Wanted Inn
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As Mark says you remember a pint when it provides a fitting end to a defining experience.
An early or memorable trip capped off with the chance to re live it over a satisfying pint cannot be beaten - Butcombe, Robbies or a Landlord.
So bring on the day we can do a decent trip and go for a beer after - I am starting to believe I can almost taste it!!!
An early or memorable trip capped off with the chance to re live it over a satisfying pint cannot be beaten - Butcombe, Robbies or a Landlord.
So bring on the day we can do a decent trip and go for a beer after - I am starting to believe I can almost taste it!!!
Mansfield - In 1999 the company was taken over by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries, which quickly moved production to the Park Brewery in Wolverhampton.[5] This affected the distinct flavour of the Mansfield beers which was due to the using local hard water. With the instantly lost distinct flavour sales began to fall quickly.[citation needed] Brewing at Mansfield, which had been wound down after the takeover, resulted in the closure of the brewery in 2002.
Home ales & shipstones do still exist.
Home ales & shipstones do still exist.
Mark Wright
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LJR said:
At 50p a pint it was very different 40 years ago. A packet of fags to go with it was the same price.
Living in Sheffield I was brought up on Stones and Wards. The Stones brewery is now derelict and the Wards brewery is now an apartment block. Can?t say as I miss Stones but there were some excellent Wards pubs.
We now have some excellent local micro breweries.
The double Castleton crawl brings back memories, although I seem to remember it was Pitlamp and Caddis leading me astray.
Mark
Mrs Trellis
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Back to the Wanted - Soppy (Dave Allsop of the Eldon, DCRO & Allsop's Cave) used to frequent it most evenings iirc. The name "The Olive Tree" usually means someone with Greek Cypriot heritage is involved somewhere.
Back in the pre-car day when you were waiting for a bus from Sparrowpit and needed both drink and warmth the bugger was always shut.
Re beer - Robbie's pubs are usually awful. I'm old enough to remember Watney's Red Barrel - and the lines of the Monty Python Travel Agent's sketch which featured that brew frequently.
In Mendip we drank scrumpy (rough of course) and ate Mendip wall fish.
Back in the pre-car day when you were waiting for a bus from Sparrowpit and needed both drink and warmth the bugger was always shut.
Re beer - Robbie's pubs are usually awful. I'm old enough to remember Watney's Red Barrel - and the lines of the Monty Python Travel Agent's sketch which featured that brew frequently.
In Mendip we drank scrumpy (rough of course) and ate Mendip wall fish.
Mrs Trellis
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Was that in Aber?
Fatman
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I managed 8 pints (that's what I could remember) of Old Tom at the Leadmill in my student days. It was on the darker side of Robinsons beers and made caving the next day interesting. Like Mark I didn't care too much for Stones but Wards was ok and memories of the smell of malt drifting around Ecclesall Road; Wards tasted better than the smell...............I need a pub and soon. 
Chocolate fireguard
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It seems Wards Best Bitter is still brewed.
By Robinsons.
It's a keg beer. :doubt:
By Robinsons.
It's a keg beer. :doubt:
AR
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Fatman said:I managed 8 pints (that's what I could remember) of Old Tom at the Leadmill in my student days. It was on the darker side of Robinsons beers and made caving the next day interesting. Like Mark I didn't care too much for Stones but Wards was ok and memories of the smell of malt drifting around Ecclesall Road; Wards tasted better than the smell...............I need a pub and soon.
I'm surprised you could remember anything after that much Old Tom, I would have thought it'd be like the customer testimonial on the Viz spoof beer advert for Dr. O'Reilly's Blitzkrieg Messerschmidt 109 - "I don't know who I am or where I am. God help me, I think I'm dying. What a Beer! What a Beer!"
