When they've not been taken over by AB Inbev.....And a myriad of micro breweries supplying decent ales.
I have to agree with you here Nobby My dad used to always drink it and i had a long spell drinking it too but haven’t had any for years - time for a trip down nostalgia way i thinkIn the red cans...
I know it's for Jocks but there is a reason it's so popular up there !
Caramel and malt flavours, very drinkable at 4.5% and very well priced. Should suit the Teesside palate. Better than most of these trendy craft ales. £3.99 for 4 cans at Aldi.
Give it a try beer lovers
Export IS 80 Shilling.
I worked for S&N in Scotland and NE in the early 80's.
The 80/70/60 shilling name is down to historical duty paid based on the strength of the beer.
McEwans Export is effectively just 80 Shilling Cask (Heavy) processed to within an inch of its life for keg and more so for cans.
It is a fact that Teesside palate favours a stronger beer than many other places in Britain and certainly versus the rest of the NE. One of the reasons Newcastle Brown Ale was so popular in pubs in bottles.
Teesside was a strange place in that it was one of the few places with such a diverse brewing choice.
Bass had Bass and (Sheffield's Stones), but were biggest through their estate and because Carling was their lager.
Courage had John Smiths.
Allied had Tetley Imperial
Whitbread had Trophy
Vaux had Samson
Camerons had Strongarm
Watney Mann
Now Heineken peddle s**t John Smiths, while great names like Tetley, Bass and McEwans have been all but lost as international brewers have hoovered everything up and spit it out.
Which is why we are so blessed to still have Black Sheep and Timothy Taylors up and running.
The British Legion in Woodbridge in Suffolk used to sell Export on tap, instantly went to the top of my list of ale houses. And I was told years ago that there was a pub in Endinburgh that sold nothing but Export and that all you had do do was tell the barman how many.
The pub in Edinburgh is The Diggers (Athletic Arms), they have a plaque on the wall telling the story, it was McEwans 80 shilling they were famous for. The story is if you asked for lager you were told to go to the pub down the road.
It is also the pub where the attempt to start a Scottish Boro Supporters Club didn’t really get going.
It is one of my go to pubs in Edinburgh.
It was the Middle House that came up with Standard - half Best Bitter, half OP.I remember when Theakstons had cult status. It was unusually strong for the time and there was only a handfull of pubs that sold it; all of them off the beaten track. The Middle House, Marske, being conveniently local.
In the red cans...
I know it's for Jocks but there is a reason it's so popular up there !
Caramel and malt flavours, very drinkable at 4.5% and very well priced. Should suit the Teesside palate. Better than most of these trendy craft ales. £3.99 for 4 cans at Aldi.
Give it a try beer lovers
Some of my favourite brews mentioned there. Tetleys when living Sheffield/Leeds in 90s, Export on the train home and then 80/-/Strongarm and Magnet back home. All difficult to find now in the world of craft beer, fancy continental lager and 'real' ale!Export IS 80 Shilling.
I worked for S&N in Scotland and NE in the early 80's.
The 80/70/60 shilling name is down to historical duty paid based on the strength of the beer.
McEwans Export is effectively just 80 Shilling Cask (Heavy) processed to within an inch of its life for keg and more so for cans.
It is a fact that Teesside palate favours a stronger beer than many other places in Britain and certainly versus the rest of the NE. One of the reasons Newcastle Brown Ale was so popular in pubs in bottles.
Teesside was a strange place in that it was one of the few places with such a diverse brewing choice.
Bass had Bass and (Sheffield's Stones), but were biggest through their estate and because Carling was their lager.
Courage had John Smiths.
Allied had Tetley Imperial
Whitbread had Trophy
Vaux had Samson
Camerons had Strongarm
Watney Mann Truman the sixth national brewer at the time didn't feature up here.
The Masham breweries didn't really feature as they had no estate and were shut out, until S&N murdered Theakstons.
S&N had Newcastle Exhibition and Tartan, both simply useless for Teesside, so introduced 80 Shilling (80 Bob) in a "bright beer" format especially brewed for Teesside area. It went extremely well being much stronger than its S&N draught predecessors, roughly same in strength as Imperial.
S&N effectively sold 80 Bob in Teesside, Exhibition in County Durham and Best Scotch in Tyneside/Northumberland.
The 80 Bob Bright beer in Teesside was quite close to Export but not as gassy. It was different to a pint of Heavy in Scotland too albeit from the same stable.
Now Heineken peddle s**t John Smiths, while great names like Tetley, Bass and McEwans have been all but lost as international brewers have hoovered everything up and spit it out.
Which is why we are so blessed to still have Black Sheep and Timothy Taylors up and running.