'NEBO 8 -Sat 6th May 2017 - St George Hotel, Durham Tees Valley Airport

[Jac Hawk]

Whitbreads were our brewery when my uncle had his pub back in the 1980s. I used to have a glass of Castle Eden with my breakfast

Was that instead of milk on your cornflakes Martin??

[Arkless Electronics]

i didn't realise, is the camerons brewery still next to the shopping centre? and i thought the Vaux brewery closed and the site was sold off years ago.

It's still The Lion Brewery and hasn't moved Vaux's actual brewing part was bought out by management when Vaux as a company finished... they no longer own pubs or anything like that but you still see loads with the Vaux symbol still on display.

[Macca]

Was that instead of milk on your cornflakes Martin??

It was a good job he gave the place up or I would probably have died.

[mik_rik]

The Vaux brewery site was demolished years ago and a big supermarket chain bought it and have left it an eyesore,speculating on it,s value and also denying it to any rivals.I always found Camerons was a lot better in H'pool ie it did not travel. In my neck of the woods it was p--- poor ,the joke being if you missed the next day at work you must have been drinking it.

[Arkless Electronics]

Maximus is a nice pint from the Maxim Brewery

[RichB]

i quite liked strongarm, can't understand what folks have against Cameron's, it's a pity the breweries in the NE have all but disappeared, Newcastle Brown's brewed in Tadcaster now, Vaux, Camerons and Castle Eden have all gone, the Castle Eden brewery is now a housing estate.

Maybe drinking in the old Riverside club and places like the Broken Doll in the town meant that a bottle of dump (Brown ale) was my tipple. Could never get away with any of that Cameron's stuff, or any of the Fed's various p##swater.

Had to knock it on the head though as whilst I've always been a mellow rather than an angry drunk, the Broon used to make me go a bit radge. The barmaids in the Telegraph, the Forth (where my Mrs used to work) and the Barley Mow all knew about this and would only let me have 2 bottles of dog in any one session. Funny stuff it was.

[Jac Hawk]

Speaking about Brown Ale, I was in a "British Pub" in Columbia North Carolina last year, they had Newcastle Brown Ale on tap, i had to educate the colonials and explained that Newcastle Brown Ale is a bottle only beer, it doesn't come in draught and what they were serving was in fact Newcastle Exhibition.

[petrat]

All this talk makes me wonder if the new venue would be up for getting a few guest ales in for the weekend? Anyone for the world's first combined Beer Festival / Hifi Show?
Maybe even provide some lovely local fare? Stotties, pease pudding, pan heggarty and singin' hinnies come to mind

[Marco]

Can you not dispose of them on the way, must be plenty desolate moors and forests enroute. Take a shovel etc.

Now there's an idea!

Just think of all the fuel I'd save on the return journey!

Marco.

[jollyfix]

Speaking about Brown Ale, I was in a "British Pub" in Columbia North Carolina last year, they had Newcastle Brown Ale on tap, i had to educate the colonials and explained that Newcastle Brown Ale is a bottle only beer, it doesn't come in draught and what they were serving was in fact Newcastle Exhibition.

I was very surprised the last time i was in the States. Newcastle brown was everywhere. Never saw it on tap, just bottles. Every gas station, little type shop, big shops, from middle of nowhere in a desert, to the city. That and Bass beer. Then again , i assumed it would be just crap larger everywhere, like 'Bud'. How wrong was i , Ale, very good Ale, stouts etc. So many micro brewers ,almost every bar had a few good ales, so many bottles of the stuff too.