Pub Openings / Refurbs / Closing Thread - Mod Note Post #1

snowblind

rubadub wrote: »

they have their own website, facebook, instagram & twitter and nowhere can you see a fecking list of drinks, let alone prices. WTF is wrong with these businesses, loads of photos up too, this is the one of the bar, you'd swear it's done on purpose



There was a new camile thai takeaway open near me, again loads of photos, and a video of some girl juggling, you can barely see but there was a sign behind her saying there was some lunch special, but no sign of what it was anywhere else.

Idiots...

I can see Cute Hoor. That my expectations set, set very low indeed....

Intrigued about Underdog. Hope they share what they'll have on the taps!

BeerNut

snowblind wrote: »

Hope they share what they'll have on the taps!

They'd better! The plan, at least initially, is to have no permanent beers in the line-up.

rubadub

snowblind wrote: »

Intrigued about Underdog. Hope they share what they'll have on the taps!

With facebook & instagram there is no excuse, websites might cost money to update as they might be run by a third party.

Imagine a restaurant having a website and not thinking of putting the menu up.

I think wetherspoons do not have all them readily available as they charge different prices in different pubs and have seen backlash online, but they could still take photos of the taps and fridges. But spoons do have some prices/offers showing up on facebook.

BeerNut

rubadub wrote: »

Imagine a restaurant having a website and not thinking of putting the menu up.

Restaurants are aware that their main product is the food. Almost every Irish pub, including almost every beer specialist, regards the pub as the product and the beer as incidental. You're there to go to the pub, not to drink something specific, hence there's no need to know in advance what's on. It's probably justifiable too: from sitting at the bar long enough I'd say the number of punters who care about the specifics of the beer is negligible.

But Underdog will be different *cough*.

snowblind

BeerNut wrote: »

Restaurants are aware that their main product is the food. Almost every Irish pub, including almost every beer specialist, regards the pub as the product and the beer as incidental. You're there to go to the pub, not to drink something specific, hence there's no need to know in advance what's on. It's probably justifiable too: from sitting at the bar long enough I'd say the number of punters who care about the specifics of the beer is negligible.

But Underdog will be different *cough*.

Yea hopefully Underdog will be the first proper craft beer bar in Dublin. Not gonna even try and quantify what I mean by 'proper' except that no fluff on the list, no food until you're gonna do it well. A taproom rather than a pub, if you will.

Planning a west coast trip to the states, most of the tap lists are live and contain serving size, pricing, even an indicator of how much is left of the beer. That's the dream but will probably take a while till we see that here.

BeerNut

snowblind wrote: »

That's the dream

My dream is just a photo of the blackboard/taps at the beginning of each day's service, but nobody has even managed that yet :mad:

snowblind

BeerNut wrote: »

My dream is just a photo of the blackboard/taps at the beginning of each day's service, but nobody has even managed that yet :mad:

There are a lot of good live tap list tools out there, like http://digitalpour.com/#the-menu

But I would even be happy with what you suggested!

rubadub

BeerNut wrote: »

You're there to go to the pub, not to drink something specific, hence there's no need to know in advance what's on. It's probably justifiable too: from sitting at the bar long enough I'd say the number of punters who care about the specifics of the beer is negligible.

Since the rise of craft beer pubs it has become very important to several people I know. It's not that they want some rare craft beer, rather they refuse to go to pubs without guinness or heineken, or will go "for one" on the agreement they/we leave to go elsewhere.

Their instagram/facebook has plenty of photos, some of interest, some of presumably very little interest. Fact is it costs nothing to host them, and though only some might have an interest I reckon a higher % of people visiting the page would like to see a nice visible photo of the taps or fridge, rather than a tree or building site & cement mixer out the back (which is what they have). How it doesn't even cross their mind really amazes me.

BeerNut

rubadub wrote: »

How it doesn't even cross their mind really amazes me.

