Mid Week Pints at the Local Pub

JimFin · 15-10-2013 07:19PM #1

With 10c on the pint in the budget and the undeniable reduction in number of pubs open just got me thinking about people's attitude to pubs which is well discussed but what about the few sociables during the week down at the local. There was a time plenty would go for a few on a 'school night' to watch a game on Sky, few pints after football training/indoor or just a few beers with a mate!

I rem when there would be 20 or 30 in a rural pub mid-week but that is gone completely. Many were older clientele who have passed on and weren't replaced in the same numbers. Was in a rural pub in the UK recently and it was thriving mid-week due to things like food offers (beer and a curry £7), poker nights, drinks promos and the likes.

So (for non-students

) do you go for a pint during the week? Why? Rural or urban boozer? Many about?

Eeden · 15-10-2013 07:27PM

Now you mention it... usually only if there's something on like a quiz you want to support, or folks over on holiday that you want to meet up with.

God be with the days I'd go out any night of the week!

Galway City.

Lapin · 15-10-2013 07:36PM

Always better crack in my local during the week.

Full of real drinkers who spend a few bob. Good customers.

Unlike the once a week shower who flood the place on a Saturday night turning up half pissed after starting at home and knocking back their shots of yeager-bombs, insult the bar staff, stumble around in their high heels, before throwing up all over the floor of the jax, falling out the door and doing it all again in the niteclub.

Heroditas · 15-10-2013 07:38PM

Publicans seem to think all they need to do is lash a few screens up and have wall-to-wall Sky Sports and this will bring the punters in.
Pure laziness. It's rare you see things like quiz nights unless it's been organised by a third party.
Haven't gone mid-week drinking in years. Wouldn't be interested now. If I want to watch Sky Sports I can do it at home.
I go to the pub now to escape the TV!

The Backwards Man · 15-10-2013 07:38PM

Monday and Tuesday are my weekend.

ofcork · 15-10-2013 07:45PM

I remember back in the 90s we used to go out on a Monday night to watch friends!

Tigerandahalf · 15-10-2013 07:46PM

The price is a big issue amongst others. As it is midweek I wouldnt want to drink too much yet to get a bottle of beer is nearly dearer than a pint. The publicans dont offer much either. In Oz or UK you would get a food/beer deal. Some of the publicans had it too good for too long. They just had to open the doors. They didnt bother to clean the jacks.
Agree that a pint midweek can be lovely especially in the winter. Remember going for a pint of gusiness in local where you would get half and half, half gusiness from cooled barrell and other half from barrell at room temp.

Daith · 15-10-2013 07:46PM

Monday night used to be one of my favourite nights to go out on. You ended up with a different crowd mainly those who work weekends.

creep · 15-10-2013 07:51PM

Local serves 3 euro pints, cant go wrong

wp_rathead · 15-10-2013 07:53PM

O'connells midweek in Galway is bliss

Links234 · 15-10-2013 07:54PM

I tend not to drink on weekends anyway, so a quiet one mid-week is what I'd usually do

Retrovertigo · 15-10-2013 08:07PM

ofcork wrote: »

I remember back in the 90s we used to go out on a Monday night to watch friends!

Ahh, old school stalking before Facebook.

emo72 · 15-10-2013 08:12PM

was impartial to meeting a friend down the local on sunday night to round off the weekend. thursday night was always a good night too.

sunday is a disaster now, love hate comes on at full volume and its like being in a cinema. the hush descends and everyone goes quiet. **** that i leave my house to avoid the telly. golden rule....only sports in pubs. thats it.

Fr_Dougal · 15-10-2013 08:16PM

Hangovers in work, not worth it.

Captain Chaos · 15-10-2013 08:20PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Hangovers in work, not worth it.

It's not going out and getting hammered mid week like 10-12 pints on a Friday or Saturday night. Just 4-6 pints on a midweek night and you are grand in the morning, used do it all the time at least twice a week and up at 6am fresh as a daisy, and that's staying till last orders.

Can't be doing it anymore though with all these price hikes and taxes.

Bassfish · 15-10-2013 08:23PM

Used to DJ in a pub in Cork on Wednesdays, was always a decent crowd in, probably 2/3 of what you'd have on a Saturday. MAinly students and alcos though to be fair.

oldyouth · 15-10-2013 08:31PM

I love a few teatimers midweek. A group of mates gathered around for the craic and then home for a late dinner. No assholes and not sloppy pints thrown up in front of you

hawkwind23 · 15-10-2013 08:38PM

all the football puts me off the midweek pints now.
nice and quiet from 5-7 then the orange cordial crowd come in and push around the bar and the dumb football baring from about 20 tvs.
stopped going , although ive found a nice pub with no TV but its a bit far for the midweek pint.

kneemos · 15-10-2013 08:43PM

Retrovertigo wrote: »

Ahh, old school stalking before Facebook.

