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16-12-2011, 15:30
Visit the Tandleman's Beer Blog site (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/point-of-view.html)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2fmo7Vq2gvo/Tutnfi47DTI/AAAAAAAADBw/TwmvTmSQwfU/s200/heineken.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2fmo7Vq2gvo/Tutnfi47DTI/AAAAAAAADBw/TwmvTmSQwfU/s1600/heineken.jpg)I was out delivering our CAMRA Branch magazine (which I edit) today. As always I try and have a quick word with the licensee, just to see how things are. Maybe its different elsewhere or maybe we just have a better relationship with ours, but I always find them keen to talk to CAMRA. At one pub the licensee was bemoaning his limited cask guest beer list - a common complaint. He was also denied for reasons of which he was unsure, to a more wide ranging list which the PubCo also runs. I cooed sympathetically and asked "Is it Enterprise?" - as it usually is in such cases. "No" quoth he, I wish it was. It's Heineken. Bastards!".
The licensee also tells me things have got a lot worse since they took over from Scottish and Newcastle. So there. Enterprise aren't, in some eyes at least, as bad as Heineken. That should cheer old Tough Ted Tuppen up.
For all PubCos say about how things are much better for their tenants, I can tell you that's not what they tell me.
At least the pub was busy when I called at lunchtime, so that's something.https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8629758183547510158-2720788502919060152?l=tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.c om
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2fmo7Vq2gvo/Tutnfi47DTI/AAAAAAAADBw/TwmvTmSQwfU/s200/heineken.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2fmo7Vq2gvo/Tutnfi47DTI/AAAAAAAADBw/TwmvTmSQwfU/s1600/heineken.jpg)I was out delivering our CAMRA Branch magazine (which I edit) today. As always I try and have a quick word with the licensee, just to see how things are. Maybe its different elsewhere or maybe we just have a better relationship with ours, but I always find them keen to talk to CAMRA. At one pub the licensee was bemoaning his limited cask guest beer list - a common complaint. He was also denied for reasons of which he was unsure, to a more wide ranging list which the PubCo also runs. I cooed sympathetically and asked "Is it Enterprise?" - as it usually is in such cases. "No" quoth he, I wish it was. It's Heineken. Bastards!".
The licensee also tells me things have got a lot worse since they took over from Scottish and Newcastle. So there. Enterprise aren't, in some eyes at least, as bad as Heineken. That should cheer old Tough Ted Tuppen up.
For all PubCos say about how things are much better for their tenants, I can tell you that's not what they tell me.
At least the pub was busy when I called at lunchtime, so that's something.https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8629758183547510158-2720788502919060152?l=tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.c om
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