Pubs with out of date beer barrels

[Jimk]

Who'sat then?

[Jimk]

Fsv of "beer" you mean? like "cough-tinental" larger & guinness (black larger)

[Jimk]

We call it "keg beer"....

[Jimk]

Lager liking, nouvelle ££ cuisine selling, gastro bollox amateurs IME & O

[Jimk]

Tits?

[Jimk]

Ah keg beer....yuck! Tho sterile until tapped iirc?

[Jimk]

Keg beer is not drunk by "beer enthusiasts"...

[Jimk]

"Beer tickers" There's a pub in Sheffield with an attached micro brewery. They name their beers after old steam locos, - same beers but each brew gets a different loco name so the tickers would come in & buy a half so they could tick it off.

Regulars just order "the weak shit", "medium shit" or "strong shit" as they prefer... :-)

[ARW]

Nice to see the breweries sticking on new best before dates on your out of date barrels.

[alan_m]

I've got some 1992 bottled beer under my stairs - however it is around

11% ABV (Courage Russian Stout). Two bottles I drank over the Christmas period were very nice :)

[alan_m]

Some of them may actually taste better with a longer conditioning period.

[Algernon Goss-Custard]

Bloody hell. I used to drink that in 1977. Didn't know you could still get it - even in 1992.

[spuorgelgoog]

In Cornwall:

Thousands of gallons of beer have been poured down the drain in Cornwall in the past week as pubs prepare to reopen.

It has been a challenge for South West Water, which has had to co-ordinate time slots for every pub to avoid overloading the system.

Mr Williams had to get rid of his beer on a Friday and a Monday, pouring 50 gallons each day. "It took over an hour to get rid of but it had to be done," he said. Staff at South West Water said they had to make sure only small amounts of beer were released into the system on any one day. Andrew Rowntree, from the utility company, said beer took a lot of oxygen to break down - oxygen which was vital to the way water treatment plants worked. If the treatment process gets hit with a lot of beer, then the bacteria within our system has a 'bad night out', and it doesn't do any good at all. It can completely kill our sewage treatment processes."

Owain

[Custos Custodum]

Coming soon to a Wetherspoons near you.

[alan_m]

But was it in casks that had already been opened and just left for the duration due to the pub being closed. Anything that has been opened is likely to be completely undrinkable at this time.

I guess that some pubs on day one of the lock-down just shut their doors and no cellar work has taken place until recently.

Some other pubs ran a take-away service and sold off what was in opened casks relatively quickly, I'm aware of pubs with a brewery still supplying selling take-away beer in a box for the duration of the pub lock-out but the managers probably had the foresight to order the necessary supplies of take-away containers in time.

[PeterC]

Pub teneant in the village told me that there were 55 million pints across the UK; about a week later his mother, who runs the pub in the next village, said 72 million! Apparently it's being disposed of locally because the delivery lorries can't load the 'barrels' - drop and bounce doesn't work well in reverse - and it's too expensive and complicated to hire lorries. Marstons is reimbursing pubs for the wasted beer; I don't know what Wells is doing re. rent, but it has a poor reputation as a pubco.

[alan_m]

Don't they now have to first recruit more staff and train them - it will take them all of 5 minutes to train a cellar-man how to keep beer in good condition

[Scott]

There was a girl at my school who used to add a small amount of whisky to the goldfish bowl if she thought the goldfish was depressed.

[spuorgelgoog]

I thought that most if not all were emptying as quickly as possible after lockdown for insurance requirements.

Or perhaps all those signs "all stock removed from premises" are not all true.

In Edinburgh empty houses sometimes have "all fireplaces removed from premises" signs.

Owain

[spuorgelgoog]

That's wrong in so many ways, but what a delightful thought.

Owain