The horror...the horror...

[swee'pea99]

Couldn't they just have called for volunteers? I'm always happy to help out if I can...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...70m-pints-of-beer-down-the-drain-coronavirus?

 

[Grant Fondo]

That would have been a heck of a session

 

[raleighnut]

Why didn't the 'Landlords' just drink it themselves or are they like drug dealers, sell the 'product' but don't use it personally.

 

[MichaelW2]

Why not distill it and use the alcohol for hand sanitizer?

 

[Smudge]

Meanwhile, the greedy money grabbing breweries are still wanting the rent from the pub tenants. Pubs will be shutting for good at an even faster rate than they were already.

 

[tom73]

Not all of them some are being good with rents But many are not sadly.

 

[Beebo]

Why didn't the 'Landlords' just drink it themselves or are they like drug dealers, sell the 'product' but don't use it personally.

I imagine the odd pint here and there has been drunk. But In order to reclaim the beer duty they have to demonstrate how much beer has been thrown away.

 

[raleighnut]

Meanwhile, the greedy money grabbing breweries are still wanting the rent from the pub tenants. Pubs will be shutting for good at an even faster rate than they were already.

It's not so much the breweries but more the 'Pubcos' who have driven the rents up (companies like Punch Taverns)
These were set up when the government at the time decreed that breweries owned too many Pubs and told them to sell off a proportion of their holdings to increase 'market choice and competition'. These 'holding companies' were a scam and caused at least 4 publicans I was good friends with (and still am friends with) to get out of the trade. these were

• Mark - The Magazine Hotel
• Andy - The Princess Charlotte
• Dave - The Durham Ox
• Nicki - The Black Boy

 

[raleighnut]

It's not so much the breweries but more the 'Pubcos' who have driven the rents up (companies like Punch Taverns)
These were set up when the government at the time decreed that breweries owned too many Pubs and told them to sell off a proportion of their holdings to increase 'market choice and competition'. These 'holding companies' were a scam and caused at least 4 publicans I was good friends with (and still am friends with) to get out of the trade. these were

• Mark - The Magazine Hotel
• Andy - The Princess Charlotte
• Dave - The Durham Ox
• Nicki - The Black Boy

There were many others but these were like I say good mates so I know exactly why they packed it in, would you fancy paying a couple of thousand quid a week before you even made a wage not to mention rates, gas, electric, wages for staff etc.

EDIT - BTW none of these Pubs exist any longer.

 

[Drago]

If their licences permit it they could surely flog a lot of that while keeping within the regs? The Guardian is as hysterical as the Mail these days, only differencenthey wear cardigans and live in Knightsbridge.