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    Quote Originally Posted by Spinko View Post
    When have you heard of anyone under 18 drinking real ale?
    Not sure if you mean nowadays - but certainly my school friends and I were almost brought up on the stuff!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ETA View Post
    Not sure if you mean nowadays - but certainly my school friends and I were almost brought up on the stuff!
    Just going off my mates, the earliest most people get into real ale these days is mid-20s...that's with a lot of persuasion and usually by pointing out they can get a 5% pint for under £2 in Wethers...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spinko View Post
    When have you heard of anyone under 18 drinking real ale?

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    Our son (20) drinks real ale and appreciates it, but finds it difficult to get his mates into the pub-in York of all places...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wittenden View Post
    Our son (20) drinks real ale and appreciates it, but finds it difficult to get his mates into the pub-in York of all places...
    You can just imagine several fathers thinking What! you're in York and you're drinking WKDs / Stella / Magners.
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    The last time I went to France (20 years ago now) the price of beer in a bar was the same as London (not Spoons) prices but the supermarket prices were very cheap. The same applied in Belgium I seem to recall.


    By "France" I don't mean Paris or any other major City but Brittany. If this goes ahead in France the French will just drink the House Red rather than beer resulting in diminishing returns of duty.
    Presumably it will hit booze cruises if they still occur.

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