Oubs closing

[Questions]

Just heard on the news that 6 pubs a day are closing as beer sales are down 1.4 million pints a day. People are drinking at home more and more as supermarkets offer better and better deals.

The trouble is, you cannot get a pint like you can down at the local can you ?
Lagerboys might disagree (but what do they know) but this week I`ve had a couple of lovely guest ales from a really hoppy American IPA to a lovely rich Porter.

Cant get them in the supermarkets fresh can you ?

 

[Questions]

Oubs closing ?

no more for me

 

[otk]

Just heard on the news that 6 pubs a day are closing as beer sales are down 1.4 million pints a day. People are drinking at home more and more as supermarkets offer better and better deals.

The trouble is, you cannot get a pint like you can down at the local can you ?
Lagerboys might disagree (but what do they know) but this week I`ve had a couple of lovely guest ales from a really hoppy American IPA to a lovely rich Porter.

Cant get them in the supermarkets fresh can you ?

Depends what you mean by fresh? As in out of a tap in a pub?

Sainsburys do a fair selection of bottled ales and sometimes have a 3-for-2 offer

Hic!

 

[Questions]

Depends what you mean by fresh? As in out of a tap in a pub?

Sainsburys do a fair selection of bottled ales and sometimes have a 3-for-2 offer

Hic!

Ok but never as good as a pint of cask............ is it?
Not that I refrain from bottled beer mind you.

 

[Legend]

I can smoke at home while drinking cheap lager !!!

 

[otk]

Ok but never as good as a pint of cask............ is it?
Not that I refrain from bottled beer mind you.

Try Fullers ESB

5.9% out of the bottle and only 5.6% out of the cask AND about £3.60 a pint

 

[Questions]

Try Fullers ESB

5.9% out of the bottle and only 5.6% out of the cask AND about £3.60 a pint

Try it.................. I practically live on it otk

 

[champion7]

I can smoke at home while drinking cheap lager !!!

Totally agree with you Legend.
Also i've heard from colleagues with door badges that The Ocean rooms and Karma are closing due to lack of customers.

 

[e77]

Totally agree with you Legend.
Also i've heard from colleagues with door badges that The Ocean rooms and Karma are closing due to lack of customers.

The problem with some night clubs (and to be fair I haven't been to either of the above) is they have a whimsical door policy when they are popular then wonder why no one wants to go there when they stop being the place to be seen!

 

[Alfred the greatx]

Terrible, I hear Worthing has recently lost the Egremont, Montague and Bull, sad.

 

[Mackenzie]

Its a difficult time for the trade, the government arn't cutting us much slack either.

 

[Spiros]

Terrible, I hear Worthing has recently lost the Egremont, Montague and Bull, sad.

The Bull reopened after a short time. It was certainly functioning with 3 decent ales on tap last Friday night, however having got used to the new licensing regime we were somewhat taken aback to hear last orders being called before 11pm.

 

[Jamon Jamon]

I used to use The Shakespear's Head just off Western Rd but during my last visit £3.20 for a pint of Fosters was (IMHO) a bit too much.



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[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Terrible, I hear Worthing has recently lost the Egremont, Montague and Bull, sad.

That is sad. My dad practically lived in the Egremont.

 

[sten_super]

I have a great deal of sympathy for pub landlords, who have been screwed both by the Government, who have seen fit to continually increase taxes, and the behaviour of supermarkets (and again the Government who have allowed supermarkets to continue to carry alcohol as loss-leaders).

However, some times they do not help themselves. When tax on beer increased by 4p per pint, one of the pubs round here that we go to occasionally joined with gusto all the anti-Darling sentiment, and the landlord continually entered into a diatribe about how they were being screwed. However at the same time, the prices went up immeadiately upon the announcement (despite the fact that the stock he had in would have been bought at a lower tax rate), and prices went up by 10p, instead of 4p (and they already have non-rounded prices, to make it look as if they are being forced to up prices by tax hikes). I had trouble feeling sympathy for him.

 

[Jamon Jamon]

The whole going to the pub expierence has changed for the worse over the years

1 The price of beer

2 Longer opening hours - means that punters go in at all hours of the day and sit vertually on their own while staff are being paid to do their uni homework, remember when pubs were open between 11-3 (or before that 2!) the pubs were packed at lunchtime and had atmosphere.

3 having a skinfull - gettin pissed in a pub is now deemed akin to shaggin a nun, "oooh i'll have a cappuccino and a J20 please" enjoy resposibly FFS!

4 Televisions - if you want to watch TV fuckin stay indoors "How's it goin mate? ssshhh Barnet are about to take a corner"

5 Smokin ban - I'm a non smoker but it's still a factor (only one of them, mind)


anyhoo, that's what I reckon


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[CHAPPERS]

The Ocean rooms.....are closing due to lack of customers.

Good riddance.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Good riddance.

Dont let Buzzer hear you say that, he has a VIP sofa in the chillout room there!

 

[NMH]

That is sad. My dad practically lived in the Egremont.

It was famed in the 70's for the great unwashed, and the childish practice of making soggy-tip darts from insides of cigarette packs and sticking them to the ceiling.

Hippy hangout.

 

[NMH]

I have a great deal of sympathy for pub landlords, who have been screwed both by the Government, who have seen fit to continually increase taxes, and the behaviour of supermarkets (and again the Government who have allowed supermarkets to continue to carry alcohol as loss-leaders).

However, some times they do not help themselves. When tax on beer increased by 4p per pint, one of the pubs round here that we go to occasionally joined with gusto all the anti-Darling sentiment, and the landlord continually entered into a diatribe about how they were being screwed. However at the same time, the prices went up immeadiately upon the announcement (despite the fact that the stock he had in would have been bought at a lower tax rate), and prices went up by 10p, instead of 4p (and they already have non-rounded prices, to make it look as if they are being forced to up prices by tax hikes). I had trouble feeling sympathy for him.

Good points raised there.
We ought to have a fiar-trading list put on NSC for pubs that don't do that sort of thing and don't rape their clientele on every pint.