Is the Coronavirus affecting pub trade?

[sheffield hatter]

I drew the line at ordering a French Kiss from the bearded barman the other month. I'm unwilling to invest in Sours, and am not that keen on fruit additions.I'll probably be drummed off this site, but I can't stand Titanic Plum Porter,or Kissingate Cherry MILD.

I'm with you on all of those. I can't see both of us being thrown out...

[sheffield hatter]

...there are CAMRA people that attend their beer festivals but claim not to like micropubs!

There are people buying apples in the market who claim not to like oranges!

I would suggest such people are idiots.

...or perhaps they don't see the same qualities in both beer festivals and micropubs that you do?

[Tris39]

That's why I've got rid of my can crusher, my mate uses his hands I use my left Reebok from a height, can goes into denial.

Got to admire your can-do attitude!

I draw the line completely with Sours...

Yup!

[Mobyduck]

There are people buying apples in the market who claim not to like oranges!





...or perhaps they don't see the same qualities in both beer festivals and micropubs that you do?

At 03.07 this morning I couldn't be bothered to spell hypocrites , so idiots it is. That's if these people exist, not my words.

[Mobyduck]

People in Camra idiots - surely not

Apparently so.

[Mobyduck]

At 03.07 this morning I couldn't be bothered to spell hypocrites , so idiots it is. That's if these people exist, not my words.

It would be like me and other like minded people going to a Wetherspoons beer festival.

[london calling]

Unfined cask doesn't trouble me at all , my favourite brewery of last year , Vibrant Forest do imo some fantastic stuff even if it does look like Orange juice, I am aware though that unfined beer does not agree with some people physically. Sours I wouldn't have gone near five years ago, but am now getting into some on occasion. In defence of Roger Protz, we're not mates or anything like that but I have been out drinking with him on a couple of occasions and he visits my local two or three times a year, he's a decent and interesting chap in my book, I know he champions old school beer but he is quite open to new stuff as well ,
as far as politics go I have no interest in them whatsoever in any walk of life let alone the beer world, which is why that although I'm a CAMRA member I don't get to involved at branch level.

My beef with Protz ( cant deny he is very knowlegeable about beer)is he writes too many articles about the family brewers of Britain.We know everything there is to know about them and its boring.He still champions the boring bitter brigade rather than the new kids on the block.

[london calling]

I'm with you on all of those. I can't see both of us being thrown out...

Me too.

[rpadam]

Roger Protz: "He still champions the boring bitter brigade rather than the new kids on the block."

This is why I like his alternative point of view!

[Aqualung]

My beef with Protz ( cant deny he is very knowlegeable about beer)is he writes too many articles about the family brewers of Britain.We know everything there is to know about them and its boring.He still champions the boring bitter brigade rather than the new kids on the block.

I agree. Not all of the new breweries are what you might call "craft". Two near me, ELB & Redemption are almost entirely cask and generally old school. He is widening the schism between younger craft fans and the fossils that refuse to accept that there are much better beers around than those from most of the old independents. His blatant support for Bass should result in his removal as editor. You have to wonder if he's getting a bung from Mouldy Corpse.