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PURELY SPECULATION, but this is my guess at what has happened: The club (or more accurately, the caterers) have said to Harveys “You’re too expensive. Drop your prices or you’re out”. They wouldn’t of course, have necessarily MEANT it. Standard bargaining tool. Harveys then leaked this to a...

It is, insofar as there are some decent analogies. Where it falls down, as usual, with the real ale types, is the hard statement as fact, that people only 'drink pissy lager to get drunk'. Its silly nonsense. Why not just accept that people actually LIKE lager? Even fairly weak, gassy lager...

It isn't.

Where is it actually brewed? (I don't know). If its still MADE in Cornwall, using Cornish ingrediants, and employing Cornish people, then its as 'local' as it ever was, regardless of who owns it. Would HArvey's cease to be local to Sussex, if Heineken bought them out?

:down: Sorry!

Absolutely. THis brings us to another THEORETICAL conundrum. There are suggestions on here, from someone in the trade, that the wholesale prices of Harveys are relatively steep. Then there are suggestions from the real ale fans, that nothing else will do. So, lets just say for arguments sake...

Fair enough. Why 'Bloom's relented'? though. It was a made up rumour in the first place. It was never going to happen, and it certainly didn't get reversed in the space of 12 hours because of some opposition from half a dozen beardy keyboard warriors!

Seriously - you've completely lost me. Its nothing to do with what was posted afterwards. The change of beer was mooted, and immediately the poster in question suggested a boycott, which I immediately challenged. What came later merely proved me right to have suggested that the boycott...

Well done. There's no need to take anything at all in the context it was written, is there? My point was that to suggest such a boycott over something of this relative (lack of) importance was wrong. There was originally a suggestion, stated as fact, that the brand of BEER would change. Ten...

Now you put it like that... Barber OUT.

Hahaha. Give me fcking STRENGTH. I think you might be getting a little TINY bit carried away there. The (made up) suggestion, was actually to replace the brand of beer at the refreshment kiosks, rather than to lay down arms and welcome in nazi invaders. Similar though.

You've not actually READ the thread then?

Where did you hear this!?!? Barber OUT!

Not everywhere in the world, it isn't. He's either on one of his massive world tours, or recently back, and his phone is still set to Aussie time. Or something.

Haha ha. What a load of pant wetting over nothing. Amazing.

If so, that's a pity.

I didn't say you should back it. I said that trying to rally other people to support you in a boycott of OTHER products was wrong. I say wrong - what I meant was over-the-top, petty and embarrassing. Why be talking about 'last options' anyway? Nobody knows that this is even TRUE, let alone what...

Cracking post. (except the STRAWBERRY milk bit. Yuk)

People who are not REALLY proper ale drinkers. One's who are far less sophisticated and discerning than doug.

Ha. You put it so much better than I did.