A jaundiced view of life from the darkest recess of the saloon bar...
Excellent letter in today’s Sunday Telegraph (not unfortunately on their website):
Just one more glass
SIR – I fully support the suggestion (Letters, May 16) that lager should be served in continental-size glasses.
The best beer I ever tasted was at the Andechs Monastery in Bavaria. It was served in one-litre glasses.
T.J.W. Leyland
Boston, Lincolnshire
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Let's not go for this foreign nonsense - bring back quart glasses!
ReplyDeleteBack in the 1980s, a drinker of my acquaintance used to have a special quart glass kept for him behind the bar of the long-defunct Castlewood in Stockport, which he used to drink Wilsons Mild.
ReplyDeleteISTR Wetherspoons experimenting with 30oz glasses, but that seems to have died a death.
Litre glasses are fine as long as they are served by one of Cooking Lager's German girls. ;-)
ReplyDeleteTalking about the "Taverns of the Undead",Wetherspoons,they have stopped customers taking drinks
ReplyDeleteout on to their own outside
smoking area because it overlooks
a busy road.They're hoping the restrictions are applied to nearby
competitors who dont have alternative areas like Wetherspoons rear yard areas.Dont believe me ?
Nobody believed me about 21+ only
restriction and no headwear after 7pm,last orders at 10.40 pm
with 12pm advertised and quite a few more "kill the evening" ideas
now that they open at 7am.
Pity about those who work during the day.
Cynicus Maximus
It's well worth the walk up through the woods, on a hot summer's day, to enjoy a litre or two of beer at Andechs monastery!
ReplyDeleteIn the hot weather, a small bottle of ice cold lout stays cold. In hot weather the antipodian approach of small stubbies, ice cold, and a lot of them is nice.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen this, Cookie? ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Mudge. Lout appreciation is becoming a movement!
ReplyDeleteSimple but did make me rather chuckle.
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