SLOPPS (BEER)

[emmy1978]

My mum ran pubs for M&B when i was little and then Bass later on as i think Bass bought M&B. Shame it went out of business. My fav pub is now being run by a Japanese firm. Not quite the same. Plus Bass invented the best till system ever.  ;D

[emmy1978]

[cornykev]

Thats where your boozy background comes from Emms.  :P ;D ;D ;D

[emmy1978]

Yep, sorry to say but i am a PUB KID!!  8)

[Melbourne12]

BM&B. Aar.  I used to go up the Cape sometimes.

[telboy]

Valmarg,
As an 'oldfart', I remember the Bass brewery well & enjoyed a visit many, many years ago when 'coopers' still carried out the trade!
Lived downwind from M&B brewery in my youth & have loved the product since(not M&B I add, winkle piss?)
The 'Cape' Melbourne - Aar -went up there a lot - was banned from the 'The Grove' for peeshooting in the '50's?

[valmarg]

telboy, one of my old nunkies (uncles) used to work in the cooperage at Bass.  When the old wooden barrels had come to the end of their useful lives, the slats used to be sawn up into approximately 6" lengths, and sold to the locals as 'nubbins', for firewood.  Hence the local expression 'nubbinhead', aka woodentop, aka thicko.

tel and melbourn, I believe the 'Cape' is no more.  Cape Hill Brewery was demolished some years ago.

All very sad!!

valmarg

[Melbourne12]

Another great Burton tradition was the "Burton Union System" which created the most delicious beer.  I think some Bass used to be made that way, but by the time I worked there, only White Shield was still made in the Unions.

I've just had a poke about on Google, and found that Marstons Pedigree is still made that way, and that White Shield has been relaunched, still made in Burton!  I must get hold of a few bottles, but I bet it doesn't have quite the same taste as the original.

I remember that it was also said that brewers tended to father daughters rather than sons, because of the amount of live yeast they consumed from tastings.  I think there might even be some scientific basis in this.  ;D