What makes a good pub?

tshehan

Hello,

My brother is considering starting an Irish themed pub/microbrewery and I was curious what made a good pub?

Thanks,

Trey Shehan

Mr E

Good air conditioning. Nothing worse than an excessively smoky pub.

- Dave.

regi

Well, pubs are different things to different folks! If you are making an irish-themed pub, and you'd want irish people feel at home, teach the barmen to pour a proper pint of guinness

If you want to go for something maybe a little more kitschy, try someone like these guys

Things you'll find in a proper irish pub

- Guinness
- Tayto crisps
- people smoking major/john player blue
- awful music
- a somewhat sad and angry drunken middle-aged man

Seeing as this board is an irish run forum (in ireland), you'll get the real opinions here :-)

mm.ie

I know a man who builds Irish Pubs. Not yer plastic paddy guinness/Murphys McDonalds style pubs now, but genuine hard as yer ass Irish emporiums.....

Anyway he says what is needed to make a really good Irish Pub is..........Irish Staff!!!

Mr.Applepie

I agree with what regi said bar No good damn cheesy music! If want traditional music get a proper band to play not a horrible cd.

Good pints although thats getting harder to find nowadays:(

mm.ie

Good pints although thats getting harder to find nowadays.....

I am a guinness drinker.

Thats not really true........in the 60's there was an art in it....now however its all a bit like milk.....open the carton and pour.

I mean everything from the cool room to the taps are controlled now by the brewery..

there is NO excuse for a bad pint.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Paddy-Joe is into the local every morning at 12:30, drinks for about 4 hours, falls asleep and drools on himself for a few, wakes up , has a few pints and goes home. If Paddy-Joe and his ilk were not welcome then really it wouldn't be a proper Irish pub IMHO.

pickarooney

Sure what would Irish people know about Irish pubs? don't they all drink in Spy and Zanzivar nowadays?

scojones

you need EXCELLENT guinness. Good guinness will not do!
Tayto chrisps.
Pistachio Nuts.
Some foreign beer like Grolsch and Warsteiner. Erdinger too!
And the old reliables, bud, heineken, miller, carling...
Prices also make a good pub. Guinness @ €3.00!!!!

I'm kinda partial to Hogans, up on Georges Street, in Dublin. Its nice and relaxing. But if i'm out for the night, i love those bars like Turks head, The Q Bar. (its been a while since i lived in Dublin, so i'm a bit out of the loop).

Traditional Irish bars have a tendacy to be morbid little places, a bit like funerals. Of course there are exceptions, but the majority i've been in tend to be a atmosphere killer.

Regardless, whatever type u build, there'll be people of that mindset that'll go.