Boddingtons Draught Bitter (24 x 440ml Cans)

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Boddingtons has a distinctive straw-golden coloured body with a creamy white head, which is achieved by the addition of nitrogen. At the time, it was rare for a company to win the emotional argument for independence, and it was the first time a regional brewery had headed off an offer from a national company. General impression is that things were going well for them through the 70s (perhaps helped by some blandification?

Boddingtons cask ale production, which accounted for less than 10 per cent of output, was moved to Hydes Brewery in Moss Side. v=1669377411","options":["Size"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":32234591584569,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.Boddington’s Bitter was generally the first beer I sampled – and enjoyed enormously – on each visit, and I can remember the huge disappointment one year when it became clear from the first mouthful that the beer was different: much less bitter and really pretty unmemorable. Whitbread was motivated to plug a gap in its portfolio by owning a credible national cask ale brand. On 22 December 1940, the brewery water tanks were hit by bombs during the Manchester Blitz, and the brewery had to be closed down for several months, with production moved temporarily to the nearby Hydes Brewery. org/wiki/Ewart_Agnew_Boddington which quotes the Times of 11 November 1977 ("Boddingtons wants a penny on a pint as it strives to brew enough ale") "In 1977, Boddingtons increased its beer sales by 24%, despite national beer sales stagnating", Might be interesting for someone with access to newspaper archives to have a dig around some of the references in that article. Strangeways Brewery was founded in 1778 by two-grain merchants, Thomas Caister and Thomas Fry, [3] just north of what is now Manchester city centre.

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