Wetherspoon

[Stephen230]

Some of the photos on here have reminded me of a by product of Wetherspoons policy of looking to buy their buildings outright, how many wonderful old buildings, often cinemas and theatres, they've acquired and no doubt saved from the bulldozers at some point in the near future.

 

[SCEtoAUX]

Details please :)

Well you need a barrel to brew it in, some stuff to sanitise your kit, and a hydrometer to know when fermentaion is done, a thing to put caps on with and then some bottles That's all the kit you need, £50 assuming you can source bottles, which is hardly difficult.

The to make your brew you just need a kit which is basically a bag of wort, and some yeast. £16.00 will do it, plus you'll need a kilo of brewing sugar at £3.00. Call it another £3.00 for 40 caps and it costs £22.00 to make 45 bottles (22.5 litres), so about 50p/bottle.

Obviously you've had the initial outlay, but that gets used again and again.

Serious home brewers do it far better, and they are many ways you can spend more money, but I'm churning out perfectly decent ale for very little money, and it really is very simple.

 

[pride in battle]

Well you need a barrel to brew it in, some stuff to sanitise your kit, and a hydrometer to know when fermentaion is done, a thing to put caps on with and then some bottles That's all the kit you need, £50 assuming you can source bottles, which is hardly difficult.

The to make your brew you just need a kit which is basically a bag of wort, and some yeast. £16.00 will do it, plus you'll need a kilo of brewing sugar at £3.00. Call it another £3.00 for 40 caps and it costs £22.00 to make 45 bottles (22.5 litres), so about 50p/bottle.

Obviously you've had the initial outlay, but that gets used again and again.

Serious home brewers do it far better, and they are many ways you can spend more money, but I'm churning out perfectly decent ale for very little money, and it really is very simple.

Cheers mate, how long does it take ?

 

[Barcon]

Much as I like my local 'Spoons, and I'm in there at least four times per week, I've been making home brew lately. Absolute doddle, tastes just fine, costs around 50p/500ml bottle.

I used to do that when I lived with three mates. You would wait ages for it to be ready and then it would all get supped in one night.

 

[Grassland Blue]

Ive drank many a way past sell by date beer in my time with no after effects, in fact ive drank in many spoons over the years and never had this claimed common occurrence.

They are soulless places though.

Obviously you've never visited the Up Steps in Oldham........

 

[Grassland Blue]

Ahh, Spoons.

I frequent the Harbord Harbord quite often here in Middleton.

I go in for breakfast once a week. The same people sitting in the same spot. Most of them drinking from the minute go.

I go in for a few beers later on and the same people are sat at the same spot.

There’s a guy with no legs. Loves his carlsberg. A guy with a monocle who is in and out of the bookies all the time. A couple who do nothing but argue whenever they’re in.

Maybe once a month I go in around 1pm and I’ll have a few hours to myself just relaxing, drinking £3.75 Stella and people watching. It’s a fantastic place and the locals are in their own little world in there.

I don’t know what this community would do if it was ever to close.

Now to my gripe. The mixed grill has vanished!

As did the Sunday roast and steak night......

 

[Grassland Blue]

I used to call in the Yates on Portland Street, but I don't now .... the reason ? As you say the beer is crap, I can barely even finish a pint in there.

Hot blobs were the thing to have in Yates's once upon a time.

 

[hilts]

Obviously you've never visited the Up Steps in Oldham........

I've not had that pleasure no

 

[bladdered]

Some of the photos on here have reminded me of a by product of Wetherspoons policy of looking to buy their buildings outright, how many wonderful old buildings, often cinemas and theatres, they've acquired and no doubt saved from the bulldozers at some point in the near future.

Yes my local in Cleck used to be a bank and my other favourite nearby in Brighouse used to be a chapel.

They also did a fantastic job on an old school in Headingley near where I used to live which was derelict for years.

 

[.db.]

Said in another Wetherspoons thread in the last year, that the Wetherspoons in the Printworks does a better pint of Guinness than the Irish pub in the Printworks.

 

[Eaststander1]

Said in another Wetherspoons thread in the last year, that the Wetherspoons in the Printworks does a better pint of Guinness than the Irish pub in the Printworks.

For me the best pint of Guinness in Manchester isn't at any Wetherspoons, it's at the Station Pub in Didsbury Village .... despite the claims of the landlord at Mulligans in the city centre!

But I will compare the two pints mentioned in your post at the Printworks the next time i'm in there.

 

[Chris Holmes]

If you are ever in Exeter there is a spectacular Spoons there - The Imperial, it used to be an orangery.
Nice grounds too on a warm day, though can get get busy with students.

 

[SCEtoAUX]

I used to do that when I lived with three mates. You would wait ages for it to be ready and then it would all get supped in one night.

Well it's just me who drinks it, usually one bottle per day, occasionally two. It takes about ten days to ferment, and then two weeks to condition when bottled. I do one brew per month.