Should Craft Beer be sold in Working men's clubs?

Crouchinho said:
Isn't Wychwood Brewery cosidered a craft? The English make some of the best ciders, gins and ales in the world. I would never complain if there was an alternative for a small company at an extra price. When the macros cut corners with addiditives and sucrose shite everyone will be accustomed to garbage
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Been a while since you were in a working men’s club I guess? They most definitely would complain if there was a pricier drink being offered. Bearing in mind anything over £2.80 is considered expensive! Haha!
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
To be fair in a lot of Burnley and East lancashire pubs and clubs they sell Moorhouses ale, as the brewery is local to East lancs in Burnley.

It's classed as a craft beer. But I get the point and agree, craft beer is normally way overpriced dish water, drunk by the green wellie brigade.

Mind you I was in the Crown and Anchor Exchange Square last weekend and had a fair few pints of mixed (mild and bitter) brewed by Joseph Holts, and it was a mighty fine drop of ale too.
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It's the only way to get a palatable pint of Holt's and all Holt's pubs are used to serving mix. I've yet to find a way to make JW lees an acceptable pint though.
 
Try a craft beer called Vocation Love and Hate. A heavenly 7%.

Get you and you’re miserable, John smiths drinking mates pissed on that and then say it shouldn’t be sold.
 
TinFoilHat said:
A **** I drink with has said that traditional working men's clubs should have a craft beer option.

I've argued against it saying craft beer is expensive piss for pretentious twats.

After a quick survey in the club I'm currently in, the majority agree with me.

Thoughts?
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The owner of a very well known East Midlands brewery (you will almost certainly know of him) said to me few years back that IPA craft beer was basically keg ale with a few more hops in it.

He’s essentially right.

Despite my posh **** online persona, I’ll hazard I’ve been to more working men’s club than 99% of the members of this site.

Got to be well over a hundred. Some of them absolutely delightful; others, rough as fuck.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
The owner of a very well known East Midlands brewery (you will almost certainly know of him) said to me few years back that IPA craft beer was basically keg ale with a few more hops in it.

He’s essentially right.

Despite my posh **** online persona, I’ll hazard I’ve been to more working men’s club than 99% of the members of this site.

Got to be well over a hundred. Some of them absolutely delightful; others, rough as fuck.
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You are right about the hops. Not sure why the craft beer cunts think a pint needs to have fruit or chocolate in it either tbh
 
Wasn't Craft Beer a reaction in the USA to the overbearing crapness of the big American brewers - Coors, Bud, Molson etc?
The idea being to get more flavour and indeed alcohol into the beer?
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
The owner of a very well known East Midlands brewery (you will almost certainly know of him) said to me few years back that IPA craft beer was basically keg ale with a few more hops in it.

He’s essentially right.

Despite my posh **** online persona, I’ll hazard I’ve been to more working men’s club than 99% of the members of this site.

Got to be well over a hundred. Some of them absolutely delightful; others, rough as fuck.
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I spent every Sunday in The Hebers in Middleton as a kid after being dragged in by my old man.
Gave me a certain appreciation for the world at a very young age. Some great blokes with great stories.
 
Back in the day when I lived with my Mum and Dad and I was paying around £1.30 for a pint of lager in the pub, my Dad told me they had a promotion on Heineken in "the club" at 89p whilst stocks last. This was around November and it was expected that it'd be gone by Christmas, but the regs carried on drinking what they always drank and they still had it left in March

Rolling the clock forward a little and they brought this new German beer in called Becks, again on promotion at £1 a pint
My Dad drank around five pints on a Saturday night and pretty much collapsed at home
The beer was eventually taken off sale as it was too strong for the punters
 
Phil1 said:
I spent every Sunday in The Hebers in Middleton as a kid after being dragged in by my old man.
Gave me a certain appreciation for the world at a very young age. Some great blokes with great stories.
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I knew the guy that covered Middleton for Whitbread in the early ‘90s. Former public school boy! Middleton and Prestwich was his area. Lots of social clubs on that patch. Good rep he was too. Punters loved him. Think he does the same job for a regional now.
 
City Hobgoblin said:
It's all about increasing the variety of flavours? Personally can't stand grapefruit beer, for example. Chocolate Stout on the other hand is a winner.
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Yes, I like some of the dark beers generally, but the craft market seems to be nearly all IPA (hippy/gassy) with bloody fruit in it.
 
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