Latics Glory a premier ale with sup-porters!

Cheers . . . Latics fans celebrate after finding a winning ale

IF our boys in blue fail to secure promotion this season — fear not for there’s always a pint of Latics Glory beer to cry into.

The newly christened bitter will be sold at Boundary Park as well as pubs across the borough and 10p from every pint will go to the club’s community fund for youth development.

Glossop-based brewery Howard Town was chosen by the club to produce a selection of bitters and a handful of lucky Latics fans were enlisted to choose the winner.

Competition was tough with testers selecting their favourite from Bleaklow, Longdendale Lights, Wren’s Nest and Dinting Arches. The clear winner was Wren’s Nest and the fans decided on Latics Glory as the official name.

Wren’s Nest is a hoppy, 4.2 per cent bitter which won Supreme Champion Ale at the Society of Independent Brewers Awards last year.

The brewery ran a similar scheme at Stockport County in aid of the club’s Ground For A Pound campaign to buy back its Edgeley Park stadium. Brewery owner Tony Hulme said: “The Oldham beer will be on a much larger scale than Stockport. We’ve already got about 10 pubs which are going to sell it and because of the sporting and youth connotations, the aim, in keeping with the campaign to drink responsibly, is that it will be a lower strength beer.”

Pubs already signed up to stock Latics Glory are the Weavers Answer, Milnrow Road, Shaw, the Ashton Arms, Clegg Street, Oldham; the Friendship Inn, Lees Road, Salem; the Bulls Head, King Street, Delph; the Britannia Inn, Ringwood Way, Chadderton; the King William IV, Chew Valley Road, Greenfield; the Navigation Inn, Wool Road, Dobcross; the Royal Oak, Broad Lane, Delph, and the Old Original, Thurston Clough Road, Scouthead.