tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post1186554732491047797..comments2024-03-25T18:49:00.608+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: English as she is spokeCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-32790192336826973542015-10-20T16:31:32.412+01:002015-10-20T16:31:32.412+01:00'Craft Beer' ! Makes me laugh ! Overpriced...'Craft Beer' ! Makes me laugh ! Overpriced and very often keg ! Real Ale is still the product for me - Wadworth,Harveys, Batham, Holden, Enville, Hook Norton, Sam Smith, Theakston et al ! Long may they continue !!!Tim Goodacrenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-29488483935988830602015-10-15T18:28:01.010+01:002015-10-15T18:28:01.010+01:00Haha, and now Dickie English has spotted this and ...Haha, and now Dickie English has spotted this and has posted the following on the CAMRA forum (members only section):<br /><br /><i>"I went into Reigate Morrisons today and was initially delighted to see a sign on the bottle beer shelves saying "Real Ale". But my elation was soon to disappear when I found that all but to of the beers on sale were actually not bottle-conditioned and thus, by Camra's definition, not Real Ale.<br /><br />"The two exceptions were Sierra Nevada and the only British example was Shepherd and Neame 1698. As the sign was at the top of the beer shelves and nowhere near either of the Real Ale I reckon this is misleading advertising and I will be writing to Morrisons to tell them so." </i><br /><br />I'll keep you posted ;-)Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-25315746064337550032015-10-15T15:23:48.012+01:002015-10-15T15:23:48.012+01:00Offence?
I think if you run a pub and the beards ...Offence?<br /><br />I think if you run a pub and the beards start claiming your John Smiths Smooth isn't "real"? and threatening trading standards, it's easier to take the sign down or put a single bottle of Shite Shield in the fridge, innit?<br /><br />Easier than the cost of arguing that anything that can be observed as existentially existing is in fact "real"<br /><br />Why not have a quite life? At least this bunch of beardies aren't otherwise troubling your pub by drinking in it and annoying your paying locals with their pedantry. They are all down spoons or that middle class wankers multi beer micro pub.<br /><br />The beards try and tell Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsburys what is and isn't real. Well that might not be so easy. Them's got lawyers on tap and can well afford to tell the beards to sling their 'ook.<br /><br />Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-50020068324524441962015-10-15T14:07:31.950+01:002015-10-15T14:07:31.950+01:00I too shop in Morrisons. Real or not, I enjoy thes...I too shop in Morrisons. Real or not, I enjoy these bottled beers. My favourite is Yorkshire Blonde, which goes very well with Chilli. Well, actually, as a treat, my absolute favourite is Sierra Nevada, which comes in 335ml bottles and works out much more expensive per ml. I guess the term "craft beer" is to justify the price. A bit misleading, but since they do have a very good range of excellent beer, I don't hold it against them.Jonathan Bagleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17331501151709216753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-10515398732596821942015-10-13T23:53:07.630+01:002015-10-13T23:53:07.630+01:00I'm sure some CAMRA pedant can call them out o...I'm sure some CAMRA pedant can call them out on that but, on the other hand, I think there are one or two BCAs in there.<br /><br />I wonder what Trading Standards would say...Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-86704975607094433562015-10-13T23:44:49.582+01:002015-10-13T23:44:49.582+01:00Interesting, I haven't seen the "Real Ale...Interesting, I haven't seen the "Real Ales" sign but then I rarely go in Morrisons. Since it's an offence for a pub to advertise real ale when they don't sell any, I presume that technically it's also wrong for Morrisons. Sat In A Pubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123038980796000837noreply@blogger.com