And when they do remember to tweet about the football, the live music or the pitcher discounts instead: :mad::mad::mad:

the beer revolu

BeerNut wrote: »

My dream is just a photo of the blackboard/taps at the beginning of each day's service, but nobody has even managed that yet :mad:

Bierhaus in Cork has an untapped page with all their draught offerings, serving sizes, abv, and prices. It also shows what's coming up on draught. I think it has all their bottles too. And it is actually kept updated.
They also tweet pics of their updated blackboards regularly.

Abbots ale house have also gotten much better at tweeting new draught tappings.

ThisRegard

ciaran76 wrote: »

Not a pub but an O'Briens (Superstore)Off Licence in Blanchardstown.

Popped in to have a look and walked out after a 5 min look around.
Great wine selection it seems and not bad for spirits either but beer selection is terrible.

Yeah, went in the other week and so far the place is a giant waste of space. By that I mean the interior is so big compared to the amount of product in it. The beer selection was disgracefully poor, I think the small one in the centre was better.

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that they're still getting it up and running.

Zaph

I dropped in to have a look today. Not much there that you couldn't get in SuperValu tbh and I left without buying anything. Seems like a huge missed opportunity to give Molloy's a bit of competition.

ThisRegard

Same here, picked up nothing.

BeerNut

Passenger wrote: »

Official opening 5pm Thursday 29th June.

Postponed to Tuesday 4th July

Liamo08

Decent write up about Underdog here https://www.thesun.ie/living/1204572/dublins-newest-craft-beer-establishment-is-no-underdog/ sounds like they'll have the tap listing displayed on TV screens which would be cool.

Losty Dublin

Sounds good. Like the idea of Cask Friday

oblivious

Losty Dublin wrote:

Sounds good. Like the idea of Cask Friday

As long as it's not vented on a Thursday night

BeerNut

Galway Bay's The Wickham Tap opens today.

Also, there's a new pop-up on Marlborough Street in Dublin called Piper's Corner.

L1011

That pubs been closed for ages - if this is a pop-up does anyone know the long term plan?

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

looks like it's more than a "pop-up" going by the photos of builders etc inside.

Is it the Flowing Tide?

Buckfast W

Rowan Dead Salmonella wrote:

looks like it's more than a "pop-up" going by the photos of builders etc inside.

Rowan Dead Salmonella wrote:

Is it the Flowing Tide?

I reckon it's Sean O'Caseys

BeerNut

Buckfast W wrote: »

I reckon it's Sean O'Caseys

It is.

L1011

Flowing Tide is still open! OCaseys always had an active licence when shut so we'll suited to this sort of use but you wouldn't do major building work for temp use

L1011

Google finds me an SBP article from February behind the paywall (that was either in the daily edition, or I missed it as I buy the paper every week) saying that the intended name for where Pipers Corner is going is to be The Rosie Hackett. Can only assume the refit is for that and the "popup" is short-term before a full launch?

Anyway, any new opening/reopening of somewhere I haven't been makes me antsy about completion (:pac:) so I'll need to wander in when its open.

Buckfast W

L1011 wrote:

Google finds me an SBP article from February behind the paywall (that was either in the daily edition, or I missed it as I buy the paper every week) saying that the intended name for where Pipers Corner is going is to be The Rosie Hackett. Can only assume the refit is for that and the "popup" is short-term before a full launch?

The piper's corner (sean o caseys) opened today at 4pm, from what I've heard it's not a pop up it's permanent

beertons

Pmac's taking over Bolands in Stillorgan.

Correcting an earlier comment on who I said was moving in.

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

beertons wrote: »

Pmac's taking over Bolands in Stillorgan.

Correcting an earlier comment on who I said was moving in.

nice little empire they are building up.

beertons

Rowan Dead Salmonella wrote: »

nice little empire they are building up.

What other pubs do they have?

matrim

beertons wrote: »

What other pubs do they have?

Cassidys is the only other one I can think

beertons

The rathmines inn? Or what ever it's called now.