'Tetley Bittermen' (and possibly ladies too) in Sheffield

[taxman 12]

Is Fagan's still the best (of a bad bunch obviously) in Sheff?

 

IMHO The Grapes always did the best pint of Tetleys. I recently had a handpulled pint in Southport and it really took me back to the early 90's. Rubbish beer, lack of choice and pisswater masquerading as beer.

 

Oh and 3.7%...so barely beer anyway.

[stpetre 12]

All good suggestions, haven't been in the 3 Tuns for a while as I often forget it's there due to it being down the hill a bit. Yes the Ranmoor had a creamy pint of Tetley's last time I went. DnP = fair.

 

Cremorne is usually fairly good, Red Deer hit and miss. Washington? Not great, think I usually have Moonshine in there. Porter Cottage - doesn't have Tets any more i don't think? Banner Cross must be a candidate. Walkley Cottage?

 

Head retention is the clincher though - do you get rings round the glass as you drink it? If not then it's not quite right.

 

With a proper Guinness, you get 'rings a round the glass as you drink it' and that's 'quite right'. However, you did say 'Tetley's."

 

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Ridiculous, scandalous. Much like Boddies closing down in Strangeways, or Stones/Wards here in Sheff.

 

I love all the new little breweries but the big city brweries were great too. I like how they dictated the signage and architecture of pubs, indeed the whole pub experience for a region. Monopolistic I suppose, but if they sold decent ale I didn't mind. The John Smith's estate though was stalinism, I've never forgiven them for all that awful keg stuff and can't really be doing with John Smith's cask because of that underlying hatred - even though it's not a bad pint I suppose.

 

Perhaps off the subject but people that endured the 'Stalin' regime might not have had 'Tetley's' but had some excellent alternative 'snifter's' to warm the cockles. I'm having two right now !

[whitelion 10]

Tetleys is one of the only 4 permanents out of 10 that we keep on. Whilst not my drink of choice, there's certainly still a demand for it when kept well.

[stpetre 12]

Ive never found a good pint of tetley bitter, but have had lovely pints of tetley dark mild

 

Depends on how old you are Nicesheff, but 15-30 years ago, to quote the Bible ; 'Seek, and ye shall find'.

 

---------- Post added 11-07-2016 at 21:31 ----------

 

How about Tetley's and go for the prestigious 'Best pint of Tetley's in Yorkshire' award?

 

Then I suppose 'South Yorkshire' wasn't involved !

 

---------- Post added 11-07-2016 at 21:33 ----------

 

In my days of following the Blades very often the highlight of the day when playing at home would be the Tetley's in The Cremorne before the match. It was wonderful.

 

The beer-clip with the same image and name is not dispensing the same drink these days.

 

Same applies to Stones (best pint The Castle at Bolsterstone) and Ward's (RIP - best pint probably The Hallamshire, Commonside).

 

There are some wonderful bitters produced by the micro-breweries but I'd sell my house for a pint of original Waaaaaarrrrdddss.

 

Can I rent part of your house after ?

 

---------- Post added 11-07-2016 at 21:38 ----------

 

In my days of following the Blades very often the highlight of the day when playing at home would be the Tetley's in The Cremorne before the match. It was wonderful.

 

The beer-clip with the same image and name is not dispensing the same drink these days.

 

Same applies to Stones (best pint The Castle at Bolsterstone) and Ward's (RIP - best pint probably The Hallamshire, Commonside).

 

There are some wonderful bitters produced by the micro-breweries but I'd sell my house for a pint of original Waaaaaarrrrdddss.

 

After 'following the Blades' I suppose that would be the 'highlight of the day'.

 

---------- Post added 11-07-2016 at 21:41 ----------

 

Nothing remotely in the same league. Nothing really resembling the same sport.

 

The sort of beer you could put away 8 pints in 2 and a half hours and have no idea that you'd done so, until abject failure to negotiate the steps on the way out alerted you. I've always been a steady half an hour a pint person, but this was a different ball-game altogether.

 

Sorry to hear the beer in Leeds has gone so far downhill, Leeds didn't have much else going for it apart from the football and that went much the same way.

 

Leeds had green buses !

 

---------- Post added 11-07-2016 at 21:48 ----------

 

I know what you are saying about the original Tetley bitter. The best pub I recall around these parts was the Angel at Spinkhill. Appreciate that isn't quite in Sheffield. Other than that I had it while in Leeds and it was also very good there in a number of different pubs.

