One pint = 568 ml, so a litre is 1.76 pints. £5 for 1.76 pints = £2.84/pint
(The courier charge of £7.95 bumps it up a bit. Makes it more like £3.23/pint, unless you buy lots.)
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I have just had to submit the first two (hopefully temporary) closures due to coronavirus outbreak that I have become aware of...
Just released by Camra:
The Campaign for Real Ale, which runs over 180 local beer festivals across the country, has cancelled all events – including local beer festivals – planned between now and the end of June following recent government advice on mass gathering.
All physical events, festivals and meetings, from branch to national levels, have been cancelled for an initial three-month period, with further cancellations to be considered regularly as the situation evolves.
Nik Antona, CAMRA National Chairman said: “While we understand the important social benefits of CAMRA and the huge pleasure in pub going, we feel it would be highly irresponsible to continue to promote gatherings of people in pubs – both of which have been advised against by the Government. We will, of course, be looking into what campaigning measure we can take to help support the British beer and pub industry during this unsettling time – and would repeat our calls for the Government to put together a support package to support the pub and brewery trade during this period.”
Notable events that have been cancelled include the inaugural Great Welsh Beer Festival, which was to make its debut in Cardiff from 22-25 April, as well as the Members’ Weekend, Conference and AGM due to take place in York from 3-5 April.
CAMRA’s flagship festival, the Great British Beer Festival, is currently under review as it is due to take place at Olympia, London from 4-8 August.
Nik Antona said: “It is with a heavy heart that we have made the decision to cancel a total of 45 beer festivals between now and the end of June. Every beer festival is run by a team of dedicated volunteers, and we deeply appreciate their hard work and support during this difficult time.
“While current Government advice is that all social gatherings should be avoided in the short term, we’d like to encourage all beer-lover and pub-goers to investigate ways to continue supporting the industry, whether that be ordering their brews online from independent retailers or supporting pub crowdfunding campaigns to keep afloat.”
More information on CAMRA events and activity will be provided as the situation unfolds.
There’s an emergency memo to branches also, with a little more detail but not much. More a political reaction to the mass hysteria, as sadly is required these days.
There are lots of micro and small breweries that have set up local deliveries, some for food also - check out your locals. Meanwhile Hog's Back have created a 'Drive through' at the brewery so you can order from your car without breaching quarantine.
Going back to the original question - the Palladium Spoons in Llandudno on a quick count had around 75% of drinkers obviously aged over 70 at 09.00 this morning, so some things don't change, even if numbers are down!
I was pleased to see both village pubs still open this evening, along with our award-winning village club (visited for purely medicinal reasons, of course)...
Somerset CAMRA has now cancelled all its events for the Summer, including the Ale Trail. The latter was justified as 'we cannot actively put our members in harm's way'. Whatever happened to free will? And why deprive struggling pubs of the extra customers this would bring in?
The Welkin (Wetherspoons) in Liverpool is currently accepting card only. They are also insisting that the entrance doors are open thereby making it feckin freezing in here.
If they up the incentive to £20 then I might consider drinking it - might...
Was in Elephant & Castle last night - essentially full but not packed. A newly printed sign behind the bar informed customers that in accordance with government guidelines, the pub's hours would be restricted from 12.00 to 22.00 - first I've heard of this.:rolleyes:
Gardeners Rest, a community pub, has reduced its hours to 5pm until 10pm, with last orders at 9.30. Decent crowd in there tonight (all keeping their distance, of course) and beer in great shape, but how much longer?
The Alfred, one of my two regular pub's is almost certainly closing down after tonight until whenever, the landlord is feeling a sense of social irresponsibility by staying open yet. I suspect feels he's letting his loyal regulars down, he's not happy with the lack of direction from the government on this, in my view they are passing the buck with there suggestions to avoid pubs. He plans to offer a takeaway service at the door.
It's all a bit of a bugger.
All Ego restaurants and their associated pubs are now closed according to the email I've just received from them
ASK are doing the same. :(
The Pilcrow in Manchester, the start point for the PuG crawl has just announced they've closed for the time being.
Only one local pub recorded so far as closing, lots doing carryouts and even home delivery. Rudgate wiil deliver a nine and handpump for £110 (HG & YO postcodes only). Local breweries are mostly offering delivery and even10% off on small pack. Most pubs staying open but may reduce hours. The local useless bus company are going to a Saturday only timetable for Monday-Saturday, no word from the railco’s yet.
Is it wise to mark as closed pubs that are in 'hibernation'? If countless pubs are marked as closed, it will be a devil to sort through them to see which are reopen as and when. And what if all pubs are forcibly closed? Should we go through the entire database and mark all as closed or just shut down the website itself? Surely common sense should prevail...
Common sense is prevailing. Do you want to travel out to a pub and then find it's closed?
As long as they're marked as temporary closures and the explanation as to why it's only temporary in the reason box (which is what the guidelines say anyway).
Have a look at what I have done for The Pilcrow and the others and do the same. I have the facility to get a list of these and reopen them when it becomes appropriate.
If it gets ridiculous then a rethink may be required.
If all pubs get closed I will then be able to catch up on my backlog of reviews. :cheers:
The list currently stands at 50, only 7 of these are due to coronavirus so far.
I've been maintaining this list since 2015.
Originally when pubs got closed for a refurb, whoever marked them closed often forgets to reopen them or never visits the area again.
One of the joys of being an admin, you get to do all sorts of crap that no-one else wants to. :evilgrin:
Please note.
I do NOT have a list of pubs closed as permanent using "other" as the reason even if it says temporary in the reason.
They have to be closed as "Being Refurbished" which gives a status of Temporary.
I've amended the ones that you did Richard, my fault for not explaining it well enough.:o
So to be clear. Choose "Pub is being refurnished" to give a status of Temporary and mention coronavirus in the text.
That will then get picked up by Dave's SQL :cheers:
I visited 4 local pubs last night as I think they will close all pubs pretty soon and they were a lot quieter than usual.Spreading my money around locally or spreading a virus around.Depends on your point of view.Two of them were card only and one had reduced the price of cask by 50p.Tough times ahead for the pub trade.
But they don't then show up on the pub map, which makes it difficult to know to revisit when in the area. How easy would it be to give those temporarily closed a different pin colour so they still come up on the map, as closed, for now, but we know to try them out at a later date?
It seems incredible that I started this thread on a curious idle whim just two weeks ago.
I've had emails today saying that the E8 Pembury is only doing collections as of today and that rail services are being halved as of Monday.
Currently drinking in the Guildford Arms Edinburgh it’s eerily quiet,card payments only and half the usual taps on
Was out last night things are changing.
The Royal Oak winding down stocks Amstel done so had to have a Heineken for my last pint, was busy, but they aren't ordering anymore in and wine was BOGOF and they were doing Guinness take outs for £2 in a pint coffee cup with only one bar staff on and teaching the chef to pour pints and use the card machine. Likely to shut soon according to barman that we know.
The Anchor student night rammed 2 weeks ago about 20 in last night. Just given a student price pint and card only. Landlord says just waiting for Stonegate to say they need to shut.
The Drapers Arms micropub takeout only according to my mate I was out with when he walked home passed it.
UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson tells cafes, pubs and restaurants to close tonight
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...08a08573fbe874