Tennent's Super
Tennent's Super (9% abv) is a tramp's favourite. It comes from Scotland, a country associated with alcoholism, shortbread and the export of homeless people to London. Super's younger brother, a more restrained yet still rancid lager, is the country's best selling beer.
When leaving the pub for my afternoon break, I spotted this magical scene in a nearby doorway. You couldn't make it up. Who actually wraps their booze in brown paper bags? I've seen jakeys strolling down Whitehall brazenly chugging Diamond White from 2 litre bottles, seemingly proud of themselves.
The chap who left this behind clearly understands the importance of discretion when drinking himself to a lonely death. I salute him.
Tennent's is brewed in the Wellpark Brewery in Glasgow. The brand is owned by InBev.
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Bill Drummond's book "45" has an excellent anecdote about a failed KLF stunt, where they planned to dish out a lorry-load of Tennent's Super to all the street drinkers and tramps on the South Bank (I hesitate to use the word "homeless", as it probably wouldn't be good to tar everyone with the same brush).
They tried to buy the stuff direct from the manufacturer, but were turned down. In a letter, they even stated that their primary market was "West Indians and street drinkers". In the end, I think they ended up spilling most of the cans all over the road when they had a mishap with the lorry.
God bless 9% Tramp juice.Whats the point of getting on an all stopping service, when the Gatwick express gets you there three times faster.
Bloodinurine has it spot on
I think you missed out Scotland's other major export. Those, our dear PM included, who are running the place from the North bank of the Thames!
Bet they don't drink Tennent's Super though which incidentally when it was launched was called Special Brew until another well known purveyor of loony juice to the disadvantaged, consulted m'learned friends. Not a lot of people know that!
What ever happened to the mesiah of tramp juice, Superbrew?. The brewers Stutzhauser Brauerei, Luisenthal fucked about with the orignal recipe and took the pedel off the gas taking it from its original 9.6% to 9%. Another short lived nitros packed nectar was force 10 coming in at, yes you guessed 10%. This was a little sweet for my cleff palet.I have recently discoverd Dogfish Head WorldWide stout from my local friendly Abu, Emett Arthererchip here in London at 18% that with the occasional depthcharge of Samichlaus, season permiting of course makes for an interesting stimulating afternoons conversation here on the common with the bench bunch.
I think the cans were put into the brown paper bags by the convenience store where they were sold -possibly wary of getting a bad name in the local area for encouraging street drinking.
I can't imagine the drinker made a particularly conscious decision to hide the cans.
Though thinking back with a little shame to my tennents days, the bag would come in handy to prevent the sticky crap getting over your hands.
You managed to turn an empty beer can in London into:
"Scotland, a country associated with alcoholism, shortbread and the export of homeless people to London."
A low class and embarising statement, Stonch. You are an ass.
Anonymous, if I've really offended you, I've probably done so several times already and will likely continue in that vein. You'd best stop reading. Unless of course you enjoy being outraged, in which case you probably read the Daily Mail.
The brown bag thing is because in some areas they have by-laws banning the consumption of alchool in the street. It's a legal loophole.
Doesn't have to be a brown bag. In E11 they're happy to swig trampagne from a can barely hidden in one of those ultra-thin plastic bags found only in 24-hour mini marts.
Stonch, I find your last comment amusingly ironic, given the fact that Daily Mail readers would no doubt lap up the casual racism (and disrespect for the homeless) that you displayed in your post.
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