tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post5271472139679782841..comments2024-03-28T06:20:10.699-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: A day in NottinghamRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-80864507015262615042014-09-01T11:53:14.735-07:002014-09-01T11:53:14.735-07:00Been away for a few weeks and am in the catching u...Been away for a few weeks and am in the catching up phase.Apologies for a late reply.<br />The last brewer at Shipstone's in Basford was Colin Brown who later set up the Belvoir Brewery in 1995.He brews Shipstone's Bitter for the current owner of the name (Richard Neale) and I am assured that it's as close as he can get to the pre 1979 Shippos.After the Greenall's takeover the hopping was reduced and he's put it back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-51285928802228450252014-08-20T14:53:00.973-07:002014-08-20T14:53:00.973-07:00No general but Ludd means the poor any good!No general but Ludd means the poor any good!Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-33477008795363882912014-08-20T02:16:05.723-07:002014-08-20T02:16:05.723-07:00There's an actual folk song about Nottingham b...There's an actual folk song about Nottingham beer. I can't remember the verses, though, and the chorus isn't very informative:<br /><br /><i>Nottingham ale, me boys, Nottingham ale<br />No liquor on earth is like Nottingham ale!</i><br /><br />Which could mean a number of things.<br /><br />There's also a song about Shippo's (halfway down <a href="http://www.dolphin-morris.co.uk/book/1972.html" rel="nofollow">this page</a>). Apparently the author (Lloyd Watkins) sang it at Ewan MacColl's Singer's Club, claiming to have brought in a song from his local tradition as per MacColl's requirements. (MacColl barred him.)<br /><br />As the song says, Shippo's was proverbial for being badly kept and giving the drinker a stomach ache or worse - I read a story (in the Nottingham CAMRA magazine, no less) of a local barman who was convinced he was developing a stomach ulcer, until a senior colleague advised him to stop pulling himself a half when punters offered him one and just take the money. Why Shippo's was <b>always</b> kept badly is another question.<br /><br />Was your neo-Shippo's OK? I've only drunk once in Nottingham in the last decade or so - it was Castle Rock bitter, it was going off and it gave me a stomach ache. Maybe they actually like it that way down there.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.com