I have thoroughly enjoyed Leeds Brewery products whenever i have tried them. In this neck of the woods we have excellent beers from Ilkley Brewery and the fantastic Wharfebank Brewery in Pool, who's head brewer is the retired head brewer from Tetleys.

Can't beat copper dragon





( Hope my boss doesn't read this)

Leeds Brewery is a cracking set up, the Leeds Pale is lovely, Rhinoms should be able to vouch for this the amount of the stuff he used to win in the days of touchline, good to see some local breweries seemingly doing well.

I'd be interested to know what percentage of my income i 'invested' in tetleys when i first started work, but the beginning of the end was when the sold out to the Carlsberg guys way back when.

Leeds has an image... or more accurately, a cultural void... to protect as a 24-hour Milan or Barcelona of the north with its pavement bars, cafes, posh shops and residential waterfront properties. There is no place for maintaining any local history or nostalgia, not that Leeds ever had much to begin with.

Spot On Flipper!!
Leeds pale is bang on and it always brings back happy memories of Touchline!

Yuppie flats and a working brewery was never going to be a good match, and when you add in Leeds Council's desire to change the city's image, then Carlsberg were laughing all the way to the developers bank.

A sad day for those of us who remember the horse drawn drays in the city centre, so, Leeds Pale it is then!

Sam Smiths still do weekly deliveries to Tadcaster pubs using Horse and Dray

Tad Rhino works (occasionally) for Sam Smiths and can vouch for this. He can be found on delivery days walking behind the dray with a shovel and a bag.

Has he been promoted ?

A good pint of Tetleys is as rare as rocking horse doo doo anyway. Plastic pubs don't want actual beer anyway, they just want something fizzy with 5% alcohol in it.

Things have never been the same since the "Tetley Bar" at Leeds Uni was re-branded the "Old Bar" and they covered all the seats in green velour.

There's heaps of ales around nowadays and Tetley's hasn't been any good for years. I used to like a decent pint of it but haven't had one since the early 90s. Shame as a good pint of Tetley's was pretty good and was a decent session ale.

Leeds Brewery has taken over as the best brewery in the city now.

Tetley's has always been overrated, and that's before Carlsberg took over. During the 70's and 80's there was only ever the obvious handful of pubs where you would be served a decent pint of the stuff... at the rest it generally tasted absolutely disgusting, and there was never any other beer that was quite as disgusting as a bad pint of Tetley's.

Like Bullseye, I quit drinking Tetley's a long time ago.

My wife used to run Tetleys pubs,its how we met (her on one side of the bar and me on the other) and she kept an outstanding pint, she was taught properly by John Armitage the landlord of The Plummet Line in Halifax during the 1980's. All this reminiscing about Tetleys had us talking, and i think it is the 1980's when i last had a truly decent pint of Tetleys. After the closure, I wont ever touch the stuff again.

Norman the Landlord in The Fox at Horsforth always kept a good pint of Tetley's as did Graham Eccles when he took over the place.

Its still a good few years since Graham Eccles left Horsforth.

I thought that the Adelphi supplied an excellent pint of Tetley's Real Ale.
It must be 20 years since I last had a pint there so that will have been my last pint of Tetley's.
I'm a wee bit sad to see it go since it was the first bitter I ever drank in the Mucky Duck in Frizinghall.
However, I've since discovered infinitely superior pints so my sadness is very temporary & I'm not in the least sorry to see the brewery go.
The current site is no longer suitable, pull it down & redevelop the whole area including the ex chemical factory.
What a planning & development opportunity.
Any new brewery should be sited in the Aire Valley enterprise zone.