tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post5043706610489238158..comments2024-03-29T07:17:26.082+00:00Comments on Tandleman's Beer Blog: Good or Shite?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-60402402695549315242021-11-27T01:55:47.427+00:002021-11-27T01:55:47.427+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.CELPIP EXAM BOOKINGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17916819165394397744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-18115850830410604482019-08-23T11:07:59.466+01:002019-08-23T11:07:59.466+01:00One of my locals when I was in London was the Pros...One of my locals when I was in London was the Prospect of Whitby, Wapping by the river. It always had a decent cask selection and kept it well, but got acquired by GK when they snapped up Taylor Walker.<br /><br />There wasn't too many changes - London Pride got kicked out, as did Taylor Walkers 1790 ale (obviously, but it was made my westerham and I thought it was quite good). GK IPA became the fixed ale. A lot more of the 'guest beers' were taken up by one offs form Bury St Edmunds. But on the whole Cellarmanship stayed at the same level, and turnover was high.<br /><br />So I had a pint there, and it was meh. Drinkable, bland, but with an unlikeable hop character. I was also informed by herself, that there would be no snogs forthcoming until I had purged my breath of it.<br /><br />Bottom line its a cheaply made and cheaply sold ale, I would rank it lower than Doom bar, but not a toxic waste of bar space like the twitter verse proclaims.<br /><br />However GK IPA is a bit of a talisman - if you have to make a snap judgement on a pub and see it on the bar, its a good sign to keep walking along.The Sum of All Beershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929061497075905611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-45512633069452657092019-08-19T19:55:28.361+01:002019-08-19T19:55:28.361+01:00A timely article given that Greene King looks set ...A timely article given that Greene King looks set to lose its independence to a Hong Kong property company. https://news.sky.com/story/greene-king-in-4-6bn-hong-kong-takeover-11789261<br />Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-52731241721907527372019-08-15T00:45:16.292+01:002019-08-15T00:45:16.292+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.sean schinderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02799185039219756849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-1332049762628064282019-08-05T23:56:53.873+01:002019-08-05T23:56:53.873+01:00no I dont think Greene King beers get a fair rep,I...no I dont think Greene King beers get a fair rep,IPA on form is a classic beer, St Edmunds shows golden beers dont have to be like fruit juice, Abbot Ale though we always think Abbot Reserve is more like what Abbot used to be is still a great strong bitter, and then theres 5X.<br /><br />but theres GK the brewer and theres GK the pubco. The pubco side pushes tenants hard to make profits, understandably, but some might say they push unsustainably hard which has a real impact on the quality of the beer sold in their pubs, we've all heard the stories Im sure about what landlords get put through, some manage to make it work, others dont and the beer is usually the first thing to suffer, then its the food, then its the state of the pub.<br /><br />the problem is if the beer GK brew ends up mostly only sold in GK pubco pubs,and a fair few of those are struggling to handle cask so the beer is never consistently at its best, to put it mildly,is it any wonder it gets a bad reputation.Stonohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02656315721111561414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-73552625341095564402019-08-04T18:08:26.703+01:002019-08-04T18:08:26.703+01:00It's the current IPAs that have hijacked the t...It's the current IPAs that have hijacked the term. GK were brewing IPA long before the Americans discovered the term. Carrington IPA was quite sweet, The recent Meantime IPA was closer to a beefed up GKIPA than the excessively graperuit flavoured beverages that are in favour today.Birkonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797631050700297107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-9097223618186114852019-08-04T17:47:57.459+01:002019-08-04T17:47:57.459+01:00I'm a GK hater, as a rule, though i will say t...I'm a GK hater, as a rule, though i will say that I did find some I liked in GK Central, Bury St Edmunds. My main problem with GK IPA is it isn't an IPA, at least in today's terms.stymasterhttp://www.piglet-net.net/pigblog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-36112998950811364232019-08-04T06:20:02.397+01:002019-08-04T06:20:02.397+01:00I'm not a Greene King fan, but some people mus...I'm not a Greene King fan, but some people must be, otherwise it wouldn't sell. There's a big difference between a beer not being to your taste, and it being badly kept. A well-kept pint of GK is, to me, okay - nothing more - but that's what they are going for: bland, middle-of-the-road beers that will have a broader appeal. <br /><br />I'm not being a beer snob; people who find a beer that's okay and stick to it are the people who keep pubs open. We beer butterflies that flit from one beer to another in the search for the perfect pint are not a brewery's ideal customers. A lot of people love GK IPA, Doom Bar, Deuchars, etc, and, as I said, they help keep pubs open.RedNevhttps://rednev-rearm.