dreadful news!

[ninjarabbi]

Apparently pubs have had to throw away over 70 million pints of beer having closed because of the virus. That an only be summed up one way.....

 

[vim_fuego]

I am starting to get seriously agitated by a minority online who are enjoying such headlines as these...Those people who have decided they are non-drinkers and believe everyone else should be as well...I like getting p1ssed and its got fook all to do with them.

 

[SAXAVORDIAN]

I bet temperance lobby must have wet dreams seeing beer thrown down the drain. I guess there going to be a lot of pissed fish and crustacean easy to catch. I remember working for a brewery during my life as an agency work. We had a trailer from Stella Atoi pallets of bottles waiting to offload. Due to the slope of the yard for rolling of the barrels the driver being new he unstrapped before the forklift could arrived. You can guess what happen besides the noise of bottles cascading down, the smell was wonderful and very heady as I staggered home with free beer.

 

[vim_fuego]

Maybe this is the 'reset moment' that the pub trade needs? For a long time now we've had a slagging match between pubs and supermarkets about prices with one sector in growth (Asda et al) and the other stating that 'x' amount of pubs a week are going out of business.

It has made little sense to me...The same breweries supply both outlets but they are happy for a bottle of Doom to cost £1.50 in Asda and for a pint of Doom to cost £3.50-4.50 a pint in a pub (and I live in Cornwall 30 mins from Rock). Anyone who dares to take up a tenancy is contracted in to those prices with testing sales targets and a whole bunch of pressure...They make the money largely out of the food rather than the wet sales. The pricing strategy has forced more of the population into their own front room rather than a beer garden and likely increased binge drinking with it.

How about levelling the playing field here? Arguably more will drink responsibly in a social setting? If you have to think about your own deportment and conduct plus negotiating the walk or taxi ride home? Stop stiffing the landlords with ridiculous unit prices for beers...Give them a more competitive edge against supermarkets. People, after this reset that C19 forced upon us, might just be able to fall back in love with a weekly visit to the boozer if they aren't getting stiffed in the pocket.

 

[Rocket_Ronster]

Maybe this is the 'reset moment' that the pub trade needs? For a long time now we've had a slagging match between pubs and supermarkets about prices with one sector in growth (Asda et al) and the other stating that 'x' amount of pubs a week are going out of business.

It has made little sense to me...The same breweries supply both outlets but they are happy for a bottle of Doom to cost £1.50 in Asda and for a pint of Doom to cost £3.50-4.50 a pint in a pub (and I live in Cornwall 30 mins from Rock). Anyone who dares to take up a tenancy is contracted in to those prices with testing sales targets and a whole bunch of pressure...They make the money largely out of the food rather than the wet sales. The pricing strategy has forced more of the population into their own front room rather than a beer garden and likely increased binge drinking with it.

How about levelling the playing field here? Arguably more will drink responsibly in a social setting? If you have to think about your own deportment and conduct plus negotiating the walk or taxi ride home? Stop stiffing the landlords with ridiculous unit prices for beers...Give them a more competitive edge against supermarkets. People, after this reset that C19 forced upon us, might just be able to fall back in love with a weekly visit to the boozer if they aren't getting stiffed in the pocket.

It worked when the breweries owned most of the pubs.
It was Maggie's wonderful idea to break up a working system, 87/88ish.

 

[vim_fuego]

It worked when the breweries owned most of the pubs.
It was Maggie's wonderful idea to break up a working system, 87/88ish.

I would say that 75% of the pubs in Cornwall are owned by St Austell Breweries. I can sit in my favourite pub beer garden and see the chimney of the brewery and yet they sell Tribute at £4.75 a pint. I can buy 4 bottles of Tribute for £6 in Asda 3 minutes away.

 

[Allflapnofly]

Beer is the yeast of our problems.....

 

[busby1971]

Drinking in a pub isn’t a day to day social activity for me these anymore, it tends to be part of a wider activity or a bigger celebration.

I have a nice house, my friends tend to have nice houses and my neighbours have nice houses, so that’s where we tend to socialise these days, talking of which I’ve just put the new BBQ together.

 

[Rigga]

The Pub prices thing is all about the Landlord’s taxes Taxes on Beer and Wine in Pubs and then pub fees and rents, including exorbitant Telly fees, Business and Water rates.

 

[SAXAVORDIAN]

Do you remember the days of sitting down in a fusty smoke filled pub. Beer in one hand darts in the other waiting your turn on. Or being SO lathered to find out your now banned from every pub the next day. Better still being drag feet first to your own 8x6 room in Stafford.