After some serious consideration on this subject I would like to put this forward for Suffolks New "motto" Suffolk, A county below Norfolk in every way! (and it's got a border with Essex innit)
I'm sure among us we have some connoisseurs in local ales and alcoholic beverages, having drunk from many a brew I would say that Wherry is not my tipple and that Adnams.. particularly 'Explorer' and 'Spindrift' both of which I have seen in the midlands and Yorkshire are both I would recommend to anyone who hasn't experienced the beautiful taste, arguably the reason I travel to Southwold to get pissed on in the howling wind simply to sit in a Southwold pub and drink a beautiful Southwold beer
well, king of portman rd, i think we can agree that both counties produce great ales, as i like adnams but would prefer broadside, the standard bitter and lighthouse to the ones you mention. also Ghost ship, which is new, is very good although suffolk has two major brewers in greene king and adnams, there are many small breweries in norfolk that produce good ale, which means it's not distributed nationally. Wolf springs to mind. also woodfordes. Both norfolk and suffolk ales are better than the ones round my way. My other point is not all of Greene King is Suffolk beer now, as they have bought up many smaller breweries in recent years. Moorlands of oxfordshire is a good example, so old speckled hen is brewed in Bury now. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just that the origins are not suffolk. Cheers everyone
Tolly Cobbold brewed decent beers in Ipswich for donkeys years I still say that Tolly 250 was the best bottled beer I have ever tasted.
They were bought out by Brent Walker in 1987, 4 years after John Cobbold died. The production was then all moved to Hartlepool and they went bust a few years later! A very sad end to 250 years of brewing in Ipswich. It seems that most things went very wrong when Mr John sadly passed away!
Stop, stop, you're filling me with nostalgia jwm! Cambridge in the 50s. Every ale was "real" in those days and the choice of great beers unbelievable, Tolly and Greene King among them. The take-over vultures were just beginning to appear but had made few "kills" among the local brewers at that time. How different the scene was just ten years later.
One of the best "Spit & Sawdust" pubs in Cambridge when I was growing up was called the "Man On The Moon". Live bands every Friday & Sunday night and they were a Tolly Cobbold pub. I got absolutely blasted on Tolly 250 and Bitter and all for under a tenner! Happy hic.. Days!
That's reminded me, when I first started drinking, my drink of choice was a "light and bitter!" What happened to that?
Spot on, great little boozer! I used to live in Warkworth Street so really handy for plenty of local back street pubs. There are 6 or 7 within a 3 or 4 minute walk... The Cricketers, The Elm Tree, Free Press, The Clarendon Arms, The Hopbine, Man on the Moon, The Falcon (now called something else), The Tram Depot... I never needed a car in those days... Cambridge is a brilliant place for a pub crawl with some great pubs with real character to them. The King Street run was a great night out as well.
