I have some sad news to relate to you all, Grolsch will no longer be sold in the UK
 

That bastion of beers, the mainstay of RAFG is gone...… the news could drive a grown man to alcohol :sad::{:{:{

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/othe...cid=spartandhp

I'll definitely miss those old lever top bottles, but not the hangovers......

I think this is the UK brewed version, which I was led to believe was brewed to "British tastes". Not the same stuff as you can get in Holland. Don't think it will be missed.

l agree. Most ‘foreign’ beers that are brewed in the UK are usually a poorer version of the real deal.

In fact most mass produced beer and lager is not as good as the smaller batched, which is probably why craft beers are so successful (even though they can cost a great deal more).

Good old Grolsch. When the NAAFI started selling it in Gutersloh, we could buy a crate, drink the beer, then export the empties back to UK and make a profit by claiming the deposit. :E

Grolsch, the staple food when I was at Uni

Ah yes, recall filling the boot of the (tax free) car up with crates of this to give to folks back home as Xmas presents (wasn't easily available in UK then) and leave them to get the deposit back. As I recall they were 40p a bottle in the NAAFI and most off licences in the UK gave you 50p deposit for an empty! Mind you I do recall drinking with a Dutch guy once who said that Grolsch to them was "...the same as your Watney's Red Barrel", i.e. throwing beer!

never mind, there is always Wobbly Warsteiner ,,,,,,,,,,,,, I hope

And Bitburg ! both 1.49 pounds sterling NOT brewed in stoke on trent either...

Be aware......this alternative to, or in conjunction with Groslch at the time, depending entirely on your location and company that is.... now comes in....ready for this ?........an alcohol free version !......scandal ! sacrilege !. defamation !

When it was first sold, in the very early 1980s, it used to cost the equivalent of 17p a bottle. Then we got 30p back on an empty bottle in UK. It was better to drink the beer overseas because there was no customs restriction on how many crates of empty bottles you could import.

Wot he said! :yuk:

Maybe, but with Grolsch you could get your mates to drink the beer, get a proper beer* in return and still make a profit. Win, Win!

*But hopefully not "Wobbly" ...it earned the nickname for a reason!

Get a whole lot of crates in a Chinook.

Think some Basingstoke offies must have gone bankrupt.

GOOD! - It always gave me a headache!

I stick to Wobbly, Veltins and Erdinger...

Or Jever Pils, that used to turn your poo black..

Too much Keo beer - many times, physically ill? Too much Grolsch - thumping headache!

I was seriously pleased when the Wall came down, and those 4 a.m. phone calls finally stopped?!

Sainsbury's own brand Czech beer is actually brewed in Prague, whereas all the beers they sell with Czech sounding names are manufactured in the UK, choice of names for the processes is deliberate.

In fact it's not only beers. The British-produced versions of soft drinks (sorry, I'll wash my mouth out later...) like Coke and various other fizzies seem grossly over-gassy, so the overall taste is of the straight-up-your-nose CO2, rather than a more subtle tingle that mainland Europe seems to prefer and that doesn't mask most of the taste.

I used to work close to M4 J 11 Reading west right by the big brewery there. every day . Different day different tankers different beer-all made in the same place with same water and probably the same materials just with small variations but then I am not a fan of 'foreign lagers' that have brewed in UK in small letters on the label. For that reason and the fizziness I prefer some of the continental products especially Czech where my son lives who have an extrordinarily wide range of local beers alongside the well known names . Because its national obsession quality is always very good and highly competitive price wise , 6 x 500ml in supermarket being the best value as one brewery or another has special deals on and a six pack can be had for about 1 euro 50

Not mine, lived near the Jever brewery and walked through their yard many times.
Mind you at age 13 was not a heavy drinker.

Trouble with most of the big breweries is it's all about maximising profits - quantity over quality. Their brewers are little more than cooks working to a script. A relation of mine works for a successful microbrewery who make some of the most stunning craft beers I have ever tasted. They were interested in mass producing one of their popular beers, but without losing the quality which so often happens once you cross the line into mass production. They approached one of the big breweries about a potential partnership and went to have a look around. They realised that, although the big firm had the necessary kit many times over, they didn't actually have the skills to produce it. Nor were they prepared to expand their knowledge. Not prepared to sacrifice their good reputation, the microbrewery had to knock it on the head unfortunately.

Very rare that I drink a UK-produced lager these days, there's just no going back with the amazing variety of craft beers now available.