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Carling at 20 cans for a tenner, if you want your beer brewed with broken biscuits and old bus tickets then be my guest.

 

I prefer my beer with a bit of flavour. Sheffield has some wonderful micro breweries that produce beer not Eurofizz!! These Micros are constantly winning national awards for the quality of the beers that they produce

 

Have a go on Bradfield Farmers Blonde or Abbeydale moonshine, then come back to me and say that they are expensive. Makes the fizzy yellow wife beater stuff look rubbish

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As a non smoker, the fag smoking ban has hurt many boozers, coupled with dear ale and cheap supermarket booze, well you can see the result. Closing pubs.

 

Regards

 

Angel.

 

Who cares if pubs close through lack of trade? Surely that means there are still plenty of pubs for those who want to use them. Have you noticed that nearly all the temperance bars have shut? I think it happened a while before the smoking ban came along. It seems to have coincided with the time that pop started to be sold in supermarkets.

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Proper good old pubs are nothing to do with the price of supermarket drink.

The old 'local' was just that, a place where the locals could meet and have a chinwag, and on some nights, a good drink if they wanted.

All this used to be presided over by the Landlord and Lady.

And great people they were.

 

All we have these days are drinking warehouses, with managers that change every day, and have no idea of how to make a pub.

I have not been in a drinking warehouse for more than three years, but can guarantee that if I did, I would still find the same people as I left there.

 

The grand days of the landlord are long forgotten, and it is a shame.

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All we have these days are drinking warehouses, with managers that change every day, and have no idea of how to make a pub.

I have not been in a drinking warehouse for more than three years, but can guarantee that if I did, I would still find the same people as I left there.

 

The grand days of the landlord are long forgotten, and it is a shame.

 

No we don't. As has been pointed out nowadays we have some cracking pubs, selling extensive ranges of hand pulled ales at reasonable prices. If people choose not to go to those places then it's their bad luck.

 

As for supermarket prices.....well sure, if the only reason to drink is to get pished as cheaply as possible then supermarkets may have an impact...but surely most normal people go to pubs to meet their friends and socialise, not just to get ****faced

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No we don't. As has been pointed out nowadays we have some cracking pubs, selling extensive ranges of hand pulled ales at reasonable prices. If people choose not to go to those places then it's their bad luck.

 

As for supermarket prices.....well sure, if the only reason to drink is to get pished as cheaply as possible then supermarkets may have an impact...but surely most normal people go to pubs to meet their friends and socialise, not just to get ****faced

 

Complete agreement.

I live in a (waitfor it) a connurbation of small villages.

Can you believe that, about 8 villages in about 20 sq miles.

We are now down to about 6 pubs in the entire area and non doing well.

 

One of the main reasons is this.

I am on here talking to electrons, rather than being down the pub.

I have an excuse, I am driving to Hull later, so must be reposed. :D

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20 cans of carling for only a tenner at asda,and people wonder why the good old fashioned pub is on its last legs,if the brewery's were as generous with publicans then maybe we wouldnt see so many decent pubs in sheffield closed down

 

Good pubs aren't on their last legs. Old fashioned ones may be. That's partly because they dont offer punters what they want any more. Adapt or die. Only the best ones will survive.

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Bar beer in America has become too expensive. 5 dollars plus for a a pint of beer and the American pint isn't even as big as the British pint.

 

Everybody complains about the price of a gallon of gas but beer prices keep creeping up and nobody says a word about it.

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Bar beer in America has become too expensive. 5 dollars plus for a a pint of beer and the American pint isn't even as big as the British pint.

 

Everybody complains about the price of a gallon of gas but beer prices keep creeping up and nobody says a word about it.

 

This might explain why Americans have taken homebrew to a different level

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This might explain why Americans have taken homebrew to a different level

 

The best American beers are those brewed by the micro breweries in small towns.

They're only sold in Sams Clubs

 

Aside from Samual Adams the big breweries dont turn out much that appeals to me

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