Allyall wrote: » If you like Irish pubs, there'll still be plenty of them, but unfortunately this may close a fair few of them down. On the other hand many of them deserve to be closed down, with their €5.65 pints of píss. 30 seems a bit much, but time will tell. I like my trad pubs, especially in the winter, heading down the Country, and on a cold wet night, going to the local, in the bar, near the fire, and a trad band are playing. Can't beat it. I heard these lot don't even play music? :eek: Is that true?
Mr Simpson wrote: » They're planning on opening 30 of them
fryup wrote: » i see no reason why wetherspoons can't open in ireland?? there's plenty of paddy pubs in the UK so can we not return the favour/gesture??
ScumLord wrote: » I've never seen a £2 breakfast, unless it's basically just a sausage samwidge. I've had the breakfast in witherspoons and it's certainly not the worst. I had a read of their own magazine at the time. They claim they buy direct from farms, with the size of them I'd believe it. Witherspoons have buying power and that would allow them to offer meals quite cheaply. I'm not saying it's great food but for the price of a mcdonalds meal you can get something pretty decent and fairly healthy in witherspoons.
dd972 wrote: » Imagine what a Wetherspoons on Eden Quay or Talbot St would be like! I'm sure such a company does their homework on catchment areas and clientele though.
Seaneh wrote: » Jeepers, only 3 in Athlone. Hadn't realised they'd dropped so much, 5-6 years ago pretty much every bar in town was a member.
LordSutch wrote: » Surely we sould welcome the likes of JDs with open arms precisely because they will be breaking the stranglehold of another large company, namely Diageo. I look forward to a selection of local Irish & English Cask Ales on tap (along side the usual selection of lagers) & bottled beers . . . The Irish pub industry (stale) needs a long overdue kick up the backside for the good of the consumers pocket & palate, and JDs are the very chain to do it. Expect sunday roast+ a pint of Ale for a tenner!
MYOB wrote: » Dwindling number of pubs are actually in the VFI these days. 33 listed in all of Donegal on their website for instance. Don't think it provides them with any advantages at all anymore.
Allyall wrote: » In many small towns in Ireland, the pubs have serious price fixing going on.
Seaneh wrote: » Carlsburg, Heiniken are like the mcdonalds of beer. They are low production cost, high profit, low quality, mass marketed ****e that people only buy because they recognise he brand name.
johnnyskeleton wrote: » Possibly. There are no doubt people who have latched onto the craft beer banter because its trendy without necessarily liking the beers. In fact, the backlash against Wetherspoons is evidence of the dislike of large companies.
Seaneh wrote: » eCarlsburg, Heiniken are like the mcdonalds of beer. They are low production cost, high profit, low quality, mass marketed ****e that people only buy because they recognise he brand name.
Stojkovic wrote: » All American beer is piss.
Sunglasses Ron wrote: » And let me guess, some obsure Japanese rice brewed lager would go down a storm with the chin strokers, but because Bud is big, it's ****e. Is there literally not one popular beer that is decent according to the snobs? What is so awful about the common mans tastes that the liKes of Heineken and Carlsberg have to apparently make themselves awful?
johnnyskeleton wrote: » Well lambic beers are usually marketed as such, small brewery, traditional methods, wild yeast etc but as many beer drinkers hate the style as love it.
Seaneh wrote: » Budvar tastes very unlike Budweiser. Read the ingredients list for both. Budvar doesn't have ****ing rice in it. The only thing they have in common is they are both light, pale lagers.
poisonated wrote: » Sorry if this was already posted; http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/agribusiness-and-food/british-chain-wetherspoon-set-to-open-up-to-30-pubs-in-ireland-1.1527271
Witchie wrote: » I love Spoons. They cater well for veggies and celiacs which suits my family well so we often eat there in Enniskillen. Been in lovely ones in Liverpool, Brighton and London and wish they would open here. Good food at reasonable prices and a great selection of drink.
Sunglasses Ron wrote: » If Bud was presented with a description of being brewed in an overtly traditional non factory way since the dark ages do you doubt it would not be critically lauded? I reckon within 100 years someone will set up a "real" Irish draught brand, and Guinness will become regarded as commercial touristy ****e that is contaminated by the Bud and other big names brewed in the same plant.
johnnyskeleton wrote: » I'm not saying there is anything wrong with Budweiser
Sunglasses Ron wrote: » Of course they would. Budvar is a highly regarded Czech beer. Bud is regarded as yank toilet water. Apart from the fact Budvar has slightly more of a kick to the taste due to its slightly higher alcohol volume Budweiser and Budvar taste nearly identical. Try telling that to a beer snob. You'd have more chance of getting blowjob off the pope.
Sunglasses Ron wrote: » My ****ing arse. If you served Budweiser to a beer snob out of an unmarked tap in a craft bar and told him on the menu it was a smooth, crisp beer brewed since 1892 in a Slovak monastery, the dopey hipster prick would be raving about it whilst simultaneously badmouthing Bud as commercial crap. I remember n article a while back when they gave critics Tesco branded wine and gave them another Tesco wine but with a fake label the critics slated the branded wine and raved about the unmarked Tesco wine.
