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Beer, revisited

Now that stout has become fashionable again, I love what some of the smaller brewers are doing with it.

A decent stout, is a thing of beauty.

Absolutely, done well they are some of my favourite things.

I'm more happy though about the availability of some truly excellent porters and milds. I was quite worried mild would die a death, a quite beautiful drink made with care.
 
Absolutely, done well they are some of my favourite things.

I'm more happy though about the availability of some truly excellent porters and milds. I was quite worried mild would die a death, a quite beautiful drink made with care.

I agree, but as you know, outside of proper real ale pubs, mild is almost impossible to find anywhere.

There`s a dozen licensed premises by me and only one has mild on draught and that`ll probably go soon, with the new licensee wanting to liven the pub up.
 

I agree, but as you know, outside of proper real ale pubs, mild is almost impossible to find anywhere.

There`s a dozen licensed premises by me and only one has mild on draught and that`ll probably go soon, with the new licensee wanting to liven the pub up.

Yeah absolutely. I'm lucky to live within spitting distance of a few such pubs but none have a permanent mild on and I'm always happy when I see it available.

I'll try and put some pics up when I see them. For some reason I could never get camera pics to upload on here but it appears I've solved it so will now be able to expose my drinking much more openly on here lol.
 

Into administration, yeah - so we'll see.

Considering their waste of people's money, you wonder if they aren't the most business minded people



My local, which has always done it`s level best, to keep it`s prices down, due to the amount of old boys that drink in there, has had to put it`s beer up by 80p a pint, just to stand still.

They communicated the reasons for doing it to everyone beforehand, so it hasn`t made any difference, as everyone understands and is supportive.

You`ve got to fear, for pubs, where their custom comes from visitors though.
 
My local, which has always done it`s level best, to keep it`s prices down, due to the amount of old boys that drink in there, has had to put it`s beer up by 80p a pint, just to stand still.

They communicated the reasons for doing it to everyone beforehand, so it hasn`t made any difference, as everyone understands and is supportive.

You`ve got to fear, for pubs, where their custom comes from visitors though.
Some of the brews with high price points might face a difficult time. I don't feel it is appropriate for me to be buying some of the beers I normally would do. Just doesn't feel right. I am sure there will be many coming to similar conclusions.
 
My local, which has always done it`s level best, to keep it`s prices down, due to the amount of old boys that drink in there, has had to put it`s beer up by 80p a pint, just to stand still.

They communicated the reasons for doing it to everyone beforehand, so it hasn`t made any difference, as everyone understands and is supportive.

You`ve got to fear, for pubs, where their custom comes from visitors though.

Yeah it does wind me up a bit when people moan to staff about beer prices, 90% of places don't want to put their prices up
 

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