DaveN 1,118 Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 Article in today's Post http://www.nottinghampost.com/Beer/story-26459377-detail/story.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 Lets hope it's better than previously sold. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Annesley Red 80 Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 It was my favourite in Miners Welfares but it wasn't always good in town Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 Anythings better than shippo's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 The bitter was only drinkable when mixed half and half with their mild....... no matter how well it was kept. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 Shippos new brew is really quite delectable. I remember from the late 70s that it had a distinct lemony taste. I adored it. The new brew has much of the taste I recall. Of course, a bad pint of shippos was awful. For interest's sake, how much of Shippos of the late 1970s and early 80s would now be considered to be "real ale"? I cannot recall the taste of home ales, although I am certain I have drunk many pints of it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 Home Ales Mild was my preferred drink in the 70's. Couldn't imagine drinking it now! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 23, 2015 Report Share Posted May 23, 2015 I would love to get my hands on a Home Ales or Shipstones beer pump for my home brew. I have a hand pump but the glass electrics of Shippos and the plastic electric cubes of Home have more class. It pains me to think that so many hundreds of them were thrown away. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 Had a pint of Robin Hood pale ale yesterday in the Trip can't say it had any resemblance to Home Ales tasted more like the Blue Monkey brew BG Sips? They also had Shippo's Gold Star on the other bar. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 Compo If you find a home ales or especially a shippoes pump. Get two. I will buy one off you! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 I would love to get my hands on a Home Ales or Shipstones beer pump for my home brew. I have a hand pump but the glass electrics of Shippos and the plastic electric cubes of Home have more class. It pains me to think that so many hundreds of them were thrown away. Along with the beer, it was probably the best thing to do with them! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted July 14, 2015 Report Share Posted July 14, 2015 #1 same article in june edition of 'Bygones' with pictures,i noticed that it states 'Home ales pubs' throughout the county, and wondered do any of you know of them having pubs outside the county,..?.........i knew of one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave 48 847 Posted July 14, 2015 Report Share Posted July 14, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/entertainment/pubs/history_homebrewery.shtml Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 #1 same article in june edition of 'Bygones' with pictures,i noticed that it states 'Home ales pubs' throughout the county, and wondered do any of you know of them having pubs outside the county,..?.........i knew of one. Black horse, Hose Royal Leicesters, Leicester Stag and Pheasant, Loughborough Nautical William, Wigston Magna Turk's Head, Maltby-le-Marsh, Lincs. Lion Hotel, Sleaford Rhino, Chaddesden, Derby (originally an Offilers pub) Jessop Arms, Codnor Vulcan Arms, Derby Sir John Warren, Loscoe Eclipse, Loscoe Midland Hotel, North Wingfield Beehive, Ripley King William, Ripley Devonshire, Somercotes This is a non-exhaustive list from the Brewery History Society website and is only a list of those establishments which still retain traces of their origins like signs, so there would be many more; given the vast number of miners' welfares and working mens' clubs etc which also served Home Ales there were probably hundreds of outlets outside Nottinghamshire itself. I'm pretty sure there were Home Ales pubs in either Mablethorpe or Skeggy too. And of course there were a lot of off-licences too; remember that horrible "Luncheon ale" they used to sell in pint bottles? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Stag & Pheasant Loughborough had been closed a few years before I came to live here (1971) But there were the following Home Ales pubs in Loughborough Beacon Blacksmiths Three Crowns Barley Mow Black Bull I drank in The Beacon for a number of years & it is now Everards The Blacksmiths is still there but I don't know about the beer The Three Crowns is a "Free house" The Barley Mow is now shops The Black Bull a gym The Stag & Pheasant is a hair dressers + a shop with flats above Home at one time had over 400 pubs Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Home also had a pub in Northamptonshire I once had a book listing all Home Ales pubs I can't remember what happened to it though.;( Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Stag & Pheasant Loughborough had been closed a few years before I came to live here (1971) I had family in Loughborough (my grandmother on mum's side and also my aunt and uncle) and was a regular visitor to the town. Over the course of about 20 years on-and-off volunteering at GCR, I got to know many of the pubs quite well. Back in the late 1970's/early 80's Loughborough was a good town to drink in if you liked real ale, as I do; the GCR's Signal & Telegraph dept. was a notoriously hard-drinking crew, not something that happens these days in the preserved railway scene as, for good or ill, Elf and Safety regulations have pretty much killed the social side off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Loughborough is still OK for real ale my favourite pubs being Organ Grinder(Blue Monkey) Swan in the rushes (Castle Rock) Generous Briton (Free House) There is also The Moon & Bell(Wetherspoons) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted July 20, 2015 Report Share Posted July 20, 2015 Ref' my question then #12,there were very many outside the county,i could only recall one,and that was the Peter Pan' in Peterborough Cambs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Riddo 47 Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Spot on Radford Red #9. It's nothing like Home Bitter. More like another one of those over-hopped, light coloured impersonators of traditional English Bitter which is (should be) a copper/medium brown affair. The Post (and the new owners of the name Home Ales) made a big show of relaunching "Home Ales" but in the same article declared that they would not be using the old Home Ales recipes. So really they're depending on the old name to sell totally unconnected beers (stop laughing Scriv). Unlike the Shipstones relaunch, which IS based on the old recipe and brewed by a former Shippo's brewer, so must be something like the old stuff. And for the record, a pint of well-kept Home Bitter, drawn by hand pump from the cask in a cool cellar was a truly great pint. Kimberley (or H&H) Bitter was always too sweet for my liking and Mansfield often had a "buttery" taste/smell (especially in The Bell in town). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Location of Home Ales pubs here http://www.homeales.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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