What’s the most you’ve ever paid for a beer
€23 for a 330ml bottle of San Miguel in a club in Ibiza.
@wheelsonfire1 get yourself down to Dronfield brewery, at Unstone oddly enough. They do some really interesting beers. Also if you get membership for £10 then you get a discount. Think I saved more than that on my first order 👍
Think I’ve had some of their beers, Dronny Bottom? Perhaps this thread could be the start of support for small pubs and breweries in line with the ethos of supporting local bike shops and qualified mechanics? Artisan bread/coffee etc? Had some good beer again today, in a community owned pub, The Lowther Arms, £3.50 a pint for Skiddaw and Peak Bagger, excellent and also friendly staff. Always a bonus!
Pubs rule. They need our support now more than ever.
No pubs, no Monday Night Pub Ride, so that’s no good
We tried a new place tonight (The Pack Horse in Birtle) that I’ve ridden past loads of times but never been in as it tended to be mid ride. It was lovely. Cracking beer garden with a fantastic view back towards Manchester.
Cracking beer garden with a fantastic view back towards Manchester.
Saways a cracking view when you've you're back towards Manchester
Pubs rule. They need our support now more than ever.
I'd be quite happy if a fair few pubs in town closed to be honest, there's far too many.
£5-6 for a pint is about right these days I’m afraid, soft drinks have been on par with alcoholic drinks for at least 20 years.
Last time i stopped for a post ride pint, The newly reopened pub had gone to an app thing for ordering.
So you have to order on the app, which is made by the brewery. Lots of staff around but none prepared to take our order verbally.
The app took 20 mins to download cause of reception issues, then it only had the brewery's standard dross available, (Carling, tetleys, Guinness, bleurgh).
Then it was 13 quid for 2 pints
then it turned up in warm in a plastic cup, and was off.
Worst. Pint. Ever.
We kind of had the opposite problem last week; out for a walk and popped into a pub for a pint. I checked that it was okay if I paid by phone contactless (impromptu walk and pint, no wallet), and the very friendly woman behind the bar said that was fine, but there was a minimum of £10 for card payments.
No problem, we thought, two pints has got to be somewhere near (if not over) a tenner, we can always chuck some crisps in to top it up if needs be.
So, two pints, ordered. "How much is that?" I ask
"£5.80"
"Each?"
"Nope"
"Oh, blimey"
"It's alright", she said, "I can start a tab"
So we had a couple of bags of crisps, two more halves, and bought two more bags of crisps to take home and just scraped over the tenner.
Or have a weekend away for the two of you… sleeping behind the bins in a national trust car park and drinking supermarket own brand white cider…
#vanlife #living the dream 🙂
went for an end of ride pint or four in saltaire. Scan the code, go to the website, download and install the app, find out where you actually buy stuff, buy it for the pub you're actually sitting in as opposed to the one somewhere down the road, go to pay, remember your debit card number, enter that, get a message saying it's a 35 minute wait (in a quiet pub), bar staff assure us it will be less, pay I have no idea what for the beers for a few of us as not all could manage the app or something. Then there's all the fun afterwards of spreadsheeting the beers to see who owes me what and more faff to actually get given the money.
Only that last bit is exaggeration. It's enough to drive me to cider on the park bench...
So we had a couple of bags of crisps, two more halves, and bought two more bags of crisps to take home and just scraped over the tenner.
So basically, you got stiffed into paying more than you really wanted to. The 'minimum charge' thing has largely dissapeared, in fact most card service providers don't allow mincharge any more. So; cheap beer, but they still get their money out of you. I'd have walked out and gone somewhere with no mincharge (a fiver is ok, as that's barely a pint anyway these days).
Then it was 13 quid for 2 pints
then it turned up in warm in a plastic cup, and was off.
Why did you put up with that? Refuse, refund, go elsewhere.
You just need to drink in better places
Binners. Binners said this. Lol! 😀
Are pubs still doing this ordering by app nonsense? Worse than bloody self-service checkouts.
Grumble, moan, whinge, aren't policemen looking young these days?
spreadsheeting the beers
And folk say that Scots are tight.
It's all humans taking orders around here out in the sticks. Have used website ordering in bars in Leeds (rather than messing around downloading an app) and only took seconds to order, a few minutes to arrive. Felt like magic. Anyway... dedicated apps can stop now... enough.... do it online if you really want "distance" ordering, backed up by staff that care and are paid and respected properly. Paying by phone rather than cash can stay.
Coming soon to the Black Dog...
Have used website ordering in bars in Leeds (rather than messing around downloading an app) and only took seconds to order, a few minutes to arrive. Felt like magic
yep. I do this a fair bit and was describing the worst I'd come across.
And folk say that Scots are tight.
Not in Yorkshire we don't 🙂
I'd rather pubs don't close to be honest, it means that the other pubs get really full and that causes stress and bad behaviour, better to have lots of small pubs (I'm aware that the UK's stupid attitudes to business rates and commercial property costs and lack of realistic minimum wage makes this a nonstarter but that's a whole other thread because not just pubs)
We kind of had the opposite problem last week; out for a walk and popped into a pub for a pint.
Needs more details - where was this? I might need to plan a walk in the same area.
I have a confession to make. I went into Wetherspoons last week.
I badly needed a shit and it felt appropriate. Total cost: £0.00
Gives me the farts something chronic.😂
Theakston's for me. Known to a mate and I when ordering as "a pint of Finest Eggy."
Pub in Newcastle city centre, £7.40 for a pint of Magic Rock fantasma. Which for a 6.5 IPA was a tad rich but not far off the mark these days.
Cougar, don't give the ****er ideas for a new revenue stream!
Needs more details – where was this? I might need to plan a walk in the same area.
That used to be my local!
johnx2
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Then there’s all the fun afterwards of spreadsheeting the beers
jebus. 😆 I think the worst thing is probably that you freely admit to it as if it should be the accepted norm.
jebus. 😆 I think the worst thing is probably that you freely admit to it as if it should be the accepted norm.
Norm wasn't there welcomed though he doubtless is... I gave up denying things a long time ago but fwiw on this occasion having paid it wasn't my job to decide who owed what. Etiquet is to reluctantly accept what's thrust upon you. Ooer. Pubs used to be so easy: just try to be over-generous (whilst noticing who isn't). I've yet to adjust to paying at the end.
Just took a wee wander on the ebike up earl seat on the campsies. Finishing off with a quick pint before the train. £5.25 for a pint of menabrea oot here.
Etiquette is to divvy it up evenly. 😆
You win some you lose some.
Let the ones that want to penny pinch go to the bar themselves.
The accepted norm in a bar?
One thing I have noticed in the UK recently is that whilst beer hasnt gone up so much, the cost of soft drinks seems to be rising to the point where a large coke is the same as a pint of beer.
Agreed, ordered a pint of coke at a local last weekend and was surprised it was over £4.
The accepted norm in a bar?
His beer is 60% head!
I hope he paid less than 5 bucks for that abomination.
