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I agree. Second rate brewers, too.




A poor reason for rejecting the argument - what if they happen to be right? Does it matter that there are so few of them?



...an even worse argument....

No need for hand pumps when the future is keg.

...says another brewer...

Yes, she's a good read. "Bradley Cummings actually uses the phrase ‘I am the reset button’, which surely he has never said out loud keeping a straight face." "We need big ideas, not just tiny...

Interesting!

(Still can't stand Cwtch though.)

[I know - Groundhog Day was last Friday, but I couldn't resist. Memo to self: must try to take Revitalisation more seriously.]

Interesting!

(Still can't stand Cwtch though.)

My experience exactly. (Apart from being bought a half by the landlord, of course. That's just you.) I had a pint of Goose IPA recently and it had no discernible flavour at all. Why? Because it was...

Being in favour of "good beer" sounds superficially attractive. The problem comes when you try to define what is good. Protz mentions that Beavertown beers "are not filtered, fined or pasteurised and...

I had an amazingly good half of that one here.

You're right. This process is still going on of course, with nearly all the taste removed from all beers brewed under the Wolverhampton & Dudley banner (with the possible exception of Ringwood?)...

Thanks for the link. I thought the idea that carbon dioxide used with cask breathers would dissolve in the beer and make it fizzy had been properly debunked? [Is this what you mean about him getting...

Boddingtons Bitter is my favourite beer of all time - in its original manifestation of course. And I can vaguely remember getting very drunk on Old at the New Inn in Morecambe a long time ago...

Surely they can't redefine real ale so that it has to taste as good as it did forty years ago?

I think there's something in the last FAQ answer that may be relevant here: "There is a difference...

Thanks for the link. I think he's hit the nail on the head with this: " Indeed, it could be argued that the very rise of “craft keg” makes the need to champion real ale all the more pressing." I...

Sure, I get that. My point was that the "answers" to the FAQs were simply putting forward the argument for supporting the changes. Where's the argument for not making any changes?

Couldn't agree more. The answers to FAQs are all just a summary of NE policy positions. Reading them, I keep on expecting to see "on the other hand", but it somehow never appears.