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Brew Wales (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Hall of Shame part 5 An occaisional series devoted to the worst in the world of brewing. Whitbread Traditional Draught Bitter Came across this advert from 1980 the other day. At the time Whitbread had just closed down the Ely and Rhymney Breweries and the keg only factory at Magor (sad to say it's the Editor's nearest beer factory) had opened. Something that got me thinking was the advert...
George Szirtes (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... I wrote a book of poems, or rather the title sequence of it, Bridge Passages (shortlisted for The Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1991) while I was there as well as translating Madách and Kosztolányi and writing two broadcasts for the BBC. The unspoken (or not much spoken) theme of the evening was 'Let's not be too gloomy', though, to tell the truth, considering the prospect of a...
Shut up about Barclay Perkins (Free subscription) | yesterday
... barrels. The Co2 is presuambly for serving them. AK. Found out something about that, too. That Whitbread briefly brewed one between the wars. Much, much, much, much more to follow. More details than anyone but a total obsessive like me could possibly want to know. The exact quantities of each different beer brewed by Whitbread 1900 to 1940. Details of every batch brewed by Barclay...
Shut up about Barclay Perkins (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... they dropped PA rather than Porter or Stout. Not that I imagine the Porter lasted much longer. Whitbread's last was brewed on the 9th September 1940. Pity two Milds disappeared. Such death notices are poignant. You can imagine the conversation at the bar. "Pint of Best please, Dave" "Sorry, Chas. We won't be having Best Bitter any more." "Bloody Hitler." The...
Nouse.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Fellow at Wadham College, a senior member of Oxford University Poetry Society and winner of the Whitbread prize in 1995 for his seminal work “Gunpowder”. Ashley has been published in ASH – the Oxford Poetry Society Magazine, but by her own admission, “I’ve been much too windy in the past about sending work out, but that is changing.” We both light a cigarette, and I ask her how she started...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Premier Inn, the budget hotel chain owned by Whitbread, has fired off a series of legal warnings to Travelodge after its rival lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over a £29-a-room promotional campaign fronted by Lenny Henry, the actor.
The Flip Side of Not Much (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Nice this about the company I bought this (plus bits) from is that they called me back. I always appreciate that. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
'How do I relax? Running. Sex. (But I hate sex on the run)' Jeanette Winterson , 50, was brought up by adoptive parents in Accrington. At 23, she wrote Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit , which won a Whitbread award , and later adapted it for a BBC series that won three Baftas . In 2006, she was given an OBE for services to literature. Her latest book is a children's story, The Lion, The Unicorn...
