Comments on: Freddie Trueman Yorkshire Ale from Copper Dragon

By: stuart

stuart — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:08:48 +0000

I live by and sometimes in The Marble and Ginger Marble is way too spicy and distinctive to be the Ian Ronald Bell MBE of beer. I was thinking more of something that pours really well, looks great but then goes flat after the first few sips and which you don’t order for a while until a few months later when your regular is off and you think “Hmm, maybe it was just a bad pint last time” and the whole thing starts again.

By: Monster Cable

Monster Cable — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:00:27 +0000

I never knew that Ian Bell had a mini-me – as seen in the ECB photo. That’s who must have said -

leave that one, Belly, it’s going to miss by mi….

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:14:53 +0000

Thanks, Ged. Real, genuine, sincere thanks. I had completely forgotten Indoor League. What a programme. True genius on the part of the programme makers. They must have thought -

Why do people (i.e. men) go to the pub?
To get away from their miserable existence at home, of course.
What if the wife has yelled at them so much that they’ve decided to stay in for the night, just to shut her up, stupid cow?
They’ll be forced to listen to her banging on and on about the kids being in hospital, or how her mother has died, or how the chip pan exploded last week and set fire to her legs.
What can we do to help these unfortunate men.
I know, let’s bring the pub into their living rooms.

The genius of it.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:17:54 +0000

A brewery in Manchester does a beer called ‘Ginger Marble’.

That is, basically, Ian Ronald Bell Pale Ale.

It’s… distinctive…

By: stuart

stuart — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:09:26 +0000

What would Ian Ronald Bell MBE Pale Ale be like?

By: stuart

stuart — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:07:01 +0000

What’s going off out there?

By: The Other Ed

The Other Ed — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:53:35 +0000

I hate to say it, but it looks to me like Dickie is sporting a bit of an Ian Bell there. His hair must be positively reeking with ‘product’.

cf. http://www.ecb.co.uk/photo-story.html?LphotoId=100323

By: Ged

Ged — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:36:11 +0000

My abiding memory of Fred (much much better than his dire TMS appearances) was Indoor League:

http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Indoor_League

I’ll see thee.

By: Narkins

Narkins — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:14:33 +0000

5 pints nowadays costs you a hefty sum

By: Bobby K

Bobby K — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:36:21 +0000

Old Dickie looks like he has had a few

I would hate to think what commemorative beers for some of our current crop would be