Allyall wrote: » Hmmm... It does seem to attract a certain crowd.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf9_myDxzM0
ScumLord wrote: » Inb fairness to Diageo I've seen the guy come in testing the line and the pint to make sure it's up to standard. I've found guinness pretty reliable in Ireland. Different story altogether in other countries though, I don't think they have the same quality control.
irish_goat wrote: » Diageo clean the lines so there's rarely a problem with dirty ones. "Correct pouring" is totally irrelevant to the taste.
Allyall wrote: » I wouldn't be mad keen on that. It looks like a canteen or, one of the Supermarket restaurants in the 80's. Bit weird everyone sitting around in groups of 4. Obviously you can stand, but wouldn't really appeal to me if that's what they will look like here.
chopper6 wrote: » There used to be one in Grafton St which closed in the mid-80's. Where HMV is now....and for useless information,the McDonalds across the road was a restaurant called the Pavillion
awec wrote: » http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/static/gallery/915-pub-page.jpg That's a bit of the inside of the one in Belfast (I think)- the seating layout etc is pretty typical of any Wetherspoons I have been in.
Allyall wrote: » Tink yew misd de sarkasmm..
Seaneh wrote: » They stock s lot of American. British, belgian and German stuff too.
Allyall wrote: » I don't know why i have this image, it's a mixture of posts i suppose, but i am imagining a massive open space area, with minimal furniture, kinda cold, and no music. People mostly standing around with fixed tables/shelves to put your drinks on.. Converted Supermarkets/Cinema shells/Warehouses/Post Offices.. They don't sound too appealing. Unless it was to have a few cheap drinks before you went 'out'.
stimpson wrote: » Most of what PH sell are their own brews.
Seaneh wrote: » While true, the production costs are a LOT higher per litre. Also, most of the beers ATG/Porter house/Bull & Castle sell are not Irish, so on top of duty excise is paid, driving the price even higher.
murpho999 wrote: » Strongly disagree. has a creamy white head is absolutely delicious. Problem is that 90% of A Guinness that is fresh, and poured correctly through a clean beerline and places don't serve that.
Seaneh wrote: » Also, most of the beers ATG/Porter house/Bull & Castle sell are not Irish, so on top of duty excise is paid, driving the price even higher.
irish_goat wrote: » Probably from the same place where the illusion that Guinness is a good beer came from?
Allyall wrote: » Well it's kind of obvious that they do. If they didn't then the Irish people wouldn't pay over €5 for a pint. Irish people don't take that sort of shít.
stimpson wrote: » The duty on Craft Beer is lower than on macrobrews. The one thing Brian Cowen got right as Finance Minister.
Cuddlesworth wrote: » I'd say the margin on that pint in Against the Grain is a fraction of a normal pub. Economies of scale at play.
saintsaltynuts wrote: » All this talk about all these craft beer pubs is well and good.Paying well over a fiver for a pint in Against The Grain is not.I for one welcome our new Pub Overlords.
chopper6 wrote: » Irish people can and do pay way more than a fiver a pint...if beer was a tenner a pint people would still pay it. Yes they do...they put up with bad beer,bad food,bad service,rude staff,attendents in the toilets mooching money and a host of other things that almost nobody else would tolerate. If you dont believe rish people "take ****" just look at the way we've been treated by the last couple of governments...and we happily pay a tenner a pack for cigarettes.
Allyall wrote: » . If they didn't then the Irish people wouldn't pay over €5 for a pint. .
Allyall wrote: » . Irish people don't take that sort of shít.
reprazant wrote: » I think people are being unrealistic if they think they are going to ship loads of kegs of regional english ale over to two pubs. I really don't think what is on offer will be that much different than most pubs here. Maybe I'll be wrong. I also don't think that they will be that much cheaper. They may go the route of the one under Tara st.
murpho999 wrote: » Where this illusion come from that Irish pubs serve great beer?
murpho999 wrote: » Where this illusion come from that Irish pubs serve great beer? Guinness is a good beer but often maintained badly, hard to get a good pint.
Beefy78 wrote: » True, but you shouldn't need music to create an atmosphere. As someone else said a few pages back, the din and buzz of conversation is its own atmosphere.
reprazant wrote: » Honestly, what pubs are you going to that blast music at you? The only ones I know that do that are rubbishy ones in the city centre. There is an equal amount of good ones that don't.
reprazant wrote: » In that case, then they are just going to be another craft beer pub? Maybe it is just in Dublin, but it is not as if there is not quite a number of them as it is. The one in Blackrock must be pissed off in that case. The guy from Porterhouse was on the radio yesterday and he was of the opinion that they have changed their model, moving away from the cheap drinks market, but that may be just in London.
chopper6 wrote: » There used to be one in Grafton St which closed in the mid-80's.
