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I used to work there and the manager admitted it was watered - he used to say you could drink 10 pints and still be sober

We were always well oiled before we got there. Only time I used to feel rough in a morning, feeling dried out, was drinking keg beers like Tartan. Never had hangovers with bitters or lager.
 
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We were always well oiled before we got there. Only time I used to feel rough in a morning, feeling dried out, was drinking keg beers like Tartan. Never had hangovers with bitters or lager.

A ****ty pint of Tartan in a ****ty plastic glass, what's not to like at the end of the day - the only place you could go 'minesweeping' and couldn't tell whether you'd nicked a pint of beer or a pint of piss
 
My Great Nana used to have a bottle of Mackesons every day of her life (well presumably not her very early life, but I didn’t know her then)
She lived to 97. <cheers>

First time I went in a pub to order a beer when I was 15 the thing that bothered me most was being asked my age so I was just staring straight ahead. The thing I saw was Mackeson so when the landlord asked me wanted I asked for one of them. Never took to it. My cousin used to drink virtually nothing else. When his wife sadly died too young he in time met an American lass and moved to New York. How some Americans treat drinking was shown by the reaction one night when he came across a bar with Mackeson, The lass is extremely well off and moves in exalted circles. He was helpless when she told him one had said to her that gee these English fellas sure know how to drink. He had 3 Mackesons.<laugh>
 
Ashamed to say I drank it when under 18 along with abominations like Tartan. My dad never minded me drinking but always said don’t go in pubs he was in as he had a bakery and supplied some of those he went in and it wouldn’t have looked good if police came in and I got pulled up and he was there as well.
When I reached18 he took me in our local and instead of waiting to be asked what I wanted I said I’ll have aDouble Diamond. He informed me I was having a Tetley’s as he wasn’t asking for one of those. Liked it and got Tetley’s when it was my round. Though to be fair to my dad he rarely took a drink off me and insisted on paying for us both even when I was far older.

Can’t see them serving it in those lethal weapon type heavy glasses with a handle like they often used to.
Dodged serious injury one night in Wine Lodge when one of those nobbly pint pots flew across the bar. My mate shouted me and I turned around just in time to see it coming and ducked.