Re: No more toast?

On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 09:46:51 +0100, Kerr-Mudd, John <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 02:07:07 +0100
> [email protected] (Sn!pe) wrote:
>
>> [free.beer.tomorrow added]
>>
>> Citizen Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Sn!pe wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Citizen Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > [...]
>> > >
>> > > > > > And Tim Martin is a diamond geezer, innit.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Let's not rant about his Brexit magazine.
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Wot magazine? Oh yeah, I remember now.
>> > > > I don't go there to read, it ain't a library.
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > Wetherspoons killed all the best little pubs in our town by selling
>> > > short-dated, almost sour, beer on price alone.  They won't even  
>> allow
>> > > us punters to belly-up to the bar for a natter with the barmaid or  
>> the
>> > > fellow we're standing next to.  'Spoons watering holes are just  
>> that,
>> > > catering to the ten o'clock drinkers and their ilk; they're not real
>> > > pubs at all.  Pah, I discard them.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Blimey. I've not been anywhere where all the pubs have been bought up  
>> by
>> > Wetherspoons. That sucks. That said, most pubs nowadays all have clean
>> > carpets and mock wooden beams and belong to one chain or another who  
>> all
>> > charge an arm and a leg for a pint. Very few proper locals left. When  
>> I
>> > was still in London me and my mate had to walk a couple of miles  
>> before we
>> > got to a traditional local type pub with regulars. Where I am now  
>> there
>> > aren't any I know of. There's a wetherspoons in town with clean pipes  
>> and
>> > I've not had a sour pint yet. And it's cheap. But it ain't a local.
>> >
>>
>> Don't get me wrong, Wetherspoons don't buy up their competition,
>> they outdo them by IMO unfair price advantage.
>>
>> I have been told (by a bloke* down the pub) that Wetherspoons are so
>> big that they can buy up end of batch, short dated beer very cheaply,
>> just before it goes off, and shove it out the door as quick as they can.
>>
>
> I've not found this to be so. What they do do is hammer down the
> supply price, by buying in bulk from big boys and being hard on smaller
> ones who seem to think that a big (for them) supply deal (for a season
> anyhow) is worth it for the name exposure it gets them.
>
> Some beer does sometimes seem as if it has been at the central warehouse  
> a
> bit long, IME.
>
>> When it comes to live beer, old stock will hardly be in top condition.
>> Uncritical topers (or very thirsty ones short of drinking tokens) might
>> find it acceptable.
>
> Tokens certainly help.
>>
>> * The bloke down the pub was an independent landlord of a free house,
>> so he knew what he was talking about.  Possibly it was sour grapes but
>> to this cynical old toper it has the ring of truth.
>>
>
Today I am mostly helping out with a leftover 'spoon BeerFest beer not far  
 from me. It is 'Innis & Gunn Caribbean Rum Cask' - a mere 6.8% ABV beer at  
a ludicrous £1.69 pp.

No, I'm only pretending that other pint is for a late arriving friend,  
actually that's mine as well. Prolly some left if you hurry.
Burble.

Oh, the brekkie was mediocre. It's not all marvelous. But I'll suffer.

Buses hourly - best I don't miss the next one. Oh dear.




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Bah, and indeed, Humbug