katyjay 5,091 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Article in today's Nottingham Post. I thought someone else would have spotted it. Not being a beer drinker I can't comment if it's a good thing or bad. http://www.nottinghampost.com/Nottingham-ale-Shippo-s/story-19489841-detail/story.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,090 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Was never a Shippos fan. Top of the list was always Home Ales, closely followed by Kimberley. And although I liked Shippos Nut Brown (in a quart bottle from the offie), their bitter was mostly only consumed for its laxative effect, which was second only to Ruddles for that. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Let's have Ted Heath and Wilson back too... they turned your stomach as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 'Nut Brown' oh Sorry it was Gordon Brown! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Shippo's- Nottinghams laxative........................kept the staff at Stoke Bardolph busy................probably blacked a few eyes, & made a few babies an'all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MELTONSTILTON 452 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 When I was young we used to say "Home makes you grunt and groan, but Shippo's makes you sh*t" But will the Belvoir Brewery, Shippo's, from Old Dalby taste like the old stuff ? It is good to see the old name back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Only liked shippo's 5 star keg, the Nut Brown looked like crude oil Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Round Basford it was known as Bipstone's Shitter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Was my grandads favourite tipple at his local The Red Heart in Ruddington. He had a pint every day of his adult life (well he was down to half pints in his later years) and lived until he was 92 so it couldn't have done him any harm. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Now i just need the eye of a needle. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
picapica 0 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Whatho all, This is odd as Shippos has been back for some time. It was claimed Star Bitter from Belvoir Brewery was an old Shipstone's recipe. However when I tried it in the Horse & Groom some time ago, it tasted far too bitter. Nottingham bitters had a slight sweet and creamy feel about them. Oh and those lovely electric pumps where you could see the ale in a glass cylinder. Cheers, Mark (remembering the Belle Vue) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted July 9, 2013 Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 Never could see the attraction of Shipstones. As I've mentioned before here, it always tasted like a penny in your mouth. In fact a lot of the 'name' beers in the midlands weren't high on my list - particularly when I was a student and prone to drinking. I do remember drinking Davenports many years ago when they opened a pub in Loughborough and loved the taste of that. There are some very good micro-breweries in Notts these days though - maybe it's one of those that has tried to revive the Shippo's name. We had a party for my sister in law a few years back and got a barrel in from one of these small breweries - I think it might have been Castle Rock. Everyone said how good the beer was. So there's obviously some decent beer in Notts, but I have to say I would never have recommended the revival of Shipstones as was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,090 Posted July 9, 2013 Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 Oh and those lovely electric pumps where you could see the ale in a glass cylinder. Yes! I'd forgotten all about those. Standing at the bar, watching the beer going through the pump and wishing it would go a bit faster when you were gagging for a drink... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 10, 2013 Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 Only liked shippo's 5 star keg, the Nut Brown looked like crude oil I think it was Home that brewed 5 star bitter or did Shippo's do one too? About the revamp of Shippstones I don't think it will taste quite the same as the water is not the same. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LocalGel 2 Posted July 10, 2013 Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 Hmm - dunno if might be just a 'gel' thing or not but the fact is - all I remember about Shipstones beer is the Horses that were still used for delivering some of it! It was Shippo's wasn't it who kept the heavy horses for beer delivery around the centre of Nottingham? Crikey - the whole road used to shake when they were coming. Wonderful to see (well I thought so) but then it didn't remotely matter to me how fast the beer got to where it was going. Hard to imagine that most deliveries were done the same way once and it wasn't all that many years back either. I did partake of the odd Home Ales in a shandy but that was really a family thing because of my Dad working at the home Brewery. Probably classed as a criminal act by the Real Alers though to admit to mixing a good beer with lemonade! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted July 10, 2013 Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 Hmm - dunno if might be just a 'gel' thing or not but the fact is - all I remember about Shipstones beer is the Horses that were still used for delivering some of it! It was Shippo's wasn't it who kept the heavy horses for beer delivery around the centre of Nottingham? Now there's an idea - it would be good publicity if they did their deliveries the old way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted July 10, 2013 Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 I had a friend who's father was a ostler for Shippo's at the stables on Northgate. By them shires weren't half big. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 My granddad did the same job there, he grew up in a farming community in North Notts [North Wheatley] and also worked with horses in WW1, so we reckoned that's how he got the job at Shippos. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted July 10, 2013 Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 I just wondered if anyone can recognise the road the Shippo's Hosses are on in the photo's,it was a familia sight to me walking up Huntingdon Street on my way to work,the road looks like so many in those days with the cobbles,and i can't work out were it may be, so as to know which pubs they might be delivering to. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted July 10, 2013 Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 According to Picture the Past - where they came from - the first photo is Fisher Road, Hyson Green, and the second photo is in the brewery yard at Radford Road. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted July 10, 2013 Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 Ah thanks,for some reason i thought it was round the Alfred Street area,but they are all similar,Those hosses are fantastic,what a sight to see and the sound of the hoofs on the cobbles, never to forget. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 I think there's another thread on Shippo's hosses somewhere on here, and I'm most likely repeating myself from that thread, but I remember being on a number 22 bus going up Alfreton Road after passing Bentinck Rd, a slight incline all the way up to Canning Circus. And the bus being behind a Shippo's dray struggling to pull it's full load up that road, the bus crawling behind. I'd give anything to be on that bus again behind those magnificent horses. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 See also Shippo's Oss and A Tough one for you!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gem 1,430 Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Reading bubblewraps post regarding shipstones not tasting the same, as the water will be different. When the brewing of Newcastle Brown Ale was moved from Newcastle to Tadcaster a lot of people said it tasted different and blamed the water. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 There was a photo in the post from the launch @ the old shipos brewery theres one of our members on there ? Babs knows him. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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