Just a point regarding costs - all the money saved by drinking in outlets with cheap beer can go towards the cost of your season ticket (or gate money) - good for the Rhinos in the end! It's a matter of common sense. Speaking as a pensioner without money to burn, these pubs are the only ones i which I personally can afford to drink. Read more at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_D_Wetherspoon

Just a point regarding costs - all the money saved by drinking in outlets with cheap beer can go towards the cost of your season ticket (or gate money) - good for the Rhinos in the end! It's a matter of common sense. Speaking as a pensioner without money to burn, these pubs are the only ones i which I personally can afford to drink. Read more at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_D_Wetherspoon

With reference to CAMRA, yes I have a beard - (they're popular these days) and I wear sandals on the beach if and when I can afford a holiday. Reason for joining is again a matter of economics - Annual Membership (over-60s) = £18.50 Saving via beer vouchers = £20 - Simples! Another thirty bob to go towards my ticket! ref: www.camra.org.uk/JDWVOUCHERS

With reference to CAMRA, yes I have a beard - (they're popular these days) and I wear sandals on the beach if and when I can afford a holiday. Reason for joining is again a matter of economics - Annual Membership (over-60s) = £18.50 Saving via beer vouchers = £20 - Simples! Another thirty bob to go towards my ticket! ref: www.camra.org.uk/JDWVOUCHERS

Thanks for the sales pitch old chap

Being unable to drink alcohol in any more than tiny quantities you could describe me as not having any more than a passing acquaintance (correct spelling) with the brand.

The branch that I mentioned was not in Leeds and if my mate who has worked in the labs of two of our regions largest brewers since he was 16 years old (now 57) and who left the business just one grade beneath his master brewers certificate (notoriously hard to achieve) says a pint is "off" then I'd go along with his recommendation and not that of a bar staff who just shrugs his shoulders and then pours another pint of the same from the same pump.



Twelve pints they sent back that night and no-one thought to send the manager across for a conversation.

My coke was just fine though, never had a bad pint.

OMG you drink Coke

Some people push it up their nose, seems like a strange thing to do to me, I pour it down my throat by the pint. In the 1960s it was popular around the Uni campus to wear t-shirts with a "Legalize Coke" logo which I always found rather strange because my mother never had any problems buying it in Asda in sufficient quantities for me.

For those of you who love Coke... Just when you thought you knew everything....

To clean a toilet:
Pour a can into the toilet bowl. Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean.

To clean corrosion from car battery terminals:
Pour a can of over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

To loosen a rusted bolt:
Applying a soaked cloth to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

To bake a moist ham:
Empty a can into the baking pan; Wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix for a sumptuous brown gravy.

To remove grease from clothes:
Empty a can into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

AND YOU DRINK THIS STUFF!

My pleasure old chap - could be your pleasure too...

Yup, mainly because pubs still haven't come to terms with the fact that a good percentage of their customers don't want, or can't drink anything with alcohol in it, their answer being a fizzy drink of some description or a bottle of chemicals that taste like a fruit juice.

Wetherspoons are actually quite good in the provision of non-alcoholic drinks in that they will serve half decent coffee right through the day and night, I just can't manage three pints of black coffee thats all.

Other pubs simply don't want to know - my local for instance stops serving food at 9pm and so stops serving coffee too, they do have a very tantalizing range of two fizzy drinks and two flavours of J2O to offer though - cretins.

In reply to Jerry:
Touche on spelling - you're right - acquaintances of mine make similar mistakes


Pity to condemn a vary successful company on the strength of a single visit, though, and on hearsay evidence at that.
Your ex- brewing trade chum may well have been right - bad barrels do occasionally get through. However a request to change the pints for another of the many beers on sale would have solved the problem better than reverting to Lager!
That's almost as poisonous as Coke!

It was worth the night out just to watch him trying to drink lager which in his workplace was always not so much a brewing process but just a case of mixing ingredients and chemically cleaning it a few days later especially in the build up to christmas when the supermarkets would turn the screws on the brewers to get millions of cases of cheap lager into the warehouses

I also hear you need a HazMat licence to transport it

Saying that though you're stomach is full of Hydrochloric acid and you could probably clean a bog or loosen a bolt with that stuff too.

I've probably had far more bad pints of coke than beer, eg when the gas cyliner is out, or the nozzel is on too far and its too strong, or too weak, or when coke and diet coke are mixed up

Same thing could be said about vinegar, wine or most things which are quite acidic

Heaven forbid that they ever serve me Diet Coke by mistake, its bad enough when you ask for Coke and they say "Its Cola is that OK" which translates to "Its not a brand that you'll ever have heard of but we'll charge you £3 for this shoite anyway"

And then of course,

"Would you like a load of ice with that so we don't have to put so much of this cheap fizzy syrup drink in the glass and can make EVEN MORE profit ?"

Thats the most annoying part. I once got chatting to a guy who worked at subway, and the average cup of postmix cola costs about 5p to the retailler.

To pay almost £3 for a glass is ridiculous

Its is, but keeps the world turning.

Landlords would see epic increased profits if their punters swapped to pints of post mix cola.

Can someone remind me how much is a pint of coke (of any description) in a pub?
How much of that is excise duty?
& you complain about pubs profiteering?
PS like Co'J I'm a fully paid up sandal wearing (only in the summer months) pensioner with a beard who's a fully paid up CAMRA member.
PS Co'J I only pay £15.50 for my annual CAMRA membership.

Oops - a slip of the memory - it is only £15.50 for over-60s membership of course - even better. That would buy you another 3 pints from Wetherspoons

I used to have a copy of the 1978 CAMRA Good Pub Guide that we used as a bible in that year, it had about three pubs in Leeds in it & most of our touring weekends were spent around Bradford (which had dozens), Keighley and Halifax which were both well represented.

Then I got moved up to Newcastle and had to forget all about good beer for eight years...

Somehow labs and real ale don't seem to go together - and most large breweries have forgotten how to brew real ale. I certainly have enjoyed some excellent real beer in Wetherspoons over the years.

i'm currently working in the area of sam smiths where real ale is still brewed in traditional slate squares. not really a drinker but the smells lovely!

Even the micro brewers have to get the chemistry bit together or you end up poisoning your clients - my mate has since been shortlisted for two small independant ale brewery jobs simply for that reason, its a chemists job when all is said and done which doesn't mean that you are brewing from artificial ingredients and chemicals, but it does mean that you are carefully controlling the brew constantly with the eye of a scientist - its not home brew.

you should work at our place. only two girls in the lab checking stock. we have only highly qualified brewers and organic products. everything is traditionally done.
compare it to john smiths over the road and that place is one big lab. there beer is all chemicals and water

And if anyone wants a cracking boozer to visit, may I suggest Kirkstall Bridge pub. Fantastic pub run by Kirkstall Brewery