tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post3720082187722489261..comments2024-03-28T17:11:52.333+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: A question of balanceCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-75149674993731276992013-04-09T17:27:09.230+01:002013-04-09T17:27:09.230+01:00"Which one pub would you buy if you had the m...<i>"Which one pub would you buy if you had the money Curmudgeon?"</i><br /><br />Depends which became available, really. I think the aim would be return somewhere from a heavily food-led model to something more like a proper multi-purpose pub. I accept it might not be highly profitable, but that isn't the point.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-70160862501248567962013-04-09T15:42:40.033+01:002013-04-09T15:42:40.033+01:00Which one pub would you buy if you had the money C...Which one pub would you buy if you had the money Curmudgeon ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-26484637564383106652013-04-06T11:35:00.465+01:002013-04-06T11:35:00.465+01:00Another common problem is the pub company outlet t...Another common problem is the pub company outlet that will offer a choice of, say, London Pride, Cumberland Ale, Doom Bar and Bombardier. Regardless of their individual merits, four beers of broadly the same style and strength.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-57219407553913039242013-04-06T11:30:11.656+01:002013-04-06T11:30:11.656+01:00Balancing the range and being aware of what your c...Balancing the range and being aware of what your customers want is key to pub success (among many other things of course).<br /><br />Most pubs are astonishingly bad at it. I agree with Tyson about JDW in this respect.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-12804176198030863242013-04-05T20:48:47.131+01:002013-04-05T20:48:47.131+01:00Went to Spoons last week. Apart from horrible Rudd...Went to Spoons last week. Apart from horrible Ruddles Best, nothing under 5%. Left. Went to proper pub.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-40967458639780414162013-04-05T19:55:42.079+01:002013-04-05T19:55:42.079+01:00Wetherspoons are, generally, poorer than most in b...Wetherspoons are, generally, poorer than most in balancing the pumps. I've had similar experiences to your own and the explination seems to lie with either the lack of a dedicated cellar man and/or a sufficiently competent manager. Sat In A Pubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123038980796000837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-3644010374522513812013-04-05T16:02:08.973+01:002013-04-05T16:02:08.973+01:00To be honest, I've often thought if I had a £1...To be honest, I've often thought if I had a £10 million lottery win, I would spend some of it buying a pub and running it according to my principles.<br /><br />It might not make a profit - especially if I decided to adopt the basic, wet-only rural pub model - but it would be fun ;-)Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-64286671497951090842013-04-05T15:58:52.673+01:002013-04-05T15:58:52.673+01:00Stop pissing it all away in pubs and you'd hav...Stop pissing it all away in pubs and you'd have some matey ;)<br /><br />Try necking nowt but Aldi Taurus Cider (<£2 per 2 litre) for a year and you'll be rolling in it.Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-59349699651130364352013-04-05T15:38:25.373+01:002013-04-05T15:38:25.373+01:00@Cookie - what money?@Cookie - what money?Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-87945172053847918062013-04-05T15:29:43.706+01:002013-04-05T15:29:43.706+01:00"If I ran a pub" Well, what's stoppi..."If I ran a pub" Well, what's stopping you? Stop moaning, get off your arse and put your money where your mouth is fella. <br /><br />Create the dumpiest family unfriendly bench seated craphole with no pork pies in the ploughman lunch you can imagine, fill it with boring brown bitter and old codgers, make a fortune and show that Tim Martin where to get off!Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-26632110516835222832013-04-05T15:20:35.705+01:002013-04-05T15:20:35.705+01:00All good ideas. A good range of strengths, flavour...All good ideas. A good range of strengths, flavours and serving temperatures is essential.<br /><br />Beerwise I'd probably have 3 regular handpumps from local breweries (a mild, a bitter and golden ale), and 3 rotating guest beers from further afield, and then 4 keg fonts doing a lager, a modern IPA, a wheatbeer or saison, and something dark. All British of course.SLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750653266156249490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-62589529215657050102013-04-05T15:05:52.449+01:002013-04-05T15:05:52.449+01:00I was actually just thinking about that question.
...I was actually just thinking about that question.<br /><br />I'd probably now look at having British brewed "craft keg" lagers such as Moravka.<br /><br />And, while my ideal pub is aimed at allcomers, not just beer geeks, I might think about having a guest craft keg ale, to allow the serving of stronger or more unusually flavoured beers that would not have sufficient turnover for cask.<br /><br />I'd have keg Thatchers Gold or Stowford Press cider as well.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-49627930726710850802013-04-05T14:56:36.151+01:002013-04-05T14:56:36.151+01:00"A range of cask beers available
At least on..."A range of cask beers available <br />At least one rotating guest beer <br />Beer range not weighted towards high gravity beers <br />Mild always available <br />Just as a suggestion: Bateman's Dark Mild, Whim Hartington Best Bitter and Taylor's Landlord as regular beers, and two guests, one sub 4%, one premium strength <br />No nitrokeg or keg ales of any description (I'd tolerate Dublin-brewed Draught Guinness) <br />All lagers are genuine high-quality imports <br />A good choice of British and imported bottled beers <br />Traditional cider available <br />Nothing whatsoever on sale produced by Bass, Scottish Courage, Whitbread or Carlsberg-Tetley "<br /><br />Would you make any changes to that on the basis of recent developments over the past few years?py0noreply@blogger.com