Boddingtons Draught Bitter (24 x 440ml Cans)

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Boddingtons Draught Bitter (24 x 440ml Cans)

Boddingtons Draught Bitter (24 x 440ml Cans)

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One of the distinguishing features of the classic Boddies was that it was very fully fermented out, so from an original gravity of around 1035 it achieved a % ABV of 3. Brewed at the famous Strangeways Brewery in Manchester, Boddingtons was first exported in 1994 and is now enjoyed in English style pubs and bars in more than 30 countries around the world.

I must have had it a few times – I remember a class-conscious friend taking me to the Old Garratt circa 1985 ( this is a proper working-men’s pub! So the assumption must be that the "London" in 1318 is Whitbread and it comes from a "Whitbread" brewery that was brewing Boddies at some point.Well known for its creamy head and smooth body, Boddingtons is a refreshing English golden bitter ale. By 1993 the cask version was outsold only by Tetley and John Smith's, and the majority of sales were outside of the North West. The hops used in Boddingtons provide a bitterness that balances the sweetness of the malt, while yeast ferments the sugars in the wort to produce alcohol. The canned variant was distributed nationwide from 1990 and was the highest-selling canned bitter in the UK from 1992 until 2000.

People always refer to the dryness and bitterness of this beer, but quite apart from the taste, what seemed remarkable about this beer and made it very different in my mind from others that I drank around the same time, was the attenuation. A period when the number of Boddingtons’ pubs in the GBG varied between 27 and 35 ending the period 2 higher than at the beginning. Recently, on social media, there has been nostalgic discussion about Boddington’s Bitter — how good it was, what colour it was, how bitter it was and crucially, when it started to decline in quality. ISTR you proudly mentioning Newark as the source of their malt, do you know what "classic malting varieties" they would have been malting in the 70s?Strangeways Brewery closed in 2004 and production of pasteurised (keg and can) Boddingtons was moved to Samlesbury in Lancashire.

This is at best cynical and at worst a slur on our great city, its heritage and the Strangeways workers. In spite of its reputation and it being owned by AB InBev, I will try to remain as unbiased as possible.I am pretty sure that that was in 1982 (probably the summer), and on my previous visit Boddington’s had been its old self. Seems like they're doing better now from a commercial point of view but it's impossible to distinguish their beers from those of other breweries. Here in Amsterdam a well known brewery used to have a fantastic yeast strain that made their beers unique and in my opinion world class.



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