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Old 05-06-2012, 07:00   #65
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Re: Smell memories

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Originally Posted by egg&chips View Post
Just found this and couldn't help but recall the appalling smell that hit you on brewing days as you got off the bus in Blackburn. It used to make me gip as a small boy (or as we used to say "coaten?")
It was horrible.

I used to smell it every day, getting the bus back from school.

It came from one of the breweries, Thwaites, or Whitbreads, and came from processing the stinking, wet hops.
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