Remembering the Boddingtons Brewery

Hello to all members of the Beer community on the Hive blockchain!

This is my introductory post to this community.

And since this community is about beer, I would like to tell you a story about a brewery that no longer exists: the
Boddingtons Brewery.

Beer drinkers usually talk about how a beer tastes or how well it pairs with food.

What I can’t forget about this brewery even today, after more than thirty years have passed, is the unique smell of Boddingtons beer, while it was brewed at the company’s Strangeways brewing facility in Manchester.

Between ten and eleven in the morning on a weekday (I’m not sure about the weekends), I could smell this mild, and literally “intoxicating” scent from beer being brewed, filling the air.

I wish I could capture this scent in a bottle to have it handy today, and take a sniff of the past, whenever I wish to do so.

Another thing that I remember about this brewery is its iconic ads from the 90s.

I don’t think today’s ads can match the “spontaneity” that characterized those ads back then.

Boddingtons rightfully held the informal, and so popular, title: “The cream of Manchester”.

Did this have anything to do with milk or another type of cream, such as ice cream?

Of course, not.

It was an advertising trick, likening the beer head of Bonningtons with cream.