Isnt it a listed building or something? It has already been said - prime land - new yuppie flats - equals big profits for some property developer!!

The Adelphi's Tetley's isn't much to write home about any more. You'd be better off with a pint of Taylors.

I agree with you there,I think the demise of pubs came with the introduction of all day drinking.Going for a pint now on sundays lunch is depressing.

Yes it is,but is is a good session drink?I think its about 4.8%?bit too strong for most people who want more than just a couple

Years ago The Whip down in lower Briggate served a cracking pint.

They had the weirdest clientele of any pub I've ever been in though!

That was the last pub in Leeds where women were'nt allowed.In about 1969 when the law's came in a group of liberated ladies came in and they must have thought ugh they can keep it

.Yes it was a great pint of Tetley's construction worker's used get in a lot especially after their saturday morning shift

Problem with the Carlsberg boycott with us being rugby league fans is that Carlsberg/Tetley is the only beer served at grounds.

Wouldn't it be good if no-one bought any though, because lets be honest, its p1ss-poor.

And expensive.

and we would'nt any drunken incidents that are creeping into our game

My Grandad used to work there for over 20 years till retiring around 1987.He told me that it was the best place in Leeds to work for and they even told him after offering the job .."the only way you'll leave is if you sack yourself..keep your nose clean and you've got a job life.."
The stories that came out of that place were fantastic and when he retired they put on a weekly Friday afternoon session for all the old workers in the bar on site.Free beers for all!!! Regularly he came out after a skinful with his mate ran for the bus,sat down huffing and puffing, only to realise they'd got on the wrong one and ended up in east Leeds rather than Moortown!!
One great story is when a mate of his went for a job there, in the stables looking after the shire horses..Mild & Bitter
" Right you've got the job,starting time is 7.When you first get in sweep the yard and clean up..but make sure you do it quietly till 8"
Mate replied " Quietly?? why must i do that?"
"Because the horses dont get up till then"
You couldnt make it up

Ive heard story's like that too ,brilliant,and sad now

My friend who has taken forced retirement from Tetleys on Friday used to ride his bike to work most days as part of his job was tasting the beer, yes its true

you can take him into any Tetleys pub and he'd tell you when the beer was brewed.

They used to get a weekly allowance of cans and he'd save them up until he had a case of 24 then stick them in his backpack and ride his bike home.

Coming up to the traffic lights outside the Merrion Centre one evening with a back load of cans he stopped in front of the bus stops outside the College of Technology, forgot about the backpack, leaned back and toppled over backwards with the weight, he said he laid on the road like a tortoise unable to get up and not one person stood waiting for a bus helped him up, lots of them nearly wet themselves laughing though.

I always thought the Export was pretty good. The regular stuff is though.

That sums up my experience. It didn't travel well North of the river, most of the pubs serving a decent pint would also be places you'd get a kicking in (The Whip served good beer but also GBH on tap), etc...etc.... But a good pint was pretty good. At it's best it was as smooth as full fat milk from Jersey cows. The 80's and 90's were pretty dire for beer drinking as I remember. There were a lot of really crap lagers becoming popular (I don't need to list them, we can all name them if we try), and the proliferation of electric pumps and wine bar/wine lodges ruined the existing bitters.
I got a crate of Black Sheep Bitter for Fathers Day today, absolutely superb stuff.

Wonder if there'll be another 'Tetleys Pub Hunt' ?
They were fun....trying to do 20 pubs in a couple of days

Classic marketing back then.

You buy 20, you get 1 free

sam smiths is just the same now, pleasure to go to work. the retirements in the cellar bar is free ale. long days

Also did the Tetley Pub Enquiry

Don't forget about the T Shirt

That's just a vicious rumour, no truth in it at all.

& Sam Smith's Old Brewery bitter knocks spots off Tetley's.
I agree with all the plaudits foir Leeds Brewery's ales.
I also now have a soft spot for Adnam's ales.
On a point of information you can get Marston's pedigree on draught in the Long Room when the Cricket is on at Headingley & occasionally in the Rhinos' 2000 bar or whatever it's called these days.
Alternatively if you can't stomach the Carlsberg p*ss offerings on sale, try the Guiness, sadly only the extra cold is now on offer but infinitely preferable to the Danish rubbish on offer.

Sam Smith's nut brown ale is

I'm that bit older than some of you,but going back to the 60s around here there was Tetley's ,John Smith's ,Sam Smith's, Dutton's ,Ramsden's, Hammond's,Bentley's,Hemingway's,and of course there was Tetley's big rival which by the way I was too young to sup,but I know a lot of people younger than me say that I have heard say Melbourne bitter was much better than Tetley's.Tetley's took over Melbourne brewery circa 1960 and did away with the other famous Leeds brew "Melbourne bitter".As far as I'm concerned the only beer that came close to Tetley's in that era was "RAMSDEN'S" and I think Tetley's took over them too, and Ramsdens wonderful mild disappeared too.Times have changed and they will continue to change,and this changing era began with the the Thatcher govt making brewery's sell their pubs and the biggest change of all was all day drinking

I started drinking in pubs about 1996, and I've never had a decent pint of Tetleys. It seems like if you want to mourn something, mourn the demise of it as a decent beer 20 odd years ago.

I feel for lost jobs, but in a market place full of real ales which are increasingly available in pubs and bars again, I won't need to boycott Tetleys. I hadn't bought a pint of it in about a decade anyway.

I think until about 1994 you could still get a good pint of Tetley's in the Gaping Goose or the Miners in Garforth (might be a year out). And they were damn good pints at that time. Like the majority on here have said though, they were few and far between where you could get that, and since just nowhere.

I think at one point but I could be a couple of years out, the Gaping Goose was regarded as the best pint of Tetleys around that side of Leeds.