Readily Available English Bitter?

Thanks for bringing that up, it seems changes are afoot with that line. I never heard of the Glorious English, and after a bit of googling it looks like a relatively recent product. And also, their current website only lists an amber and a golden ale. So it's possible that the Glorious English was also recently discontinued, which is why the big discount. May as well get it while you can .

 

Well that my friend is great news. Time to grab somesome ales. Cheers.

 

I prefer Bitters that aren't called Irish Reds.

 

Actually in these parts the use of the word "Bitter" is becoming uncommon when naming beers. It was rarely used for bottled beer anyway as the brewers preferred to call it Pale Ale.

 

Yeah, definitely some corporate reorganizing going on there. Not even called Wells & Young's anymore, now it's just Charles Wells, and the only two beers are a dry-hopped lager and an IPA (triple-hopped!). Hopefully it doesn't mean they've dropped all the classics from their portfolio.

 

O'Hara's Irish Pale Ale strikes me more of a Bitter than any, most, Irish Red Ales I've had.

 

What's it called in the pub when you order one? When I was making a lot of business trips to Leicester in the 80's and 90's, the ordering commonly used was "bitter", "mild", "lager" or "cider" as far as I remember. Has that changed? (These were tied houses, AFAIK).

 

Commonly the beers have names such as Landlord or Wherry.Sometimes described as Pale Ales or just Ales.Bass of course was never labelled as anything else,the word Bitter in the past was restricted to draught Pale Ales.

 

Well, it has been marketed as I.P.A. in the past as well, but maybe not in the U.K?

Look closely below the Bass script.

 

Strangely enough, Bass never labelled the beer shipped to India as IPA.Just Bass Ale. But this was not unusual at the time.
Bass brewed a wide range of beers including, I believe, a Black Pale Ale, in the 1870s.
IPA was generally the weakest beer in a brewers range and this persists today with beers such as Green King IPA which is a whopping 3.6% ABV.

 

Probably not really strange, as you say, for the time. I'd imagine all the "fuss" about India Pale Ale was more at home than in the destination -- Drink our special ale for export!

Marketing never changes.

 

Yes, the beers had labels (what I frequently ordered as a "Bitter" was in fact Pedigree... it was a tied house, so there was no need to order by name), and it was a cask ale.

And, I was just doing what the locals did... ordering by generic name.

So, I was just wondering if people still did that, or has the decline of tied house pubs and the proliferation of brands changed things?

 

Greenman brewery ESB is good poured into a glass.

 

And it probably never will as long as people are selling things.

 

Come to Seattle and go to Machine House.