tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post4163977625968143743..comments2024-03-28T13:20:29.156-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Drybrough’s beers in 1936Ron Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-32294935420351419352020-01-13T22:39:51.207-08:002020-01-13T22:39:51.207-08:00God I'm getting old. I naturally read those as...God I'm getting old. I naturally read those as fivepunce, sixpunce and sevenpunce. <br /><br />As opposed to 60 slash dash, 80 slash dash that apparently the young tykes call shilling variants nowadays. Bribie Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966634243772332088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-25958198816569578232020-01-13T03:27:43.226-08:002020-01-13T03:27:43.226-08:00Mike in NSW,
70/- seems to have been mostly a pos...Mike in NSW,<br /><br />70/- seems to have been mostly a post-WW II thing. But it varied from brewery to brewery. Usher, for example, brewed a PA, PA 60/-, PA 70/- and PA 80/- between the wars. While Maclay went for PA 5d, PA 6d and PA 7d.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-79672538397699935292020-01-12T12:39:20.198-08:002020-01-12T12:39:20.198-08:00Any thoughts on why no 70/- "heavy" or w...Any thoughts on why no 70/- "heavy" or was that a post War thing? I remember their Guard's Keg Heavy from the 1970s with a ridiculous font featuring a guard in uniform inside a sort of Carling Black Label giant resin cube. Mike in NSWnoreply@blogger.com