Yorkshire

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

It is used both ways in sunny Dewsbury by the sea though rarely in the positive. He can't thoil t'brass - tight as a ducks........

'nuff said!

[giner]

I only ever sampled Barnsley Bitter once and a fine pint it was.

Well. I never got my gums round a Barnsley Bitter, but as a young fella I well remember my wife's uncle, an ex-miner from Rotherham, handing me a pint of something one fine Sunday morning in Greasborough WMC. It had a head on it that was almost a third of the way down the glass. He was less than impressed by my comment that we'd send that back down sarf. When I want a pint, I want a pint. Not two thirds beer and one third bubbles.

[md644]

You can get "Barnsley Bitter", or a modern version thereof, not sure how it compares to the "proper" stuff but it's mighty fine.....

http://www.mybrewerytap.com/barnsley-bi ... 500ml.html

[Mickey]

I only ever sampled Barnsley Bitter once and a fine pint it was.

Well. I never got my gums round a Barnsley Bitter, but as a young fella I well remember my wife's uncle, an ex-miner from Rotherham, handing me a pint of something one fine Sunday morning in Greasborough WMC. It had a head on it that was almost a third of the way down the glass. He was less than impressed by my comment that we'd send that back down sarf. When I want a pint, I want a pint. Not two thirds beer and one third bubbles.

Thats the thing with northern bitter drinker's they like plenty of froth on the top of it

Now down south we just want 100% bitter and NO froth

[mr B]

wey now bonny lads , yer canay be wor bad rund ere' cos yer hal sellan up doown yer end an muvan op yer,

some days on Redcar High St you'd think you was down the smoke with all those southern accents

mr b

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

There I was last Summer, sat in the sunshine in Dudley Street.

The trees were in full leaf.

There was a chap torturing a French accordion (no other description!).

The buildings had that Continental air.

Oh, and one other thing that emphasised the Frenchness of the situation:

I couldn't understand a word anybody said!!!

It's a different world hereabouts.......

Mrs BB says she must take to Gornal - its a different language to Black Country there, so I'm told!

[CVR1865]

You can get "Barnsley Bitter", or a modern version thereof, not sure how it compares to the "proper" stuff but it's mighty fine.....

http://www.mybrewerytap.com/barnsley-bi ... 500ml.html

by eck lad I nearly got me-self lost in tha.

Great site on 'tinternet.
Simon Baldwin

[52D]

It was a firm in i think Ipswich that enabled Barnsley Bitter to be authentically recreated. The recipe was well known but the yeast culture had been lost. The firm found an empty old bottle of the famous bitter and managed to recreate the particular culture so they could have an authentic flavour.

[giner]

Ruddy 'ell! That's like recreating a dinosaur from DNA in old bones. Ain't science wonderful?

[Goathingham]

wey now bonny lads , yer canay be wor bad rund ere' cos yer hal sellan up doown yer end an muvan op yer,

some days on Redcar High St you'd think you was down the smoke with all those southern accents

mr b

We never had that problem when we took the train from Middlesbrough to Redcar in the mid-fifties!

I guess nostalgia isn't what it used to be........

[harvester]

I always thought there was several "banks" up and down the country were brewers stored samples of their yeast just in case the brewer source became infected.

[52D]

Quite possibile Harvester but this was a recreation of a non existant brand of beer so the particular culture may not have been stored.

[woberty]

Anyone else in " fine fettle". Seasons greetings everyone.

[strang steel]

Truth maybe stranger than fiction?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16373631

[giner]

Any suspicious wallets among that lot, I wonder?