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-38805622798941703192019-08-03T21:52:02.176+01:002019-08-03T21:52:02.176+01:00I used to run a pub in Hackney late 1990's/ear...I used to run a pub in Hackney late 1990's/early 2000's and GKIPA was our our one cask, although we occasionally took the XX Mild too, we comfortably sold 240+ pints a week, it's fair to say that twenty years ago it didn't have the blanket coverage it has garnered since, looked after it's a perfectly acceptable session beer although it will never set the world alight.@WestBromELhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00796030437814514393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-62528740457721668152019-08-03T21:10:45.836+01:002019-08-03T21:10:45.836+01:00Usenet....now those were the days. I'd send e...Usenet....now those were the days. I'd send every idiot Tweeter or Facebook muppet to Usenet to learn netiquette if I could. But sadly I can't, because it no longer really exists. By god, if you ever put a foot wrong on a newsgroup, you were <i>slaughtered</i>...Lizard Seerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07497330695288945161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-87021699336250109732019-08-03T18:21:00.892+01:002019-08-03T18:21:00.892+01:00I had a lovely pint of Greene King IPA in Ely, wal...I had a lovely pint of Greene King IPA in Ely, walking up the hill from the station to the cathedral. I was the only customer in the pub. This would have been about 20 years ago. Later the same day I had a pint in a pub by the river and it was crap. Yet the pub was crowded.<br /><br />I wonder if people resent losing their local beers and GK coming in and taking over. If GK IPA was reliably good it might be less of a problem.<br /><br />I live in Australia now. On my last visit to the UK the first beer I had was GK IPA. And it was crap.Chris Pickleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15104643906449354083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-26111359287824073072019-08-03T12:31:48.069+01:002019-08-03T12:31:48.069+01:00I don't mind GK ales, but it does cheese me of...I don't mind GK ales, but it does cheese me off when they are in sometimes really poor condition in GK's own estate. I stayed in a GK hotel in Banbury IIRC, and their Abbot was basically off every night, but still being served. Mind you, that inspired me to walk around town a bit, resulting in finding a Hook Norton pub that had their fantastic mild on, so it was happy days in the end.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16004629156666937633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-578574266799311262019-08-03T10:50:20.212+01:002019-08-03T10:50:20.212+01:00No. I still have a bottle of the original.No. I still have a bottle of the original.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-59376881652374290262019-08-03T10:32:05.049+01:002019-08-03T10:32:05.049+01:00I am not sure that "Hen's Tooth" was...I am not sure that "Hen's Tooth" was brewed by Morland - is it not a GK invention ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-53989897325995538422019-08-03T09:10:53.541+01:002019-08-03T09:10:53.541+01:00I quite like GKIPA and don't care who knows it...I quite like GKIPA and don't care who knows it. They still brew a very good Mild which is to their credit. Here in Wirral, which is pretty crap for beer, most, if not all their pubs sell cask beer, usually in good condition. Of course, they don't appear in the GBG because that isn't allowed. In Newcastle recently I was very tempted to seek refuge in a Greene King pub from the endless variations on the American IPA theme, 'Juice Bombs' and 'Ice Cream' beers.Birkonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797631050700297107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-74808464495904034252019-08-03T09:08:57.958+01:002019-08-03T09:08:57.958+01:00I don't think Morland Original ever went away ...I don't think Morland Original ever went away in its traditional trading area. I had a very good pint of it in the Deansgate in Manchester city centre earlier this year.<br /><br />Good to see you return to blogging more frequently on general topics, btw :-)Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.com