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Thanks BN new one one me. I'll look it up when next in Blighty. Is it available in London?

Tube, a shandy is a shandy, many's the novice was blooded with a shandy. As for Guinness & black I know of only one person who drinks this and she rarely breaks out. The lager-top is/was a regular call from the regular lager drinker and was designed to take away the shapness of the lager. Castlemaine xxxx, now there's a drink. Fullers brought out a particularly nasty one about 20 years ago called K2, vile (showing my age)

"CDow":2n7c5fw5 wrote: Thanks BN new one one me. I'll look it up when next in Blighty. Is it available in London?[/quote:2n7c5fw5]I was drinking it in the Pembury Tavern in Hackney, so it seems to be.

Look out for Camden Town brewery and their USA Hells: it sounds lovely. People rave about Meantime Helles as well but it's never done it for me.

"Tube":1fuz98vo wrote:

"CDow":1fuz98vo wrote: Mind you any country that "invents" the lager-top gets what it deserves.[/quote:1fuz98vo]
We're not a million miles away with out beer shandies and Guinness-and-black.[/quote:1fuz98vo]
Shandy,now that brings me back,I once was a member of "an slua mhuiri",(Irish reserve navy)and went on camp to haulbowline in Cork,one night I drank more than a dozen pints of smithwicks shandy,(I know but I was young),found out later that smithwicks shandy is made using diced carrots.

"DEMPSEY":308oz75v wrote: found out later that smithwicks shandy is made using diced carrots.[/quote:308oz75v]
Really? I thought it was curry powder.

"TheBeerNut":2mvnuhoc wrote:

"CDow":2mvnuhoc wrote: Thanks BN new one one me. I'll look it up when next in Blighty. Is it available in London?[/quote:2mvnuhoc]I was drinking it in the Pembury Tavern in Hackney, so it seems to be.

Look out for Camden Town brewery and their USA Hells: it sounds lovely. People rave about Meantime Helles as well but it's never done it for me.[/quote:2mvnuhoc]

I read about Camden, how things change. I remember when Camden was still a largely Irish area. I used to pass the Southampton Arms regularly, it was just a non-descript local pub, not the beer mecca it seems to be now. I'm due a visit in May, might just get lost.