We often spot our favourite Coronation Street characters stopping disconnected astatine the Rovers for a cheeky pint – but what are they truly drinking?
When a instrumentality wrote into the On The Sofa podcast with a akin question, Corrie fable Jack P Shepherd, who plays David Platt, was speedy to uncover each of the commercialized secrets.
‘The brew utilized to be, moving successful tv successful 2000s, shandy bass. For maine it was, oregon that Kaliber stuff,’ helium explained.
Co-star Ben Price, who plays Nick Tilsley, added: ‘In the archetypal iteration of Corrie successful the Rovers it was real. The taps successful the Rovers had existent beer.’
Jack went connected to explicate that present they usage alcohol-free brew successful the Rovers pumps, portion the bottles of brew are filled with water.
When it comes to wine, they explained that achromatic vino is really pome juice, portion they thin to usage blackcurrant for reddish wine.
‘I served a reddish vino today, and it was a non-alcoholic reddish wine,’ Ben recalled, having filmed scenes successful the bistro earlier successful the day.
Fans loved the penetration from the stars, with 1 saying the speech was ‘interesting’.
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‘That explains the magnitude of times radical bargain a portion successful the Rovers past permission it aft 1 sip,’ different joked.
‘They should wholly bring backmost Shandy Bass!’ A 3rd suggested.
Both Jack and Ben’s characters are presently progressive successful immoderate immense storylines successful the ITV soap.
David was precocious revealed to person stolen a immense sum of money from gangster Harvey Gaskell (Will Mellor), portion Nick is presently keeping his narration with Toyah Battersby (Georgia Taylor) nether wraps.
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