The pubs

[T4tomo]

Neck Oil is overpriced for what it is, a cricket club near me has it for £6.50 a pint. At one time there might have been the production costs of a small independent brewers excuse, but now that they're owned by Heineken it might just be big corporate greed.

I always find Neck Oil a bit fizzy, but then so is Heineken.

 

[figbat]

Our local closed suddenly last September. Up until then it offered one hand pulled beer and a couple of fizzy lagers. The ale was a lottery as to whether it was OK to drink or not.

The pub was bought by a local syndicate and reopened with 3-4 hand pulled ales (one house ale, one usually fixed and the others rotating) and 12 gas-pumped taps with a rotation of IPAs, lagers, ciders and stouts. Hand-pulled is around £5.90 a pint, the gas taps can be up to £9 a pint! 😳

That’s said, the pub is now buzzing with life whereas before it was empty and lifeless.

 

[T4tomo]

BrewDog beers axed by 2000 pubs across the UK



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I actively avoid Brewdog. That James Watt sounds like a right piece.

 

[figbat]

I actively avoid Brewdog. That James Watt sounds like a right piece.

Me too. I used to drink their beers and enjoy them but I gave up on them a while back after the various reports of how they treat staff and investors. One thing they did do though is kick start the ‘craft’ IPA revolution.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've just got back from my 65th birthday pubs event. I wouldn't call it a pub crawl as we only visited four. Out of the four pubs we visited, I have to say that Accrington Wetherspoons was the 'nicest', which tells you something about the other three! In one pub a female took my hat off my head from behind me, saying she wanted to try it on, with her putting it back apologetically after I shouted at her to leave it alone!!! The other two had hideous thumping music on, making conversation impossible! Thank god I made the four mile bus journey home safely! 🙄👎