Please Be Good and a Success.Boddingtons.

[crublue1]

They would have filled it, it was that small.

I never went in the place, I was too young, in them days kids weren't allowed in boozers, as you know.
It's shut now I think.
My Grandad worked at Lukes + Spencer, if you remember that? It was near where b+q is now I think, from memory.
He's the reason I'm a blue.

 

[WestGorton]

I knew about this. JWL are taking it on. Happy days.

 

[WestGorton]

Manchester Bitter from The Marble Arch in town is apparently a clone of the old recipe. Im not old enough to have tried the original so can't compare, but it is nice

Similar but darker in colour. The original was 3.8 ISH and like drinking a less sweet honey with cream on top. The best pint ever in history.

 

[NPBlue]

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

12p a pint there in 1973, and the same price in the Cheshire Cheese just down the road, also a Boddies pub.

They were rammed at lunchtime with people from the nearby engineering works, sinking their beers and feasting on Hollands meat and potato pies with dollops of HP sauce to enhance the taste.

 

[unicorn]

Early reports from the real ale bores on CAMRA are surprisingly positive, apart from fuss about the yeast used.

It's not being sold through the entire Lees estate, though it's on at their flagship pub in Albert Square (Founders Hall).

I'd try it at the reopened Crown on Heaton Lane in Stocky. Those Petersgate Tap lads know how to keep a pint. They're selling Bass, too.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

12p a pint there in 1973, and the same price in the Cheshire Cheese just down the road, also a Boddies pub.

They were rammed at lunchtime with people from the nearby engineering works, sinking their beers and feasting on Hollands meat and potato pies with dollops of HP sauce to enhance the taste.

There were some good old firms down Atlantic st. It's all changed now...having said that I'd probably get lost there now. Cartwrights trailers, Budenbergs round the corner, even Cotton traders with all the women standing outside on their fag break, just to name a few

 

[blue b4 the moon]

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

Used to go there with my pub to play Pool, great that they had 2 teams there so I got double to nights to drink Boddies there.

Still remains the best pint of Boddies I have ever had....I believe there was a stream running through the cellar which helped?

 

[Big mals fedora]

There were some good old firms down Atlantic st. It's all changed now...having said that I'd probably get lost there now. Cartwrights trailers, Budenbergs round the corner, even Cotton traders with all the women standing outside on their fag break, just to name a few

Tilghman wheelabrators!!! Used to pick up and drop off from there when I was an apprentice. Used to love it cos my company used to let me drive a flat back truck to pick up/ drop off. As an 18yrs old I thought I had made it!!

 

[heslops barnet]

Was brought up on Boddies bitter…..8 pints & a bag of chips for £1 on a Friday night…..great memories

 

[CTID1988]

Just remembered my first pint in a pub was Boddies, when I was about 15. Me and my mates loved The Macc Lads and drank nothing but boddies because that's what they supped. I can still vividly remember the boddies shites the next day, almost fruity smelling. A lovely bouquet

 

[canyerdogputoutafire]

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

Try their Manchester pale ale, it's surprisingly good.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Try their Manchester pale ale, it's surprisingly good.

I have and it’s ok tbf. Their craft lager is ok too. Had them both in the Elizabethan in Heaton Moor. But only ok.

Still wouldn’t rank their beers overall though and they’ve never seemed to travel well either. I also think they don’t sit in the lines well so if a pub doesn’t shift high volumes (like the Elizabethan does) then it degrades quite quickly.

Actually know the guy who bought the Shipstone’s brand a few years back who’s been brewing it since and he does pretty well out of it, but that’s in and around Nottingham for a brand that wasn’t nationally known. The dynamics will be different here because this was a national brand and AB InBev are corporate cunts.

 

[urban genie]

Duttons on Albert Sq tastes smooth and like I remember £5.65 though so back onto the cheaper bitter

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Balls to all this, can someone recreate an authentic pint of Marston's Pedigree circa 1988?

 

[urban genie]

wilsons sor websters too

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Balls to all this, can someone recreate an authentic pint of Marston's Pedigree circa 1988?

Ask 'Owd Roger ?

 

[urban genie]

Need to change it to Cream of Greater Manchester tbf, it is being brewed in rochdale after all ;-)

 

[Corky]

Balls to all this, can someone recreate an authentic pint of Marston's Pedigree circa 1988?

They had Pedigree on at Pride Park when we played there last under Sven in the midweek 1-1.

You could still smell the distinctive sulphur.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

My old fella worked at Boddington’s in the 90’s.

 

[Stephen230]

Used to love a pint of Boddies in my younger days. A few pubs off the top of my head that I frequented:

The Crown and The Jolly Carter in Northenden.
Grants and The Ducie in Hulme.
Packet and The Kings Head in Eccles.
Garrett in town.
The Bridge in Sale.

I think my last pint was probably when I walked in The Southern in Chorlton one afternoon and sensed a few funny looks when I ordered a pint. I looked around the bar and noticed that all the regulars were drinking it out of a can, even though they had it on draught. Not a good sign.