Your favourite pint?

[lutonlagerlout]

pubs are shutting down 1 after the other round here
the royal oak,the well,the heron,the old english gentleman,the windsor castle,the bridge and on
the only places doing ok now are ones that do b and b or food
in the 70's my old fella was out every night some weeks,darts,football,dominoes,cribbage and just plain old drinking
i am a 1-2 night a week drinker max,hardly anyone is out on fridays anymore ?
LLL

[matt h]

a dying tradition for sure... there usedto be 39 pubs within this little area, and now there are about 12, and every year another one gets turned into flats

[Dave_L]

It's not surprising, given the astronomical price of beer.

[lutonlagerlout]

relatively speaking dave its cheaper now than it used to be
when i started drinking 25 year ago beer was 92p a pint,now its around £2.70,my old man earned around £100 a week then laying bricks on the cards (and tax was higher then) that is more like £700 a week now,cigarettes were a £ a packet then,now they are £5.50, 3 bedroom terrace house then £22k, now 150k
so if you think about it its just our perception of value that has changed
LLL

[Dave_L]

Yeah, point taken Tony - but I can buy three boxes (60 bottles) of Stella for £20 from my local Asda

But I miss out on the social side of drinking

We don't have a local pub round here, got sold for housing development

[pinkie]

do you lads still class a friday as builders night out ? straight from work and have a right good drink and a chance to get future work ?

[huggy]

....the next one...

[seanandruby]

in my heavy drinking days snake bites were a good pint to get me s**tfaced along with whisky, or, brandy chasers a lump of dope followed by a night in the cells, lol. thursdays were the best nights because it was payday. no matter how pissed you were you had to go in on fridays for....the sub :laugh:

[Stewart Towes]

One of my favourites has to be Carling Premier.Not many places stock it in my neck of the woods.So,its either Carling Cold or Guiness
Not into this drinking in the house carry on.

[James.Q]

lads on site ave gone soft just trying to get them to go for a pint at xmas is a logisticl nightmare

[TarmacLady]

My favourite? Whatever I can find that I think might resemble fresh!

I can buy Boddy's and Guinness (with the widget cans) easily here, and occasionally Newcastle Brown, but darned near anything else requires a trip to the specialty store, where it will be somewhere in the neighbourhood of $9 (£4.50) for a 6-pack.

Last time I ordered a Newcastle, dim waitress brought it to me in a glass so cold it was shedding chips of ice into my beer. I made her bring me a warm glass so it wouldn't kill all the flavour. (looked at me like I was daft!)

Somehow sister-in-law had managed to be given a few Old Peculier during our visit to the frozen North for our Thanksgiving holiday -- hubby was kind enough to clear those from her fridge for her!

[Tony McC]

Depends on where I am. I used to only drink Guinness when home in Ireland as the shite brewed in Britain was awful, but since they closed down the London brewery and ship it in from Dublin, it's got better.

I still like local bitter when in Britain; Matthew Brown's in Lancashire, Theakston's XB on t'other side of t'Pennines, 80 shilling in Scotchland, Marston's Pedigree in the Midlands, Wadsworth's 6X in the west country and Young's in that London.

I had the worst ever half of Guinness in San Francisco last year. Not only was it over-priced (12 dollars for a half!!) the eejit barman had no idea how to pour it and it tasted of burnt cork. They have a local ale called "Steam Bitter" that is exclusive to San Francisco, and, for an American beer, it's actually very good, far better than all those awful lager-type urine-flavoured alco-pops they normally serve up (no offence, Amy!).

[TarmacLady]

No offence taken at all -- our friends always take the mickey with us, as we've become well-known for not drinking crummy American beers. (if Budweiser or Busch is all that's on offer, we'll drink water or soda, as we just refuse to drink the stuff -- tastes bad and the hangover will have you praying for death.) Hubby's choice is either Guinness or a lovely stout called O'Hara's, brewed by Carlow Brewing Company in County Carlow, Eire. (It's just on the outskirts of Carlow Town.)

There are some good ones -- Anchor Steam being one of them -- Samuel Adams is a mass-produced beer, but can be counted on to be a reasonably good pint, and some of our micro-brews can rival some of the better British and European brews, but yeah -- good beer is expensive and hard to find here.

When I travel, it's a pint of whatever's on the hand engine, being brought up from the barrel in the cellar. Always fresh, always local, and always good.

[lutonlagerlout]

thats one thing i have noticed in the USA ,walked in a bar in miami and a bud was $4 went to a slightly posher bar over the road and it was $12 and the cheeky sod wanted to keep the change when i gave him $30 in bills for 2 buds!!
i find tipping of barstaff very stressful,they should just pay them a living wage and save all that crap
it engenders the master/servant relationship that went out of fashion 150 yrs ago.
Iceland and Japan tipping does not exist, but service is great wherever you go??
work that out
LLL