Marble/ BHC/ Hornbeam

Would shirley be worth their time and effort to forge such a partnership too?!
 
the church end brewery have already made 2 city ales, "goater hell" and "dickovs delight". both hoppy crisp fruity ales . I posted the pump clips from both ales on here ages ago
 
This will never happen because it costs money.

The beer we get at the match is bought on the cheap 1 or 2 days from it's sell by date. Which is why it tastes like window cleaner.
 
whicko said:
The Bluemoon brand already exsists in the USA, i was drinking it recently, a very nice drink indeed, you are quite right Bluetonium i also think we are missing a trick not selling our own label ales.See description from Wiki below.



Blue Moon, a Belgian-style witbier brewed by the Molson Coors Brewing Company in Golden, Colorado, was launched in 1995. In Canada it is marketed as a similar beer called Rickard's White and is brewed in Montreal, Quebec[2]. Originally called Bellyslide Belgian White, it was created by Keith Villa, a brewer at Coors Field's Sandlot Brewery (the onsite brewery owned by the Molson Coors Brewing Company). The beer is orange-amber in color with a cloudy appearance because it is unfiltered. It is also spiced with coriander and orange peel in addition to the hops found in most beers. Blue Moon has a more pronounced orange flavor than many other beers of the style, and also has a slightly sweet flavor. The grain bill for Blue Moon includes malted barley, white wheat, and oats.
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Gorgeous beer, my mum brought me some back from Florida and drank it the other night, very, very good.

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Good to see such support for this idea. Maybe it is worth asking the club to consider the various ideas we have all already come up with here - City Square allows a bit more freedom for storage I would guess, and the idea of offering local beers doesn't just appeal to us regulars but also to anyone wanting to come to Eastlands and truly sample a piece of Manchester - balti pie and a real ale, welcome to manchester!

The rags have totally missed this market opportunity, going instead for the cheap tat mass produced scarves, hats etc etc. I think our ideas show a little more class, a little more pride in our community and history.
 
bluetonium said:
Good to see such support for this idea. Maybe it is worth asking the club to consider the various ideas we have all already come up with here - City Square allows a bit more freedom for storage I would guess, and the idea of offering local beers doesn't just appeal to us regulars but also to anyone wanting to come to Eastlands and truly sample a piece of Manchester - balti pie and a real ale, welcome to manchester!

The rags have totally missed this market opportunity, going instead for the cheap tat mass produced scarves, hats etc etc. I think our ideas show a little more class, a little more pride in our community and history.
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Agreed it would probably work better in City square. Could perhaps be served straight from the cask like at beer festivals so no cellaring etc required.

I'd have thought that one of the big boys such as Joey Holts/ JWL/ Hydes would absolutely leap at the chance to do a bit of co-branding and marketing with City on such an initiative. This would make City Square a far more interesting proposition for me.
 
not quite as easy as it sounds, first it needs to be cooled in the summer, not sure if this can be done with gravity fed pumps in the same way larger coolers work, secondly you just cant turn up with a cask of ale, it needs to rest and clear and also it needs tapping for a day. excellent idea though, havent had a good pint at a footy ground for 30 years!
 
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