Wetherspoons Real Ale festival

[staffsblue]

Real ale is supped by beady eyed bearded types who waffle on about shit like morris dancing and narrow boat restoration. I won't be drinking any lukewarm sweaty sock water.

Bit of a stereotype viewpoint. I've been drinking real ale since legal drinking age. I'm clean shaven, have quite normal eyes and have no interest in either morris dancing or canal boat restoration.
I love drinking beer at cellar temperature, love to be able to taste the ingredients and have no interest in mass produced fizzy chemical filled crap.
Saying that, I wouldn't be seen dead in a Wetherspoons, much rather spending my money supporting a local small independent business.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Going in Harbord Harbord next Sunday to try some of these.

 

[manclad]

Going in Harbord Harbord next Sunday to try some of these.

My Dad used to tell me that the Harbord Harbord building used to be a Burtons (50 bob) tailor back in the 1950s.
I only remember it being Woolworths in the 1960s , until they moved into The Arndale Centre in 1971 and became known as Woolco .

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Bit of a stereotype viewpoint. I've been drinking real ale since legal drinking age. I'm clean shaven, have quite normal eyes and have no interest in either morris dancing or canal boat restoration.
I love drinking beer at cellar temperature, love to be able to taste the ingredients and have no interest in mass produced fizzy chemical filled crap.
Saying that, I wouldn't be seen dead in a Wetherspoons, much rather spending my money supporting a local small independent business.

I was joking btw. Hope you're not a paranoid cross-eyed ginge; )

 

[staffsblue]

I was joking btw. Hope you're not a paranoid cross-eyed ginge; )

Definitely not!

 

[Stephen Ireland's pants]

Bit of a stereotype viewpoint. I've been drinking real ale since legal drinking age. I'm clean shaven, have quite normal eyes and have no interest in either morris dancing or canal boat restoration.
I love drinking beer at cellar temperature, love to be able to taste the ingredients and have no interest in mass produced fizzy chemical filled crap.
Saying that, I wouldn't be seen dead in a Wetherspoons, much rather spending my money supporting a local small independent business.

I wish I had started drinking ale at a younger age . I wasted my youth drinking Stella. Wetherspoons is one of the reasons I now drink ale . Never had it in most of the pubs I went as a youth and if they did i was blinkered. As much as I like pubs I don't like paying close to a fiver for a pint especially if its sub standard. I would imagine some of the smaller independent breweries wouldn't exist without a Wetherspoons contract. I like a pint of robinsons trooper or unicorn but I ain't going to give them £4 for one .

 

[staffsblue]

I wish I had started drinking ale at a younger age . I wasted my youth drinking Stella. Wetherspoons is one of the reasons I now drink ale . Never had it in most of the pubs I went as a youth and if they did i was blinkered. As much as I like pubs I don't like paying close to a fiver for a pint especially if its sub standard. I would imagine some of the smaller independent breweries wouldn't exist without a Wetherspoons contract. I like a pint of robinsons trooper or unicorn but I ain't going to give them £4 for one .

Yeah, I understand the appeal of Spoons, and how it has encouraged people to try different beers.
However, personally I'd rather spend a little more drinking in my two local micropubs owned by same local young businessman in his early 20s.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Yeah, I understand the appeal of Spoons, and how it has encouraged people to try different beers.
However, personally I'd rather spend a little more drinking in my two local micropubs owned by same local young businessman in his early 20s.

People who stereotype real ale drinkers don’t know the variety that is out there today. An ale can be as light as the lightest lager and darker than any pilsner.

All beers have their place. I’ll have a lager in the summer, but the variety of ale on offer these days makes it far more enjoyable to try as many as possible.

At some point in your late 20s/early 30s, you start to drink because you enjoy the taste, rather than necking 8 pints of Stella and get steaming as soon as possible.

I try to stay out of spoons as a rule, but if the only alternative is generic lager, then spoons it will be.

Microbreweries are my favourite though.

 

[DTKOAG]

Slovenian Pale Ale FFS..

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Slovenian Pale Ale FFS..

It’ll be far better than Carling.