Beer at Home means Davenports.

[Exit Stage Left]

A great ad from Christmas 1967. I like the shaking hand pouring the Sherry.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP1dC8c2cP4

[IanDG]

I can still sing the Davenports 'Beer at home means Davenports' advert song. It must have been on TV so much I got brainwashed.

[clarion]

My grandad used to have Davenports deliveries.

[Cudzoziemiec]

TV airtime must have been cheaper back then.

[Vince]

I also remember "Double Diamond works wonders" and "I'm only here for the Beer" was Watneys Red Barrel.
They maust have been prior to the watershed (if there had been one) because I would have been only about seven at the time.
I now understand that the marketing of both was better than the product

[IanDG]

There was also 'Whitbread bighead trophy bitter ther pint that thinks it's a quart' with a chesty barmaid and 'Tankard that makes you excel, after one you do anything well' - I think that had a guy called 'Stanley' in the adverts.

[RJ]

They still exist:
http://www.davenportsbeer.co.uk/

[CAMRAMan]

In a form like Ruddles, where only the recipe will be "original" and the actual brewing takes place elsewhere, I guess. Highgate Mild never used to be as weak as 3.4%, IIRC.

[IanDG]

In a form like Ruddles, where only the recipe will be "original" and the actual brewing takes place elsewhere, I guess. Highgate Mild never used to be as weak as 3.4%, IIRC.

This article suggests Highgate was 3.4%. Banks' Mild was 3.4% too.

[Psychler]

"Snowballs ..... it's a with it drink"

[tiermat]

In a form like Ruddles, where only the recipe will be "original" and the actual brewing takes place elsewhere,

If you read the History part of the website you will see they were taken over in 1986 (oh no, sorry, merged with ) by Greenall Whitley, the brewery was slowly mothballed then totally demolished in 1989.

[CAMRAMan]

In a form like Ruddles, where only the recipe will be "original" and the actual brewing takes place elsewhere, I guess. Highgate Mild never used to be as weak as 3.4%, IIRC.

This article suggests Highgate was 3.4%. Banks' Mild was 3.4% too.

I obviously didn't recall correctly! I was mixing it up with Highgate Old. That was a dark, meaty brew.