Black &Tan

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claytonx

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Talking to my son in law the other day the converation got round to all the modern drinks available at pubs and night clubs,I mentioned drinking black and tans at the Derby in Accrington in the 1950s he asked what they were and I cannot remember were they Guiness & OBJ, or OBJ & Jubilee Stout, or something quite different.
 
claytonx said:
Talking to my son in law the other day the converation got round to all the modern drinks available at pubs and night clubs,I mentioned drinking black and tans at the Derby in Accrington in the 1950s he asked what they were and I cannot remember were they Guiness & OBJ, or OBJ & Jubilee Stout, or something quite different.
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Stout and bitter or pale ale, no particular brand as I remember. I had a boyfriend who used to drink it and I used to think it was terribly macho - not that we used such a word in those days!
 
Hell thats a drink i'd forgotten, think twas Guinness or OBJ. wi a pale ale? seems susies got a better memory n both of us clayton ex.
 
I quite like a pint of Golden ( bitter and lager mix) then of course there is Snakebite ( cider and lager ) .

I was also partial to a Thwaites Big Ben with a dark rum chaser..... ( you can only get Big Ben occasionally now when they do a special bottled run )
 
the derbys, now that place brings back memorys, i saw jasper carrott in the back room there, but for the life in me i cant remember the time, i think black and tan was stout and bitter but i drank brown split in those long gone days, and that was brown ale and bitter, first one was in the brown cow at ossy, i think?it was opposite side to the foxhill, just below the clinic, minds gone, but i,m sure some one will remember got done for drinking under age and that was a brown split, i think the fine was 10 bob,
 
cashman said:
Hell thats a drink i'd forgotten, think twas Guinness or OBJ. wi a pale ale? seems susies got a better memory n both of us clayton ex.
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Just thinking of the Derby was there any more Dutton pubs in Accy ?
(cummon Cashy get those brains going.
 
claytonx said:
Just thinking of the Derby was there any more Dutton pubs in Accy ?
(cummon Cashy get those brains going.
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Lots of them ... and in Clayton too ... I used to enjoy a pint in the Village Blacksmith on Bayley St.. Come to think of it, working at Dutton's was my first real summer job. We got a beer allowance in the morning and one in the afternoon ... health and safety :rofl38:... god knows how many of us had a glow on by 3:00 pm:alright:

Oh ... and I remember Black and Tan as half best bitter and half Guinness. What were the words in that song about Liverpool? Something like "there's lots of girls with peroxide curls; and the black and tan flows free.?" Anyone remember Black Velvet? Half Guiness and half cider?
 
It was one of my favourites - Guinness & Thwaites Bitter for me, but it was OK with Massey's & Lion - the Guinness used to cover up the taste of those.
 
claytonx said:
Just thinking of the Derby was there any more Dutton pubs in Accy ?
(cummon Cashy get those brains going.
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Yeh Kings Arms on Lee St pretty near, centre. Think the Arden on abbey st was also.? Think the long gone pub up corner of Stanley St n Washington st also duttons was it Stanley arms? must be more but at this point am off out.:)
 
guiness and bitter, the black and tan didnt only refer to the colour, it was also a referance to the british army in the early part of the century in Ireland!

Diesel = snake bite with blackcurrant
Blastaways = bottle of castaway and bottle of diamond white, tasted like lilt, but knocked you on your ar5e
 
churchfcrules said:
guiness and bitter, the black and tan didnt only refer to the colour, it was also a referance to the british army in the early part of the century in Ireland!

Diesel = snake bite with blackcurrant
Blastaways = bottle of castaway and bottle of diamond white, tasted like lilt, but knocked you on your ar5e
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Which century:confused:
 
ok the black and tans were "special constables" in the employ of the Royal Irish Constabulary.
that were recruited from british troops, they were still seen as an occupying "army" by the republicans, because they were British rather than Irish.

but they were not in the employ of the British Army.

point clarified, i hope

was still guiness n bitter lol
 
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