After 1943, Watney's Mild doesn't really count as an intoxicating drink. At only around 2.5% ABV, you would have needed to be a very determined man to get even slightly pissed.
This is the start of Watney's keg romance. Notice what crap value Red Barrel was - weaker yet more 2d a pint more expensive than Special Bitter. No wonder they advertised it like crazy. Of course, in those days no-one knew how strong beers were. Apart from the breweries, but they were keeping it to themselves.
Nice to see the Watney's Party Four get a mention. No susrpise that the beer in it was piss weak.
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I not sure what Party Four was - was it one single four pint (@ 2 litre) can or four separate pint cans. I am thrown a bit by the description of "can" and "draught".
A Watney's Party Four was a big can with four pints of beer in it. I'm not sure why it's in amongst the draught beers. Maybe they thought it was like a small keg.
I can remember Party Fours and Party Sevens. Various breweries made them, but they were always total crap.
See, to me, that is the packaging of the future. Having brewed a bit over the last 20 years, it is the small back keggettes that I remember most fondly. Something about half a pin would be perfect. But without the crap beer inside.
I bought a nice Watney's brass hanging plate from a nice lady on ebay last week. It's currently on the wall in my office. How ironic of me.
Stonch, well at least it doesn't have any beer in it.
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