Re: No more toast?

On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 14:42:52 -0000
Citizen Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.


Not round 'ere it ain't - it's £2.25 (OK "small") - but about
right with all the extra beer calories!

PS I got to the bus half an hour early - but that didn't matter as the bus
didn't. So I took a 4 hour detox^w detour.
-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.