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02-01-2013, 12:40
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I don't like to start the New Year on a negative note, but it is the blogger's lot to speak as you find.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mb7Ldvu5z2k/UOQitNTCJXI/AAAAAAAAEd8/ASnE3djsDwk/s320/plumpudding.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mb7Ldvu5z2k/UOQitNTCJXI/AAAAAAAAEd8/ASnE3djsDwk/s1600/plumpudding.jpg)I was in a local Lees Managed House over the festive period and keen to try Lees Christmas Seasonal, Plum Pudding, I ordered a pint. The young barmaid waited while the manager was using the handpump. There was a pint of Plum Pudding sitting at the side. The manager said to her colleague "You can have this." I immediately said that I would prefer not to have the last pint poured out of a cask - I assumed she was changing the barrel - and said so. The manager assured me it was not the last pint, but that there had been a problem with the connection and this one was fine.
Now as I am fairly well known in a lot of Lees houses (though not to the manager in this case), I dislike such situations. Someone is bound to say "I see the local CAMRA Bod is in complaining about the beer." So I reluctantly accepted the pint, which wasn't great, but not bad. My second pint was terrific though; sparkling, clean and delicious. Night and day. I knew then I had been "had". Serves me right. I had my doubts and should have stood my ground, but for mixed, or maybe mixed up, reasons I didn't. But I don't like being served beer that on the evidence available to me, was known by the manager to be less than optimal. Cask beer should never be served where there is a doubt as to quality.
It won't be that way next time when I have my doubts. My first New Year's Resolution!
Happy New Year to all my readers. Have a great 2013.
More... (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/silly-me.html)
I don't like to start the New Year on a negative note, but it is the blogger's lot to speak as you find.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mb7Ldvu5z2k/UOQitNTCJXI/AAAAAAAAEd8/ASnE3djsDwk/s320/plumpudding.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mb7Ldvu5z2k/UOQitNTCJXI/AAAAAAAAEd8/ASnE3djsDwk/s1600/plumpudding.jpg)I was in a local Lees Managed House over the festive period and keen to try Lees Christmas Seasonal, Plum Pudding, I ordered a pint. The young barmaid waited while the manager was using the handpump. There was a pint of Plum Pudding sitting at the side. The manager said to her colleague "You can have this." I immediately said that I would prefer not to have the last pint poured out of a cask - I assumed she was changing the barrel - and said so. The manager assured me it was not the last pint, but that there had been a problem with the connection and this one was fine.
Now as I am fairly well known in a lot of Lees houses (though not to the manager in this case), I dislike such situations. Someone is bound to say "I see the local CAMRA Bod is in complaining about the beer." So I reluctantly accepted the pint, which wasn't great, but not bad. My second pint was terrific though; sparkling, clean and delicious. Night and day. I knew then I had been "had". Serves me right. I had my doubts and should have stood my ground, but for mixed, or maybe mixed up, reasons I didn't. But I don't like being served beer that on the evidence available to me, was known by the manager to be less than optimal. Cask beer should never be served where there is a doubt as to quality.
It won't be that way next time when I have my doubts. My first New Year's Resolution!
Happy New Year to all my readers. Have a great 2013.
More... (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/silly-me.html)