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My first proper drink. Remember taking a few cans to certain away games on the train back in the day. As I recall I didn't really like the taste, but it was cooler than a can of Coke...
Double Diamond!! on 12:53 - Jun 15 by Pinewoodblue
Not sure the advertising slogan would be acceptable these days.
Double Diamond the beer the men drink
Personally I lose a DD but that might also be considered inappropriate.
Double Diamond Works Wonders.
Not the best by some distance but choices were much more limited back then. Also Watneys Red Barrel, N--wich bitter, two other less than salubrious beers.
We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub.
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Double Diamond!! on 13:06 - Jun 15 with 2069 views
Not the best by some distance but choices were much more limited back then. Also Watneys Red Barrel, N--wich bitter, two other less than salubrious beers.
Was supposedly Prince Phil's favourite beer. It's fascinating how things that are clear brand leaders for generations can almost totally disappear, suspect it's down to change in ownership etc. Sounds like us doesn't it now I say that?
No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
Not the best by some distance but choices were much more limited back then. Also Watneys Red Barrel, N--wich bitter, two other less than salubrious beers.
For my sins I have lived , for a few years, in Norwich, always asked for a pint of Grotnies red barrel.
Advertising in the 60’s was so very different from now. Can remember a friend who ran an off licence getting a 45rpm record telling him that a Double Diamond tv advertising campaign was being launched before Christmas and to make sure he ordered enough DD to meet demand. It was based on the ditty a nice cup of tea.
Put together a dvd for wife’s 60 birthday bash, ten years ago, sixties songs interspersed with adverts. Was played on a loop in the bar. Remember using an advert for Butlins promoting the idea that you would have a gay time. Plus go to work in an egg etc.
Double Diamond!! on 13:56 - Jun 15 by Pinewoodblue
For my sins I have lived , for a few years, in Norwich, always asked for a pint of Grotnies red barrel.
Advertising in the 60’s was so very different from now. Can remember a friend who ran an off licence getting a 45rpm record telling him that a Double Diamond tv advertising campaign was being launched before Christmas and to make sure he ordered enough DD to meet demand. It was based on the ditty a nice cup of tea.
Put together a dvd for wife’s 60 birthday bash, ten years ago, sixties songs interspersed with adverts. Was played on a loop in the bar. Remember using an advert for Butlins promoting the idea that you would have a gay time. Plus go to work in an egg etc.
Not the best by some distance but choices were much more limited back then. Also Watneys Red Barrel, N--wich bitter, two other less than salubrious beers.
Watneys was the worst. Norwich bitter not the best. Ind Coop, Whitbread, Charles Wells, Worthington E, you name it. All pretty rubbish. Double Diamond? It was ok but I never bothered with it. I liked Truman’s.
Canned beer choice was McEwans, Tartan (liked that), Ruddles County, Tennants, Harp, Watneys party four that blew up however hard you tried to open it. Beer everywhere!
Bottled: Newcastle brown was the beer of choice.
Greene King Abbott was my favourite as a yoof, but basically I’d drink any of the above, depending on cost and availability!
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Double Diamond!! on 17:19 - Jun 15 with 1774 views
Watneys was the worst. Norwich bitter not the best. Ind Coop, Whitbread, Charles Wells, Worthington E, you name it. All pretty rubbish. Double Diamond? It was ok but I never bothered with it. I liked Truman’s.
Canned beer choice was McEwans, Tartan (liked that), Ruddles County, Tennants, Harp, Watneys party four that blew up however hard you tried to open it. Beer everywhere!
Bottled: Newcastle brown was the beer of choice.
Greene King Abbott was my favourite as a yoof, but basically I’d drink any of the above, depending on cost and availability!
Ben Truman in the General Gordon. I think Mannings did hand pulled Worthington E..I seem to remember favouring a light and E now and again.
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Double Diamond!! on 18:45 - Jun 15 with 1715 views
Ben Truman in the General Gordon. I think Mannings did hand pulled Worthington E..I seem to remember favouring a light and E now and again.
Aah, me and a mate still have light and bitter (courage best and a light ale) sometimes. The regular choice back in the day because you’d get more than a pint and it would rescue a poor pint.
The rotten s0ds put the light ale in first these days or know the measure. Grrr
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Double Diamond!! on 21:07 - Jun 15 with 1622 views
Aah, me and a mate still have light and bitter (courage best and a light ale) sometimes. The regular choice back in the day because you’d get more than a pint and it would rescue a poor pint.
The rotten s0ds put the light ale in first these days or know the measure. Grrr
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it all very well drinking these fancy cocktail but you couldn't beat the good old Tolly Old Ale
I have a question - what are the Cliff Quay beers like?
Aah, me and a mate still have light and bitter (courage best and a light ale) sometimes. The regular choice back in the day because you’d get more than a pint and it would rescue a poor pint.
The rotten s0ds put the light ale in first these days or know the measure. Grrr
[Post edited 16 Jun 2022 8:02]
Used to play snooker on a Sunday evening, back in the 80's and the drink of choice would be an Old Bob and bitter. Monday morning I could clear a room with the smell in seconds, and I wasn't the only one it affected like that.
No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
Used to play snooker on a Sunday evening, back in the 80's and the drink of choice would be an Old Bob and bitter. Monday morning I could clear a room with the smell in seconds, and I wasn't the only one it affected like that.
Tremendous! I don’t think I ever tried Old Bob. I bet the combo of Old Bob and bitter followed by a curry yielded spectacular results!
Back in the mists of time, a brummie friend of mine used to enjoy brown and mild. It didn’t do it for me. Not even sure you can get mild these days. Bit like Stout. My grandmother used to have a glass of that before going to bed.
I did go through a Guinness ‘phase’. I quite like it and I gather the real stuff in Ireland is a wonder to behold.
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Double Diamond!! on 08:41 - Jun 16 with 1382 views
Didn't mind it back in the day but looking back it was awful - ditto Arctic lite lager
Falcon used to do DD on draught.
I think that’s the point. Beers I didn’t mind back in the day, I expect I’d find awful now.
When I was 16/17 I went on a geography field trip with the school. We were staying in a YMCA in Norwich and of course being under age were subject to a curfew. Yeah, right, being an old ramshackle building we found our way out alright.
At the time, Norwich had a pub for every day of the year. The downside was that they only seemed to sell Norwich bitter, but on the upside it was the cheapest. This isn’t good, we thought. Later - this isn’t so bad. Later still - this is ok, end of the evening - look forward to this tomorrow!
I had a pint a few years later for old times sake I it tasted like it’d been strained through a tramps underpants. Goodness knows what it’d taste like now.
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Double Diamond!! on 10:53 - Jun 16 with 1298 views
Not the best by some distance but choices were much more limited back then. Also Watneys Red Barrel, N--wich bitter, two other less than salubrious beers.
What no Grotney's ? Used to buy Part 4's and Party 7's. Put one of those CO2 bombs on the can which was supposed to lengthen the time you had to drink it.
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Double Diamond!! on 10:37 - Jun 17 with 1208 views
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