[Closed] Coffee pricier than beer moan.

Would I expect one in a pub? No, not ever.

Pubs are nice convivial comfortable places. Why would one not want to pop into one during the day and have a coffee?

Beer is essentially some barley and flowers mixed with water and allowed to rot

poncy water is worst. especially in ski resorts. beer (if you can call stella/1664 that) is water that's been processed, and taxed more than most things, but is cheaper than the water that came out of the bottom of the mountain you're skiing on!

molgrips - Member

Pubs are nice convivial comfortable places. Why would one not want to pop into one during the day and have a coffee?

what he ^ said.

or even; 'one has had a couple of lovely pints, but one really needs to be up and about with a clear head in the morning. One would really like a peppermint tea, and would be happy to pay £2 for it for the extra 20mins chatting shite with one's pals'

or has one gone too far?

Comfortable?
Convivial?
Coffee?

Pfft!

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The syphon particularly? Because it takes about 20 minutes, and, as much as it is a good coffee, a pub is not the place.

As far as popping in at lunch time for a coffee goes, that's fine, so long as you don't eat lunch after 6pm. Oh and so long as you're not going to occupy a table which someone wants to sit at to eat lunch if all you're doing is drinking a coffee, fine when it's quiet, not so fine when is busy.

If you would like to order a coffee which takes 20 minutes to make mind they do have syphons in ozone coffee (nice eggs benedict, though personally I found the coffee to be a bit under roasted for my tastes) similar outlets are available around London in sure, (though for those of us outside the m25 most coffee shops will remain green and white monstrosities) the thing is that's what their business is about, they exist to provide that and that's good, don't expect a great reception from them though if you order three stellas and a packet of pickled onion monster munch. Equally those pubs which want to serve coffee (rather than are/feel obligated) will doubtlessserve your double macchiato with a very smile and an ammereti biscuit. On the other hand those who serve coffeeby obligation will likely treat you with disdain, the same as if you ordered three pints of water and nothing else.

20 minutes to make a coffee?!

Best have a pint while you're waiting

binners - Member
Anyone who orders coffee in a pub needs frog marching out of the door, possibly at gunpoint, then given a proper shoeing by a lynch mob of angry regulars, to teach them the error of their ways about what a total pain in the arse they're being! Then if/when they've regained consciousness, pointed beaten and bleeding in the direction of one or more of the approximately 9 ****ing million coffee shops that are now cluttering up the nation!

Coffe in a pub? I suppose you want a copy of the white company catalogue or a PG Woodhouse to read while you're sipping it? There are places for people like you, they're called cafes. Or tea rooms, if you prefer tea.

Pubs are nice convivial comfortable places. Why would one not want to pop into one during the day and have a coffee?

Because one is amply served by the vast range of cafés available in every town.

I thought we weren't supposed to go into big chain coffee shops and support local businesses instead?

Of course you may be with other people who want a drink but you may not be drinking yourself....

molgrips - Member
I thought we weren't supposed to go into big chain coffee shops and support local businesses instead?

I don't think I've ever set foot in an independent pub which also has a coffee machine. IME the machines are the province of the "foisted on us by head office" brigade, or of course, coffee shops where I expect you would find a machine regardless of its chain/independent status.

I thought we weren't supposed to go into big chain coffee shops and support local businesses instead?

If I want a coffee, I use locally-run cafés, not Wetherspoons.

ransos - Member

If I want a coffee, I use locally-run cafés, not Wetherspoons.

But some pubs have comfy chair/sofa whatever ... 😆

Well I'm glad you know all the pubs and coffee shops in every town in Britain so you can tell me what I should be doing. This has been a great help 🙂

Enjoy your trip to the Harvester. Deposit your will to live by the front door.

Obviously you should drink coffee in coffee shops and beer in pubs... I dare say you *could* do it the other way around but why any one would want to escapes me.

On a relevant (ish as it's part of my assertion about independent pubs not having coffee machines) note:

At what point does something cease to be independent? 2 outlets 20? 2000?

I once had to clean up a box of post mix syrup which, cost aside, was a bloody horrible job, and having seen what it did to the floor and the hairs on my hands (any one looking for an alternative to immac?) made me glad I don't drink the stuff.

Try dipping your hands in stomach acid.

Which do you think would be worse 😉