Man your pumps, Wetherspoons are coming

Herb Powell

L1011 wrote: »

Tim Martin's reason for not having them was pretty good - he fidgets with them and tears them up (and knows that others do too) and knows the extra cleaning work required as a result!

Pretty essential on a shiny table though.

That's one thing I absolutely hate, and I have a few friends who do it. People doing that in my pub would be barred (or given a warning, but you know what I mean).

irish_goat

Herb Powell wrote: »

That's one thing I absolutely hate, and I have a few friends who do it. People doing that in my pub would be barred (or given a warning, but you know what I mean).

'Round up and shot' not an option?

L1011

I wonder does Tim Martin take every suggestion seriously - there's a large licenced premises near me that has failed in its last two attempts to be a "classy" overpriced skang-magnet nightclub that's about the right size for a 'Spoons and Maynooth could definitely do with some price competition.

Chelon

Always thought beer mats would come free gratis from the breweries?

BeerNut

They don't offer to sweep up the bits at the end of the night, though.

oblivious

Chelon wrote: »

Always thought beer mats would come free gratis from the breweries?

The way witherspoons sweat their suppliers, I don't they get much free

D Trent

The great wood FB page just put this up

MonkstownHoop

D Trent wrote: »

The great wood FB page just put this up

Festival ales were €2.75 in Dun Laoghaire yesterday

vandriver

Kat1170 wrote: »

If served on ice, is should go down nicely

Well I'll thank this rather good joke!

Chelon

D Trent wrote: »

The great wood FB page just put this up

Beautiful

BeerNut

11 festival beers on in Blackrock today, €2.50 a pint. Dún Laoghaire had one, for €2.75.

syklops

L1011 wrote: »

Tim Martin's reason for not having them was pretty good - he fidgets with them and tears them up (and knows that others do too) and knows the extra cleaning work required as a result!

Pretty essential on a shiny table though.

I wouldnt miss beer mats. Half the time you pick up your pint and the beermat sticks to the bottom and then midway between the bar/table and your mouth the beermat leaps from the bottom and glides under the table.

Some fancier pubs Ive been in give these little ceramic saucers, which works much better but Ive never seen them in Ireland.

BeerNut

Update on Camden Street. The Corpo aren't happy that the number of hotel rooms is only 98, instead of 165 as in the original pre-Wetherspoon plan. They've asked "Why do you need such a big bar space?" and presumably want a different answer to "Because we're Wetherspoon's; it's what we do. Duh!"

L1011

Corpo is under pressure to allow as much hotel building as possible so "losing" 67 from a plan that was likely never happening is something they'll resist.

BeerNut

It's a bit of a game of chicken, though, isn't it? If the Council says "165 or nothing" and Wetherspoon says, "OK: nothing it is" the space isn't reasonably going to be developed sympathetically by anyone else, is it?

Simon2015

BeerNut wrote: »

Update on Camden Street. The Corpo aren't happy that the number of hotel rooms is only 98, instead of 165 as in the original pre-Wetherspoon plan. They've asked "Why do you need such a big bar space?" and presumably want a different answer to "Because we're Wetherspoon's; it's what we do. Duh!"

A few brown envelopes should sort out this problem:pac:

fjon

D Trent wrote: »

The great wood FB page just put this up

Got 3 half-pints for €2.75 there today - Boltmaker, Thunder Road Pacific and Greene's Benjamin. As far as I can tell they have 6 of the festival beers on tap, and will change them as soon as the barrels are empty. The others were Trooper 666, Brouwerij ’T Ij Amsterdam Blonde, Blacksheep Bighorn.
I really can't complain for that price, you can try a lot of new and unique beers for very little!
Other than the beers my lunch was terrible as usual

MonkstownHoop

fjon wrote: »

Got 3 half-pints for €2.75 there today - Boltmaker, Thunder Road Pacific and Greene's Benjamin. As far as I can tell they have 6 of the festival beers on tap, and will change them as soon as the barrels are empty. The others were Trooper 666, Brouwerij ’T Ij Amsterdam Blonde, Blacksheep Bighorn.
I really can't complain for that price, you can try a lot of new and unique beers for very little!
Other than the beers my lunch was terrible as usual

What you think of Benjamin?

fjon

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

What you think of Benjamin?

A bit too weird for my taste. I don't think all the flavours really work all that well together.

irish_goat

Had the Festival O'Hara's Irish Red. Not a patch on regular O'Hara's Red.

BeerNut

Chuppa Siopa wrote: »

Devils Backbone on draft. Kinnegar really do great stuff!

Wrong thread?

Chuppa Siopa

BeerNut wrote: »

Wrong thread?

Yep :eek:

Reputable Rog

Was in The Linen Weaver today, lots of cask advertised, very little available.
Ended up having a Barnsley bitter and a Caledonian Vienna Red.
Noticed that prices have shot up, €4.50 for a fosters ( around €3.50 normally around town), Beamish is now €3.75 and Corvus is gone.
Interestingly they now have Heineken and Budweiser on tap both imported with the Heineken @5%.
Some craft bottles over €6 a bottle, Rebel Red now also on draught.
Non festival ales €2.75.

irish_goat

Is the cider festival on for you'se? Starts today in Derry anyway, might take a run up later. Hoping some of the more unusual ones make it here.

BeerNut

irish_goat wrote: »

Is the cider festival on for you'se?

Yep. JDW Ireland hasn't missed a festival yet.

https://twitter.com/Forty_Foot/status/616190357106237440

irish_goat

Had Red Hen and Fruit Bat cider yesterday. Red Hen was nice, standard kind of English cider whilst the Fruit Bat tasted like alcoholic Ribena (in a kind of good way).
€1.95 is a great price too. They're charging £2.25 up here (which is 60p more than the real ale).

Ageyev

The expansion is on hold - http://www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/wetherspoon-irish-expansion-on-hold-due-to-property-prices-1.2720091#utm_sguid=137756,1b49c724-67bb-d297-4083-103e964532a6

L1011

Those underway will complete is what I'm seeing from that. Bit harder to buy when the Sterling you were buying with takes a immediate hammering due to something you're partially responsible for!

Ronan|Raven

irish_goat wrote: »

Had Red Hen and Fruit Bat cider yesterday. Red Hen was nice, standard kind of English cider whilst the Fruit Bat tasted like alcoholic Ribena (in a kind of good way).
€1.95 is a great price too. They're charging £2.25 up here (which is 60p more than the real ale).

2.95 in Blackrock for the festival ciders.

hatrickpatrick

Uh oh... Wetherspoons Dun Laoghaire to launch a new menu on September 7th - does this herald another round of price increases?

They'd better not touch their €2.75 ales I tell ya!

https://www.facebook.com/thefortyfoot/posts/850491371748973