Tuesday 10 February 2009

Beer towel mystery

I’ve got a handful of beer towels in a box — some good breweries:Adnams, Woodforde’s, Morrells, even an ancient one from Everard’s. Looking at them tonight the question strikes me: is anyone still making them and using them? They used to be common currency at the bar and when I was a teenager I remember heavy metal fans who had beer towels sewn onto the baacks of their denim jackets, it seemed to go with thumbs hooked in belts when jigging to Status Quo. Quite an appalling sight really, on a par with the two bikers who on a damp autumn day in the late 1970s once wandered into the now demolished Ancient Druids in Cambridge’s old Kite area with dead sparrows attached to their shredded jeans. How we laughed (or didn’t).

4 comments:

  1. I use them at the Gunmakers. I've some from Timothy Taylor, Brakspear, Bateman's, Young's, Ringwood and (for use in the kitchen only) Guinness. They're still widely available.

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  2. Phew, I was beginning to get a bit concerned — might have a look at the old denim jacket again.

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  3. I use them them in my home bar and have an extensive collection on the walls around the bar.

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  4. Good for insulation I would have thought as well.

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