Random news of the day

[oldboots]

Obviously just a bit of fun


http://hereisthecity.com/2013/04/19/...inker-are-you/

[oldboots]

Here you go, another bloody list. Maybe they should have thread of their own?


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/de...reat-pubs.html

[oldboots]

Looks like Vince Cable might have beaten off Gideon's attempts to water down the proposals;

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/G...t-relationship

[oldboots]

Pub Sales down (again)


We need to pull our fingers out here,

http://www.beerandpub.com/news/uk-be...-from-the-bbpa

[aleandhearty]

Pub Sales down (again)


We need to pull our fingers out here,

http://www.beerandpub.com/news/uk-be...-from-the-bbpa

My understanding of the beer market in recent years is that although there continues to be a decline in the total amount of beer drunk, the real ale market is expanding. I seem to recall figures of 11% growth year on year, so not quite as bleak as it seems.

[NickDavies]

My understanding of the beer market in recent years is that although there continues to be a decline in the total amount of beer drunk, the real ale market is expanding. I seem to recall figures of 11% growth year on year, so not quite as bleak as it seems.

And the first three months of this year were particularly dreadful out. If a 3% fall in sales means 3% fewer visits to the pub because 3% of the time we decided to stay in rather than brave the elements then I'm not surprised. For regular pubgoers that's just a couple of nights in more than usual over the 90 days; and once a week boozers are far more easily put off. But last year you could sit in the pub garden for most of March. If we get wall to wall sunshine from now till September (some hope) that will all come back and more besides. It won't stop the usual moaning from the Trade of course, they'll never cheer up.

[oldboots]

The 3% drop is for total beer sales Q1 2013 against Q1 2012. For on-sales the fall is 5.5%, or 169,000 BBL (48.7 million pints).

For Q1 2013 against Q4 2012 the fall is a whopping 17.24% (2,977,000 BBL against 3,597,000 BBL), although lately the trend is for Q1 to be the quarter with the lowest consumption of the year with Q2 the highest then a slight dip with Q3 & Q4 having fairly similar consumption.

However overall on-sales consumption is dropping, since 2007 it's gone down by between 3% and 9% annually, 2012 was 4.7% down on 2011, the highest drop was 2007/8 (9%) as the smoking ban and then the recession bit.

[oldboots]

My understanding of the beer market in recent years is that although there continues to be a decline in the total amount of beer drunk, the real ale market is expanding. I seem to recall figures of 11% growth year on year, so not quite as bleak as it seems.

The latest Cask Report I have says 1.6% growth in cask ale market in 2011, with the total cask volume being 2.2 million barrels which it reckons is 15% of total on-sales.

[hondo]

" promptly set sail around the Scottish coast for seven weeks"
http://thebeercast.com/2013/04/great...xperiment.html

[AlanH]

Beer contains female hormones.

Last month, Sydney University and CSIRO scientists released the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer.

Men should take a concerned look at their beer consumption.

The theory is that beer contains female hormones (hops contain Phytoestrogens) and that by drinking enough beer, men turn into women.

To test the theory, 100 men drank 8 pints of beer each within a 1 hour period.


It was then observed that 100% of the test subjects :
1) Argued over nothing.
2) Refused to apologize when obviously wrong.
3) Gained weight.
4) Talked excessively without making sense.
5) Became overly emotional
6) Couldn't drive.
7) Failed to think rationally.
8) Had to sit down while urinating.

No further testing was considered necessary.

Send this to the men you know to warn them about drinking too much beer!!!