 

You can't begin to compare what Tetley's was like then with the brew served under the same name now. The same goes for Stones. The original Stones bitter with its pale straw like colour and well-hopped creamy taste was exquisite. The best pint of Stones I ever had was at the Devonshire at Middle Handley. Pure nectar. (Back in the days of Tom Walker).

 

Again - that's a completely different proposition now.

 

Breweries closed down and bigger brewers took them over - changed the recipes and moved production. Shipstones was another one that used to be a bit of a rare delight in these parts. The British Oak at Mosborough kept a very good pint - but this brewery also went the same way.

 

Thank heavens that the real ale movement was started by CAMRA and the big brewers haven't completely had their way.

 

Having said that - they have been sneaky in introducing some mass produced real ales, like Pedigree, Landlord, Black Sheep, London Pride, Deuchars, Old Speckled Hen, Ruddles to their pubs to meet the real ale demand. These are some of your "mainstream" real ales - many of them are pale shadows of their former self - and you can do far better.

 

The small microbreweries are a breath of fresh air. So good in fact, that I doubt whether even the original Tetley and Stones's could compete with them.

 

With respect to the Derbyshire pubs, the best pint (or half) of Stones' were in the working class areas of Sheffield's east end, late 1940's to 1965 (when they 'altered' the recipe) -I became of drinking age in 1965- but I understand it wasn't called 'Jungle Juice' for nothing

 

---------- Post added 11-07-2016 at 21:51 ----------

 

I know what you are saying about the original Tetley bitter. The best pub I recall around these parts was the Angel at Spinkhill. Appreciate that isn't quite in Sheffield. Other than that I had it while in Leeds and it was also very good there in a number of different pubs.

 

You can't begin to compare what Tetley's was like then with the brew served under the same name now. The same goes for Stones. The original Stones bitter with its pale straw like colour and well-hopped creamy taste was exquisite. The best pint of Stones I ever had was at the Devonshire at Middle Handley. Pure nectar. (Back in the days of Tom Walker).

 

Again - that's a completely different proposition now.

 

Breweries closed down and bigger brewers took them over - changed the recipes and moved production. Shipstones was another one that used to be a bit of a rare delight in these parts. The British Oak at Mosborough kept a very good pint - but this brewery also went the same way.

 

Thank heavens that the real ale movement was started by CAMRA and the big brewers haven't completely had their way.

 

Having said that - they have been sneaky in introducing some mass produced real ales, like Pedigree, Landlord, Black Sheep, London Pride, Deuchars, Old Speckled Hen, Ruddles to their pubs to meet the real ale demand. These are some of your "mainstream" real ales - many of them are pale shadows of their former self - and you can do far better.

 

The small microbreweries are a breath of fresh air. So good in fact, that I doubt whether even the original Tetley and Stones's could compete with them.

William Stones' could compete with any of them !

 

---------- Post added 11-07-2016 at 21:55 ----------

 

I know what you are saying about the original Tetley bitter. The best pub I recall around these parts was the Angel at Spinkhill. Appreciate that isn't quite in Sheffield. Other than that I had it while in Leeds and it was also very good there in a number of different pubs.

 

You can't begin to compare what Tetley's was like then with the brew served under the same name now. The same goes for Stones. The original Stones bitter with its pale straw like colour and well-hopped creamy taste was exquisite. The best pint of Stones I ever had was at the Devonshire at Middle Handley. Pure nectar. (Back in the days of Tom Walker).

 

Again - that's a completely different proposition now.

 

Breweries closed down and bigger brewers took them over - changed the recipes and moved production. Shipstones was another one that used to be a bit of a rare delight in these parts. The British Oak at Mosborough kept a very good pint - but this brewery also went the same way.

 

Thank heavens that the real ale movement was started by CAMRA and the big brewers haven't completely had their way.

 

Having said that - they have been sneaky in introducing some mass produced real ales, like Pedigree, Landlord, Black Sheep, London Pride, Deuchars, Old Speckled Hen, Ruddles to their pubs to meet the real ale demand. These are some of your "mainstream" real ales - many of them are pale shadows of their former self - and you can do far better.

 

The small microbreweries are a breath of fresh air. So good in fact, that I doubt whether even the original Tetley and Stones's could compete with them.

 

'London Pride' is that an oxymoron when it comes the capital's beer brewing ?

 

---------- Post added 11-07-2016 at 22:01 ----------

 

Hmmm bring back wardss and shipstones!

 

'Shipstone's' were they from Nottingham ? I thought we were talking Yorkshire area brewers (sorry that has to include Sam Smith's) . They don't even have a decent football team in that Shire-well maybe Mansfield Town.

Edited July 11, 2016 by stpetre
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