‘That was what kept you going. You had one first thing in the morning; one at lunchtime; one at five-o-clock, and one at about eight-o-clock at night. It depended what sort of mood the brewer was in. The brewer at the time hadn’t got much of a clue; if you had an argument with him, that was how he settled it. “You’ll be needing a dram” – and that was it, settled. Lots of the boys would start an argument just to settle it like that.’