Says the man who used to drink pints of Old Peculier with mead chasers down the Fat Cat, then go on to Rebels and hit the Newkie Brown...
pwhole
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My mum used to drink Gold Label Barley Wine, made at the Whitbread Lady's Bridge brewery and sold in 1/3rd pint bottles - 11? proof. Evil stuff, but I used to love the smell rolling down the Wicker. The pub next door was the only one in Britain where they sold it on tap, piped straight through the wall (maximum two pints per person if I recall), but pubs on the Wicker were somewhat medieval, even in 1986, so we hardly ever went unless we actually wanted trouble from 70 year-old hags-with-fags. We accidentally discovered that if you got a pint of Wards, drank 1/3rd and then replaced it with a bottle of Barley Wine, you got far more pissed than two pints of Wards. That was about as complicated a maths problem as I could solve in that context. A few shrooms would steady the cue hand if a game of pool was happening. Even Rebels let us in too, and yes, bottles of Newcy Brown were de facto.
Luckily I stopped drinking many years ago, which is probably why I'm still here
Luckily I stopped drinking many years ago, which is probably why I'm still here
Groundhog
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Drinking with the DCC in Stockport in the 60's and 70's it was always Robbies. Nowadays I find it hard to swallow (!). I much prefer some of todays brews, Wainright, Holts Lowry, Taylors Landlord etc. I seem to have developed a taste for very pale, hoppy beers.
Back to the Wanted. I have many happy memories of post caving pints in there. I once arrived there on ski with Alan Gamble during a blizzard. The pub was shut, the front door was under a snow drift. But when the landlord spotted us through the window he invited us in round the back. We had a couple of pints by his fire.
I hope it remains open as a pub whatever its named.
Back to the Wanted. I have many happy memories of post caving pints in there. I once arrived there on ski with Alan Gamble during a blizzard. The pub was shut, the front door was under a snow drift. But when the landlord spotted us through the window he invited us in round the back. We had a couple of pints by his fire.
I hope it remains open as a pub whatever its named.
Graigwen
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pwhole said:My mum used to drink Gold Label Barley Wine, made at the Whitbread Lady's Bridge brewery and sold in 1/3rd pint bottles - 11? proof. Evil stuff, but I used to love the smell rolling down the Wicker. The pub next door was the only one in Britain where they sold it on tap, piped straight through the wall (maximum two pints per person if I recall), but pubs on the Wicker were somewhat medieval, even in 1986, so we hardly ever went unless we actually wanted trouble from 70 year-old hags-with-fags. We accidentally discovered that if you got a pint of Wards, drank 1/3rd and then replaced it with a bottle of Barley Wine, you got far more pissed than two pints of Wards. That was about as complicated a maths problem as I could solve in that context. A few shrooms would steady the cue hand if a game of pool was happening. Even Rebels let us in too, and yes, bottles of Newcy Brown were de facto.
Luckily I stopped drinking many years ago, which is probably why I'm still here
Mmm, Gold Label. That and Bass Number 1 Barley Wine were the first beers I drank, aged about 9, as my mum used them in Christmas Cake and Christmas Puds. I got the remains of the little bottles.
You are dead right about topping up pints with barley wine. Mixing different types of beer was an old English tradition. Greene King still sell bottled Strong Suffolk which is two beers mixed after brewing - a very strong barley wine called 5X (about 12%) and BPA which stands for Best Pale Ale but is more like a dark mild.
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A_Northerner
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As a brewer that used to supply quality local ale to the Wanted Inn, and will continue to supply bottles to it as "The Olive Tree", I'm sure you'll still be able to get something good to sup in there. Though they won't be open till late for Wednesday night diggers any more
I believe they'd been struggling for a while, and when Covid hit they took the opportunity to change tack and open as a farm shop, which proved to be incredibly popular. I believe (once Covid is over) you'll be able to sit in for a drink be it coffee, or beer, as well.
I believe they'd been struggling for a while, and when Covid hit they took the opportunity to change tack and open as a farm shop, which proved to be incredibly popular. I believe (once Covid is over) you'll be able to sit in for a drink be it coffee, or beer, as well.
