tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post3144630817548203604..comments2024-03-29T03:17:49.172-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Mild dominates ManchesterRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-82618927261034121162017-07-06T00:45:05.929-07:002017-07-06T00:45:05.929-07:00I remember my Mum's cousin once telling me tha...I remember my Mum's cousin once telling me that the first time his father took him to a pub as a teenager, in Wigan in the mid-fifties, he and all his older male relatives drank pints of bitter and mild mixed. As well as there being more posh people drinking pale ale in London than in Lancashire, those kind of splits must have kept mild going a bit longer here than in the South. I remember them as a teenager in pubs in the late 80's, although by then it was bottled brown ale or stout that tended to be added to the draught bitter.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387170913578542671noreply@blogger.com