Found a picture of the mural; [urlhttp://www.vads.ac.uk/x-large.php?uid=50019[/url
Think it was designed by Bill Tidy.

Does anyone remember the competition Vladivar ran where first prize was 2 nights in Varrington, second prize was 3 nights in Varrington!

Grunhalle was comfortably and easily the worst lager I have ever tasted. It was at one point all you could get as well, then along came Castlemaine XXXX and Labatts.

The girls i gather are round

oh hang on.... thats not right... but at the some time it is.... how confusing.

Ahhh Festival.....LOVELY STUFF, when all you seemed to get was bogstandard Greenall's Bitter.
I remember Greenall's Original, then Thomas Greenall's Original, but Festival (for a keg bitter) was ACE...really hit the spot

4X

Used to go to Golborne Parkside club house on a Wednesday night when they would empty the pumps and none of the old boys would touch it, 4 free pints

Can you still get a pint of Greenalls anywhere these days I know that it was being brewed in Burton but that was a few years ago.

I would hate to think how many pints of Greenalls bitter ive drank over the years.

Smile please, you’re in Greenall Whitley land

i used to love the stronger one, can't remember what it was called now. must have had too many of them. the fleece & the church in lymm used to run out!

i have always thought we should use the greenall whitley song as a terrace chant....if nothing else, its original......

...thats it....greenalls original, thats what i used to drink!!!

Saw Melanie Sykes on Finchley Road on our way to Wembley 2009 - she got a fair bit of stick

Try "Postlethwaite" in the Rodney, they taste similar.

I remember the Vladivar ads - hence the name.

Orangiboom ads were best though - "it's a lager not a tune..."

I HAVE lol

What did the bloke in the advert get sent down for though? That's what I want to know.

If he did something 'honest' like a bank job, fair enough. If it's wounding with intent, or some sort of drugs crime I'm not sure Greenalls should have been glorifying him.

I WANT THE TRUTH

*tees up someone for obvious come back*

That Grunhalle DB Pils (in bottles) was drinkable tho, mark...and I hate PILS normally

Lots of crap lager you don't see anymore thankfully; Harp (stays sharp to the bottom of the glass), Tennents, Skol, Kestrel, Slalom (sponsored the reserves competition).

Before it became more available, lager was a ladies drink!

(Mind you some of the stuff now is just as bad, it is just served so chilled so you can't taste it).

Can you still get this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sus1ARrPGFs

Can you still get this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sus1ARrPGFs

Normal lager (Fosters, Carling, Carlsberg and the stuff you used to see - labatts, XXXX etc) is just chemically mass produced horse weewee with no taste at all(imo)

If and when I drink lager, it's Stella, Becks, Kronenberg, or any of the blonde beers..on the whole, not tampered with stuff.

Long live Guinness and guest ales...at least some taste

Stella and Kronenbourg (unless you buy the imported stuff) is the same as the rest, mass produced down in Slough. It just has better marketing.

The big change looking back was that most of the lager in the 80s and 90s was 3.2% volume and very weak, at least it is better now.

Mind you if you want proper beer, you can't get better than some of the ales produced by small local brewers. I love the bitters produced by Badger in the West Country. Fancy a pint right now.

i'd say kronenburg is a little bit better, i'd consider that a better version of stella, without the wifebeating tendancies, i had a massive thing for that a few years ago.

Stella on the other hand i can't touch, due to a being sick for 5 hours after drinking it for 9 hours incident. Every bit that came up tasted exactly the same and if i even smell it now it takes me back to that exact moment, i cna't eat southern fried chicken either for the exact same reason.

Lager of choice now, for away games mainly is Tuborg, its juuuuuust right.

Becks is the king of bottled lager.

its really not

Well apart from desperados.... its certainly better than tuborg

Your middle paragraph, Cat, rings a little true with me, allthough I never ended up staring down the big white telephone.
A large drinking sesh in Blackpool for 10 of us (started at midday, curtailed for an hour or two for food and a shower etc) got us to Yates' at about 1030 ish, when after virtually all day on Stella, we all went on a mad half hour dash on Yates' Aussie White......the smell of it now, 16 years on, makes me heave. HORRIBLE

I have to say I have a thing for chilled Desperados on a hot day. Beautiful.

Also Heineken, bought anywhere but in the UK, is as good a lager as you can get as well.

Amstel, served in the bar at the hotel malibu, perpignan in 2006, fooking fantastic stuff, 5 euros for less than a pint is not.

Everything tastes good when you are on holiday!