Shippos is coming back


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That Ivor Thirst thing also used to be on the pub (various names over the years) next to Vic Station.

Shippo's has also gone upmarket, it is now drunk out of a Champagne flute.

#40 Known in New Basford where the brewery was as Bipstones Shitter. Mick you mean the quart bottles that used to be stacked in crates on the loading dock at the bottom left hand side of Northgate. T

in case no one gueesed he is the ginger one with the leather jacket

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There was a photo in the post from the launch @ the old shipos brewery theres one of our members on there ? Babs knows him.

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Shippo's has also gone upmarket, it is now drunk out of a Champagne flute.

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Lovely drinking weather, lovely Nottingham Ale,

We'll have a pint together and then I'll tell you a tale,

For we're all drinking Shippos, Hardey and Hanson and Home,

And we'll keep on drinking Shippos 'till somebody carries me home.....

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(Tune of Eton boating song)

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I visited the brewery around 1975.

as a non beer drinker at that time, I enjoyed tasting different brews.

It depended on how well it was kept. I had a lovely pint in the Loggerheads.

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I guess some people might say that Shipstones was an aquired taste (!)

I always regarded it as an example of what 'poor quality' English beer was all about.

In the same way that 'mild' was always thought of as the dregs or 'slops' from better quality stuff.

For me, Shipstones was always way down the list.

I don't know about the brewing method, but water from the River Leen ?

Wasn't there a saying about: 'Shippo's makes you sh*t'.

Of all the beers that were brewed in Notts, I really can't imagine that there was an enormous demand for Shipstones to be brought back.

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Can you remember those large bottles of Shippo's 'Nut Brown'?

Yep, my dad's favourite tipple and what I got weaned on, so to speak. On a Sunday dinnertime I was allowed a drop or two out of the big bottle, probably only be about seven or eight. I can still taste it now!

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Shippos mild on draught from the off sales at the Queens in Beeston. Lovely !!!!!!

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