Re: No more toast?

Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> 
> 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.

Brekkie for a fiver and £1.69 pints. Can't argue with that, and the 
brekkie can be smothered in ketchup.