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

[Corky]

They tend to be beer for people who don't like beer.

However cask could still fit the definition, it doesn't always have to be keg. It should be cheaper being keg with all the preservatives too, as it will last a lot longer.

The best idea is to have the cask on draft and the "craft" in bottles as a compromise and not selling out.

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

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.

Living in Canada and Oz, they had some great porter style craft beers/lagers, which I got into (far better than drinking porter from a casket in the UK). Don’t seem to do it here in the UK, which is a gutter.

 

[roman totale]

Reckon his patch was 30,000 barrels of beer a year at the time.

That’s a region today.

So many clubs, full of working class people socialising together as part of the routine of their lives.

We’ve definitely lost something.

Some of the clubs I dealt with had literal tanks in the cellar. They held 5 barrels each, so 180 gallons and they would get through several tanks in a week. This is on top of a full trailer-load of barrels, cans, bottles etc each week. IIRC Lower Kersal Social was one of them. I can’t imagine that any club anywhere can justify having tanks nowadays.

 

[Stephen Ireland's pants]

Think a few on here are getting craft beer mixed up with real ale < cask >
Cask beer is not pretentious and not £7 pint

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Shouldn't they be called Working Person's Clubs ?

MAN and woMAN = MAN, as in huMAN.

 

[Bill Walker]

MAN and woMAN = MAN, as in huMAN.

Yes but there are people who are offended.

 

[roman totale]

my local wmc had a snooker room were women weren't allowed in.
imagine that nowadays.

There was a working-man’s place in Nelson, can’t recall the name, that as late as the end of the 90s, wouldn’t even allow a female cleaner through the door.

 

[quincunx]

Chocolate porter is proper nice!

agreed. chocolate is not a fruit.

Ironically most went bust as they were tied in to expensive shit beer from big brewing Co's. They sell it cheap to the members but end up running on a loss. Hence why they were such shit holes.

wasn't the point of them to not make a profit but to provide a place for socialising at an affordable rate, or have i got that wrong?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

We’ve definitely lost sosomething.

Gout?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

agreed. chocolate is not a fruit.


wasn't the point of them to not make a profit but to provide a place for socialising at an affordable rate, or have i got that wrong?

Yeah but you can't run on a loss! Someone had to do the books and you'd have a committee looking at the finances and deciding if they should put the price of the beer up or not.