1961 Doco/Add for Ind Coop breweries

[nosco]

Complete with creepy intro music, useless info and hard working chemists. Still intersting though. Not sure if its been posted before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq-wT-RRdgw

 

[nosco]

Im starting to think that Double Diamond and Skol were **** beers

 

[nosco]

If you havnt fallen asleep after watching that one you can watch another 60's docco

A much better docco.

 

[Bribie G]

That "Long Life" beer was weird stuff. Only available in cans, it was a bottom fermented ale if you can get your head around that. Tasted like a caramelly lager and was served cold (shocking for the era!).

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Good to see how it was done in bygone days, wouldn't be anywhere near half as many working in a brewery these days.

 

[Bribie G]

Yes, different world. In case you are wondering why they would have "petrol tankers" full of beer wandering around the countryside, a lot of beer in the 60s and 70s was served from Bright Tanks in the cellar and the truck would arrive, pop the hoses down the hatch and fill the tanks.
Tank beer was served via electric pump and only lightly carbed with a blanket of CO2. Also it was unpasteurised so was a half way house between real ale and pressurised keg beer. It made an excellent session beer - slam it down. The electric pumps on the bar were a thing of beauty, crafted from glass and brass or chrome with a piston that moved left and right (or up and down) so you could see your beer being served. They looked something like these new fonts that pubs can get, but electric.




Tanks are making a comeback in Europe to serve fresh lagers, also Carlton have / had it happening with Carlton Draught. If you want to get the idea, try a schooner of unpasteurised XXXX heavy off the wood in Brisbane, and a schooner of nuked pasteurised fizzy keg XXXX.

 

[nosco]

I was wondering about the tankers. Its what made me think they might be **** beers. According to Wikipedia Double Diamond is still made for kegs but rumour has it that some is still bottled especially for Prince Phillip.

 

[Bribie G]

As keg beers go it was a nutty somewhat sweet ale. I used to drink it at a couple of pubs in Newport, Monmouthshire that didn't have Brains beers.
Mate of mine when I lived at Old Bar came from Newport and I did him a batch, on tap, from Dave Line's Brewing Beers Like those you Buy.

It reduced the poor old bugger to tears, so Dave's recipe was pretty spot on :lol:

 

[Bribie G]

And now, on topic, the Home Brew connection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwd_l9b6mO8

 

[MartinOC]

from Dave Line's Brewing Beers Like those you Buy.

It reduced the poor old bugger to tears, so Dave's recipe was pretty spot on :lol:

Dave Line (RIP) created a great book that should not be discounted if you're wanting to create a lot of British stuff. I still can't get my head around the Adnams recipe (for obvious reasons), but great nonetheless.

 

[nosco]

So that would be this book?

 

[MartinOC]

This book would be a corker.

 

[Blind Dog]

Double diamond is still a beer brand in the U.K. although it's either a piss poor imitation of what it was, or my memory of surreptitious pints whilst still technically under the legal drinking age make it a better beer than it was. Maybe a mix of both.

Skol was ****.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

When I was in UK 2 years ago tried just about every beer going apart from the most popular, Bass, made a clone of it on Wednesday from BYO recipe, looking forward to trying it.

 

[MartinOC]

Double diamond is still a beer brand in the U.K. although it's either a piss poor imitation of what it was, or my memory of surreptitious pints whilst still technically under the legal drinking age make it a better beer than it was. Maybe a mix of both.

Skol was ****.

Double Diamond was always godawful & never, ever (according to the advert's) "worked wonders".

Skol was ****.

 

[Mardoo]

So that would be this book?

Looks like a cracking book, and at $11.60, how could it not join my collection. Now the waiting begins

 

[Jack of all biers]

Double diamond is still a beer brand in the U.K. although it's either a piss poor imitation of what it was, or my memory of surreptitious pints whilst still technically under the legal drinking age make it a better beer than it was. Maybe a mix of both.

Graham Wheeler wrote in his recipe for Double Diamond (CAMRA's Brew Classic European Beers at Home) ;

When told that Double Diamond was still popular abroad, I treated the statement with bemused disbelief, but then I was unaware that the export stuff was OG 1053. It's a bit different from the flavourless, gassy keggyflade of around OG 1036 that used to be marketed under the same brand name in Britain. I have been reliably informed by someone with a great many years more drinking experience than I have, that before the keg revolution Double Diamond available in Britain was a fairly strong drink of similar or even higher gravity, and that there were Single Diamond and Triple Diamond beers as well. Single, Double, and Triple were once used as notation for different strenght beers in Britain as they still are in some European countries. Triple Diamond is, apparently, still available in Italy.

This was written in 1995.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

This is the front of my log book, don't tell me the stickers are worth anything.

 

[Jack of all biers]

Yeah. They are at least worth taking a photo that is in focus

 

[Bribie G]

My Dad and I - when I lived at home for a year before heading down under in 78 - drank a few cases of "Single Diamond" that was on a great special at our local offie. Nothing spectacular but it got you hammered cheap.
Surprised to still find a pic on the Interwebbys.



OK so now we've got the Diamond covered. Now for the Skol...

They tried to introduce it in Holland when they took over Oranjeboom in the 1960s but nobody would buy it, not surprisingly. There's also an Aussie connection, they brewed a 4% XXXX under licence for several years but that failed as well.