Watneys Is Back 15:39 - Sep 2 with 3832 views | SaintNick | A much maligned beer brand with its Party 7 tin being very popular at house parties as well as Bradford V Saints in 1976 , it seems Watneys is back as a brand https://watneys-beer.com/ |  |
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Watneys Is Back on 16:07 - Sep 2 with 3790 views | PatfromPoole | House parties? All in a bubble, I trust... |  |
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Watneys Is Back on 16:19 - Sep 2 with 3775 views | DorsetIan | Is Red Barrel making a come back too? |  |
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Watneys Is Back on 16:37 - Sep 2 with 3749 views | SalisburySaint | Hope not it was rubbish beer |  | |  |
Watneys Is Back on 17:44 - Sep 2 with 3688 views | Chesham_Saint | The word 'tin' for a Party 7 can doesn't do it justice. I remember one poor Forest fan being seriously laid about with one under the by pass at Wembley Central before the 1979 final. It was all a bit 'wild west' on the approach to the ground, so much so that my skate mate (who'd somehow blagged a ticket for the game) promptly bought a Saints scarf to wear as he felt safer... |  |
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Watneys Is Back on 21:03 - Sep 2 with 3542 views | Sadoldgit |
Watneys Is Back on 16:37 - Sep 2 by SalisburySaint | Hope not it was rubbish beer |
It was wasn’t it! Those were the days of light and bitter. Wouldn’t touch the stuff now! |  | |  |
Watneys Is Back on 21:06 - Sep 2 with 3538 views | grumpy | Did anyone ever open a party seven without it going everywhere? |  | |  |
Watneys Is Back on 21:20 - Sep 2 with 3518 views | ThermosNBlanket | Wasn’t there a party 4 too for us younger drinkers going to parties |  |
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Watneys Is Back on 21:39 - Sep 2 with 3497 views | SaintNick |
Watneys Is Back on 21:20 - Sep 2 by ThermosNBlanket | Wasn’t there a party 4 too for us younger drinkers going to parties |
Yep party 4 or party 7 you used to have to open them with a can opener |  |
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Watneys Is Back on 22:04 - Sep 2 with 3473 views | kingslandstand1 |
Watneys Is Back on 21:39 - Sep 2 by SaintNick | Yep party 4 or party 7 you used to have to open them with a can opener |
And then go home from the mate's party and throw up as a 15 year old |  | |  |
Watneys Is Back on 23:03 - Sep 2 with 3446 views | MytchettSaint | I’m very proud to have worked at the old Watneys brewery in mortlake until its closure a few years back. I wonder if they’ll bring stingo back as well? |  |
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Watneys Is Back on 06:45 - Sep 4 with 3213 views | inthebox |
Watneys Is Back on 21:39 - Sep 2 by SaintNick | Yep party 4 or party 7 you used to have to open them with a can opener |
You needed to make two holes to make it work. |  | |  |
Watneys Is Back on 06:51 - Sep 4 with 3211 views | kernow | Awful beer. CAMRA was formed in reaction to the rubbish the breweries were churning out. |  | |  |
Watneys Is Back on 08:24 - Sep 4 with 3178 views | RonManager | All I remember is it was a pint of Red Barrel and 10 Players no.6 on a Friday night when just paid and half a pint of Starlight and 10 no.10 by the following Thursday. |  |
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Watneys Is Back on 08:45 - Sep 4 with 3160 views | Sadoldgit | The standard joke many years ago was why was making love in a punt like drinking Watneys Red Barrel? Because it was the nearest thing to f*cking water. |  | |  |
Watneys Is Back on 08:56 - Sep 4 with 3153 views | RonManager | If you drank in the Willow in Winchester back in the 70s, you ordered a pint of 'Itchen' as the river ran beneath the pub. |  |
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Watneys Is Back on 09:11 - Sep 4 with 3133 views | RonManager |
Watneys Is Back on 06:51 - Sep 4 by kernow | Awful beer. CAMRA was formed in reaction to the rubbish the breweries were churning out. |
The first 'real ale' I remember in Winchester was Gale's HSB which was sold in the Theatre Bar on Jewry Street, circa 1976-7 ish. [Post edited 4 Sep 2020 9:14]
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Watneys Is Back on 09:37 - Sep 4 with 3108 views | SaintNick |
Watneys Is Back on 09:11 - Sep 4 by RonManager | The first 'real ale' I remember in Winchester was Gale's HSB which was sold in the Theatre Bar on Jewry Street, circa 1976-7 ish. [Post edited 4 Sep 2020 9:14]
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Never been a bitter drinker, although I do remember the odd pint of Starlight as an underage drinker back in 1977, but real ale never agreed with me |  |
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Watneys Is Back on 14:31 - Sep 4 with 3059 views | ericofarabia |
Watneys Is Back on 06:45 - Sep 4 by inthebox | You needed to make two holes to make it work. |
Yep, and you had to be pretty damn quick to get the 2nd hole made!! It seemed every party I went to where a Party 7 was involved in, nobody had a can opener, but bizarrely a hammer and screw driver/hole punch always seemed to be at hand. Once the top of the can was punctured, the contents would spurt out of the small hole like a geyser until the 2nd hole was made. Most kitchen ceilings in the 70's bore the tell tale splash of shame !! Probably a blessing as it was a truly naff pint. |  | |  |
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