You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Leo Burnett's Donald Gunn got so sick of the 'do award-winning ads shift product' debate that he decided to do some number crunching to settle the matter and nail the misconceptions once and for all". There are generally acknowledged to be three reasons why a pub is deleted from the GBG: when a tenant/manager changes; when a pub closes; and when the beer quality is perceived to have fallen. Apparently though, there are a few other versions, now produced by AB InBev, including this draught bitter, a canned bitter with nitrogen widget trying to fabricate the creaminess of a true cask-conditioned bitter. v=1669377411","options":["Size"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":32234591584569,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.

To mark the occasion, a special Boddingtons 5% ABV Commonwealth Ale cask ale was produced for the North West of England, and subsequently launched nationwide. v=1700935404","width":800},{"alt":null,"id":36502318809401,"position":4,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0. Plus those that stuck with Whitbread-brewed Boddies would have suffered the effects of the massive expansion in production in the early 90s – but I suspect that’s secondary to changes in tie and changes in direction for individual pubs.Well known for its creamy head and smooth body, Boddingtons is a refreshing English golden bitter ale. Then there seems to be a period of inconsistency from an attenuation POV at least - 81%, 93%, 81%, 76% !

It's hard to say too much about the age of the hops as the harvest year was only occasionally recorded. Production was around 250,000 hectolitres (6,604,301 US Gallons) in 2012, with around 80 per cent of production destined for the UK market, and around 20 per cent destined for export markets such as Taiwan, Singapore and United Arab Emirates.Ray suggests he heard somewhere that they cleaned up the yeast at some point, which is plausible as a lot of breweries did that in the 1970s. In 1986, the company employed 280 people and operated 530 tied houses, and while Strangeways Brewery had a capacity of 500,000 barrels a year, it was operating at around 50 per cent capacity. Ends rather neutral and watery, with plaster-like effects overruling any malts and hops that went in here. To outsiders, Manchester is a very attractive place – known the world over for soccer, art, music and broadcasting.

It was initially only supplied to the free trade, particularly social clubs, and the Boddingtons tied estate continued to supply the cask conditioned product.

Are you sure that's the "regular" bitter and not something to do with their bicentenary celebrations that year? This number grew rapidly over the next three years to 79, the height of Boddington’s popularity, with 31 per cent of their tied house estate represented. In September 2004 the owners (now known as InBev) announced plans to close the Strangeways Brewery and move most production from Manchester to Magor in South Wales and Samlesbury, Lancashire, with the loss of 60 jobs.