"had fallen to 36%"
http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/D...r-modern-times
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"had fallen to 36%"
http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/D...r-modern-times
Taking in part of a sentence from the first paragraph ,( " and its leaders now feel the time is ripe for an overhaul to meet the very different demands of the different beer world"), I personally think it's a move pushed on the "leaders" by dissenting voices a few rungs down the ladder, i.e the majority, and I am not entirely sure the "leaders" fully understand the" modern beer world" . I do agree change is necessary.
I was wondering what had happened to my "other" beer site:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04...woes_continue/. Cock up or incompetence?
"is celebrating the launch of its new Golden Ale"
http://www.eventmagazine.co.uk/event...rticle/1392791
Aptly named?
The Fleece Inn
Trading standards officers came to the pub last July, ordering a pint of lager and the ale. While the lager was acceptable, the ale contained 509ml of beer, about 5 per cent below the 540ml minimum, the court was told. A full pint is 568ml.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rter-been.html
found not guilty BTW
I thought that was an interesting article. For a start, in the article it's stated that there is a minimum amount for a pint of 540 ml. I didn't know that - anyone else heard of that?
Apparently the volume of the pint that caused the landlady so much grief was 509 ml (10% short measure), and if that's the volume of the pint she's holding then I would certainly be looking for a top-up! If a barman in my local 'spoons served up pints that short then it would take less than 5 mins in the job for him to be put very straight on the matter.
There is a guideline issued by someone, the British Brewers and Pubs Association I think, that a pint should contain at least 95% liquid (95% of 568 =540). No legal backing I believe as the relevant section of the Weights & Measures Act hasn't been activated. Mr Humphry at Sam Smiths insists on his pubs only serving 95% maximum. I wonder if it would have been quite so "ridiculous" if the Northallerton pub had been paid 10% less for the pint?
Short measure is endemic in the north I'm afraid due to the swan neck/sparkler thing, auto-vacs don't help either and you get a wet glass, however generally we're all used to it and only ask for a top-up if the pub is really taking the piss.
Not quite, try this one,
The Fleece
and here's the story in the local paper
Attachment 1348
Some interesting pictures of London pubs (and one in Kent), c1900-1971
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/...-a3240191.html
The guidelines can be found here. Interesting that pint glasses are always oversized. I'm not sure the "after the head collapses" bit makes that much difference, in my experience there's not much liquid in the head.
"bar staff had swapped WD40 for vegetable oil"
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/rea...using-11356329
That's a lot better than the man milk my mate found gracing a toilet seat in The Wagon Works (JD Wetherspoon) when he went the toilet in there last month at 10.30 am in the morning.
" is to introduce 18 British craft beers at its stores as it capitalises on "
https://www.theguardian.com/business...rs-supermarket
Shit beers from shit breweries.These are the same breweries that sell tasteless £50-£60 a barrel to Wetherspoons for their fests.All these beers have been on sale at Sainsbury, Tesco,Morrisons etc for the last while.B and M stores sell Sadlers Mud City stout for just over a pound a bottle (good beer).I would not drink beer from any of these brewers if I saw it in a pub.The pubs I use refuse to buy beer from these brewers at any price. (titanic excepted)
"system uses sparkling water and a unique beer "
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2016/06/...aft-coat-tails
"is to take control of the freehold of 13 extra pubs in a deal worth £13.4million"
http://www.canterburytimes.co.uk/She...ail/story.html
Today is Beer Day Britain, apparently,
http://www.beerdaybritain.co.uk/
Everyday has been National Beer Day for the last 23 years, bar 3 days, as far as I'm concerned.
Where to find the best beer...
on.ft.com/297vSl3
Edited - Sorry, link doesn't seem to work unless you're an FT subscriber. Not sure how I managed to read it the first time, as I'm not.
the dream is about to become reality: Belgium’s first major beer pipeline will start pumping beneath Bruges from September.
If all goes to plan, enough beer to fill 12,000 bottles an hour will slosh down the two-mile underground pipeline from De Halve Maan (Half Moon) in the city centre to an out-of-town bottling plant.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-beer-pipeline
I always assumed it was a joke when Southerners started banging on about how "they still paint their faces blue up North". It seems I was mistaken judging by this and what's more they are such savages they don't even wear clothes. I can assure you that you would never see such scenes of utter depravity and filth in Royal Tunbridge Wells or Haslemere.