WORKIE TICKET AND UNTAPPD MADNESS

January 2024. Hartlepool.

Quite a lot of short posts coming up. Clear your busy diaries.

A big Thursday night out in Stockton meant a slow start to Friday in Seaton Carew, after a typical budget hotel full English breakfast (inedible sausages) enlivened by the owner’s singing. He was sanguine when I admitted I’d broke the bed getting out for a wee in the night (diagram available for Patronised readers). “It happens all the time” he reassured us.

Incidentally, I just noticed with some surprise I had blogged about Seaton before, back in March 2016, when the beach looked like this;

Back then I’d made Mrs RM and two teenagers walk the two (2) miles along the coast to a Hartlepool Wetherspoons (since sold on). Amazing to think what you could inflict on your own children only 8 years ago that would be illegal now.

Incidentally, that 2016 post references drinking Workie Ticket, a once legendary Champion Beer of Britain that I haven’t seen in a pub since 2018, and that was in Medomsley, Consett, which is a different time zone.

Is it still brewed ?

Well, I just looked at Untappd. For all I know Mrs RM has been drinking it in the Kelham Island Tavern while I’ve been caring for my parents down in Waterbeach.

Ah, here’s some recent reviews;

Hang on, don’t those reviews reference beers bought in 2011, 2007 and 2008 ?

Is it still too late for me to check-in (I think that’s what it’s called) that pint of Greene King IPA I drank at the Free Press in 1989 ?

Make it make sense.

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    1. That may or may not be a shame. I wondered if another brewer had bought the rights to the name. One of the problems I noted in 2016 was that by then Wetherspoons (and other free houses) were more interested in selling one-off specials and seasonals than established beers like Workie and Radgie. Used to be ever present on the Fitzgerald estate too.

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    2. It closed some years ago after a second trip into administration. It still exists as a brand, but I’ve no idea who’s brewing the beers now as they were being brewed by Three Kings in North Shields but fell out over a large unpaid bill for the beer.

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  2. I’m glad retrospective checkins are a thing as I went for post-christmas-work-do drink in a new bar in that it wasn’t even on Untapod, so felt cheated that I couldn’t tell the world I had a half of Mike Rayer All Dayer (keg) and a reasonably priced can of Safe As Milk, a lovely stout. Until now that is.

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