How Will Pubs Open?

[Wittenden]

Here's another gloomy forecast. Let's be clear, most people reading this are pub and beer enthusiasts, In my case I'm more of a beer enthusiast but that's not the point. Most of Joe Public aren't. How on earth are pubs going to attract ordinary folk back after what looks loke being a long time? Joe Bloggs will have realised what a poor deal was on offer on Friday night in Central London compared to having beer from the supermarket or even delivered by a local brewery.
I got an email from Five Points brewery which said I could get three cases of 5.5% JUPA for fifty quid delivered to my door. How many breweries will find this a more convenient and more profitable way of trading after the pubs open again?

I agree up to a point, but pubs offer a sense of community that can't be afforded by visiting a cafe or hanging out in the park. I would like to think that cabin fever will promote mass pub visiting.

[bcfczuluarmy]

My thoughts are once doors reopen people will flock back just to be free again, there's four walls and four walls that sell beer.

[Al Bundy]

My thoughts are once doors reopen people will flock back just to be free again, there's four walls and four walls that sell beer.

I totally agree. The first few weeks after reopening will see people off to regular haunts and to see which have survived and, sadly, which have not. I for one will be out of the traps immediately.

[Aqualung]

I'll probably be doing the same but what of the general public? I'm guessing only time will tell.

[Komakino]

Agree with Wittenden, bcfczuluarmy and Al: if lockdown ends in time for summer, people will be out celebrating like its 1999 / VE Day and those pubs that do re-open will reap the benefits.

[london calling]

Yes everyone will be out initially but I have found through long experience that when I only used local pubs some regulars who drank 6 or 7 days a week had to stop drinking for a while for whatever reason rarely went back to the old routine. I think a lot of people will cut back .

[Aqualung]

Happily my doom laden predictions are being rejected by most. Being pessimistic is one of the pitfalls of being a miserable old git!

[Aqualung]

I don't know if this has any relevance whatsoever but the local Flower Pot has boarded up windows.
Like most of the area it's owned by the Ee-Aww Group, There was never such a monopoly in the big six brewery days.

[Tris39]

I don't know if this has any relevance whatsoever but the local Flower Pot has boarded up windows.
Like most of the area it's owned by the Ee-Aww Group, There was never such a monopoly in the big six brewery days.

I've seen several pubs that are now boarded up. I suspect that this is to protect them from vandals.

[NickDavies]

I've seen several pubs that are now boarded up. I suspect that this is to protect them from vandals.

Indeed. A load of blx going on in some parts I'm afraid. The longer this goes on the more difficulty they'll have keeping a lid on it.

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