Bloody Breweries

[ColinW]

Don't want to worry you but it can, and probably will, get worse. In the north west all of the small breweries were bought up long ago by a handful of major ones. Now the major breweries have decided that they no longer want to run pubs and have sold them all to "pub companies". This has resulted in the worst possible situation for the drinker. The pub is run by some poor sod who has spent his life savings on a lease. He is tied to buying all his stock via the pub company, at a massively inflated price dictated by the whim of some 22 year old accountant in the pubco head office. Net result - no choice of beer, whopping price hikes and a new landlord every year as each new one goes bankrupt.


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[rwoofer]

Re: Then move a little to the west....

The Osborne View pub mentioned above is actually a Hall & Woodhouse pub. Always enjoyed a good Tanglefoot there, but sadly no more.

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[Andrew_Fanner]

Re: Then move a little to the west....

Local pub is unworthy of the name, but apparently its a good place for a fight. But a couple of miles away is rural Hampshire and Gales brewery...

Or travel down to Pompey, there are still proper pubs in the backstreets. Oakleaf Brewery in Gosport, visit The Clarence, about 10 mins walk from the ferry. Proper beer made and served properly. The head brewer/owner of the brewery is an artist (and degenerate drunk/chill addict, sorry Ed) in beer.

<hr width=100% size=1>Two beers please, my friend is paying.