Won't be bothering with pubs from now on.
Discussion
KungFuPanda said:
rufusgti said:
gizlaroc said:
So you can go out, sit somewhere warm where someone is paying rates, rent, staff and having to buy the beer you are drinking and try and make enough to cover all that, socialise with friends from 7.30pm till 11pm and have 5 pints of beer and come home with change from £20 and you think that is expensive?
No wonder pubs are dying.
Absolutely! No wonder pubs are dying.
Nail on head.
Since I was 20 I've heard men of various ages comparing the price of a pint to what they can get in a supermarket. How abysmally socially backwards that argument is still absolutely baffles me.
How can you compare a good pub full of potentially interesting and jolly people, to sitting on your own in front of the telly drinking cheap beer. I'm just glad those people choose not to frequent the pubs I like to.
I run a bar in a big city centre and probably hear people moan about once a week and compare how cheap supermarket prices are. I reel off the list of other costs associated with buying a drink in a bar and by the time I've finished, I've bored them into submission.
thebraketester said:
If you like Guinness, next time you are near the lyceum walk back up Wellington Street and go to the Coach and Horses. Best in town.
I've never got this. Guinness seems to be the most location specific drink in creation. People say "Oh, you've never tried a Guinness 'til you have tried one in Dublin". Why? What happens to it in transit? Surely it is the same watery, tasteless and overhyped beer regardless of where it is served?
InductionRoar said:
I've never got this. Guinness seems to be the most location specific drink in creation. People say "Oh, you've never tried a Guinness 'til you have tried one in Dublin".
Why? What happens to it in transit? Surely it is the same watery, tasteless and overhyped beer regardless of where it is served?
What the hell do you drink if you think Guinness is 'watery and tasteless'. Of all the things you can criticise about Guinness, it's certainly not watery and tasteless.Why? What happens to it in transit? Surely it is the same watery, tasteless and overhyped beer regardless of where it is served?
Trabi601 said:
InductionRoar said:
I've never got this. Guinness seems to be the most location specific drink in creation. People say "Oh, you've never tried a Guinness 'til you have tried one in Dublin".
Why? What happens to it in transit? Surely it is the same watery, tasteless and overhyped beer regardless of where it is served?
What the hell do you drink if you think Guinness is 'watery and tasteless'. Of all the things you can criticise about Guinness, it's certainly not watery and tasteless.Why? What happens to it in transit? Surely it is the same watery, tasteless and overhyped beer regardless of where it is served?
InductionRoar said:
thebraketester said:
If you like Guinness, next time you are near the lyceum walk back up Wellington Street and go to the Coach and Horses. Best in town.
I've never got this. Guinness seems to be the most location specific drink in creation. People say "Oh, you've never tried a Guinness 'til you have tried one in Dublin". Why? What happens to it in transit? Surely it is the same watery, tasteless and overhyped beer regardless of where it is served?
Trabi601 said:
InductionRoar said:
I've never got this. Guinness seems to be the most location specific drink in creation. People say "Oh, you've never tried a Guinness 'til you have tried one in Dublin".
Why? What happens to it in transit? Surely it is the same watery, tasteless and overhyped beer regardless of where it is served?
What the hell do you drink if you think Guinness is 'watery and tasteless'. Of all the things you can criticise about Guinness, it's certainly not watery and tasteless.Why? What happens to it in transit? Surely it is the same watery, tasteless and overhyped beer regardless of where it is served?
SS2. said:
markcoznottz said:
There are problems with the quality of the beer in all Wetherspoons pubs though. Any seasoned drinker can usually tell, but it's so cheap that people go in.
Not my experience at all.We've been enjoying pre-match liveners at a Wetherspoons in town for the past 3 or 4 years. They normally have Doombar on tap and I've never had a bad pint (not once), nor one that tasted like it was even slightly on the turn. And we've got through a lot of beer in that time !
On the odd occasion they've run out of Doom, the alternative ales I've tried have been equally well kept.
£2.45 versus more than double that for exactly the same pint just 100 yards down the road ? No brainer.
Extremely good value in Wetherspoons.
I've had a few loopy juices made by monks in France, very nice they are too. That particular one, no. I'm not sure at what point a beer becomes a barley wine but I'm of the opinion that when it gets to the same ABV as a southern French red you've left the world of beer behind.
I do like "3 Monts" beer which is from near Dunkerque somewhere. It comes in at 8.5% ABV and doesn't taste like syrup, as many very strong beers do. It slips down very well, the main hazard being that halfway down the bottle you may slip down too.
I do like "3 Monts" beer which is from near Dunkerque somewhere. It comes in at 8.5% ABV and doesn't taste like syrup, as many very strong beers do. It slips down very well, the main hazard being that halfway down the bottle you may slip down too.
battered said:
I've had a few loopy juices made by monks in France, very nice they are too. That particular one, no. I'm not sure at what point a beer becomes a barley wine but I'm of the opinion that when it gets to the same ABV as a southern French red you've left the world of beer behind.
I do like "3 Monts" beer which is from near Dunkerque somewhere. It comes in at 8.5% ABV and doesn't taste like syrup, as many very strong beers do. It slips down very well, the main hazard being that halfway down the bottle you may slip down too.
Barley Wine is golden, that up there is a Stout.I do like "3 Monts" beer which is from near Dunkerque somewhere. It comes in at 8.5% ABV and doesn't taste like syrup, as many very strong beers do. It slips down very well, the main hazard being that halfway down the bottle you may slip down too.
For me at least, they all fall under the main heading of 'Beer'.
ks, it has fewer calories than lager if I remember.InductionRoar said:
Since you ask.
I like the look of that, is it possible to buy it in the UK, if so, where?I've recently discovered Dragon Stout from Jamaica in Tescos, that's 7.5% and very good.
I was wondering recently where I got my taste for dark strong beers from, then I remembered as a kid my parents always had a bottle of Mathers 'Black Beer' in the cupboard which I was allowed as it was mixed with 80% lemonade, sadly NLA due to Government rulings, read here: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/troub...
I don't know about Guinness being better near the factory, but Old Peculier is not great out of a bottle, much better from the tap, but even more so from the tap at their Brewery shop, so that's one that doesn't travel so well. It does have a short use by date though and is in wooden casks, unlike Guinness.
Evoluzione said:
I like the look of that, is it possible to buy it in the UK, if so, where?
I'm sure there are some bottle shops somewhere in the UK where you can buy it but I buy all my beer online these days.https://www.beergium.com/en/hoppin-frog-brewery/14...
This is the only place I am aware of that ships to the UK that still has any stock left.
thebraketester said:
If you like Guinness, next time you are near the lyceum walk back up Wellington Street and go to the Coach and Horses. Best in town.
There are loads of great pubs in central London, you've just got to know where they are.
We've probably stood next to each other quite a few times and not realised!There are loads of great pubs in central London, you've just got to know where they are.
You're not wrong. Lovely family that run it too. I used to go there quite regularly with the father-in-law when my wife's family visited us from Belfast.
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