Just shout thank at them.

JohnnyChimpo · 15-10-2013 08:48PM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

It's not going out and getting hammered mid week like 10-12 pints on a Friday or Saturday night. Just 4-6 pints on a midweek night and you are grand in the morning, used do it all the time at least twice a week and up at 6am fresh as a daisy, and that's staying till last orders.

You're a hard man so, if I had 6 pints on a Wednesday night I'd be absolutely ballsed the next day, and probably not too fresh come Friday either. I think I'd be questioning my alcohol intake if I was that immune.

JimFin · 15-10-2013 11:23PM

You do get a more enjoyable pint mid-week, 2 or 3 and home early and your sound in the morning. On a night like tonight its proper Prime Time in your local with everyone discussing the budget and having there own opinion.

On prob in rural Ireland though is no one goes out until 11, if you were seen in the pub at 8 o clock people would say you had a problem!

IK09 · 16-10-2013 11:16AM

We used to go every Thursday for "Thursty Thursday", 2pints then home. Then 2 of the lads turned it into "Toxic Thursday" where they would stay for 4/5 more after the designated "Thursty Thursday" pints and they would be hassling you to go with them to the next pub.

That was the sad end of "Thursty Thursday"

16-10-2013 11:25AM

JohnnyChimpo wrote: »

You're a hard man so, if I had 6 pints on a Wednesday night I'd be absolutely ballsed the next day, and probably not too fresh come Friday either. I think I'd be questioning my alcohol intake if I was that immune.

Ballsed after 6 pints and still feeling it two days later

, I'd count it as a quiet few pints (as would most people I know so I'm no different), wouldn't bother me the next day at all.

truebluesac · 16-10-2013 11:31AM

I used to do door work so my only time to relax and have a pint was mid week . I also had a mate who owned a couple of pubs and he was my mid week company .

Now i just find it too much of a hassel and expence . I work a shift job now that includes weekends , but id rather have a few cans in the house and have a mate or 2 over ,

anncoates · 16-10-2013 11:34AM

Dante Billions Drugstore wrote: »

Ballsed after 6 pints and still feeling it two days later , I'd count it as a quiet few pints (as would most people I know so I'm no different), wouldn't bother me the next day at all.

Actually depends for me.

Sometimes I can do it no bother and then the odd time it ambushes you and you get sloshed and end up with a head next day.

16-10-2013 11:42AM

anncoates wrote: »

Actually depends for me.

Sometimes I can do it no bother and then the odd time it ambushes you and you get sloshed and end up with a head next day.

6 pints would never leave me feeling any worse than a bit groggy for the first hour in the morning, I know people have different tolerance but unless someone has a very low tolerance then 6 pints shouldn't leave them (a man anyway) feeling too bad the next day and certainly not still feeling it the following day.

Sgt Hartman · 16-10-2013 11:50AM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Hangovers in work, not worth it.

This is the reason I never drink mid-week. Work is bad enough without trying to get through it with a stinking hangover:( I'll allow myself a bottle or 2 on thursday nights at home but that's it.
Friday and Saturday are my only big days for booze. I'd only ever drink midweek if I was off the next day.

Gremlinertia · 16-10-2013 11:56AM

Like a few others here i work weekends and i'm unable to tolerate some of the gobsh1tery that occurs on a Saturday night, much rather a seat at the bar, calmly pulled pint, bit of a chat, old head on nearly as old shoulders i guess.

jimgoose · 16-10-2013 11:59AM

I go for a few creamy pints down t'Woolpack (suburban) of a Tuesday evening. Theoretically a few of us play tennis first, just after work, but in practice that seems to be sort of optional.

garv123 · 16-10-2013 12:09PM

Not sure why you said except students?
Thats one thing that has dropped massively over the last few years, students going to the pub before heading to the nightclub mid week.

Now its pre-drink at a house and go straight to a club and spend as little as possible for most people.

We go to the pub twice a week after training for one pint to socialise and then off home. There is no tv in the pub either and you wouldnt even notice it. The trad session over in the corner is grand background noise.

JohnnyChimpo · 16-10-2013 12:17PM

Dante Billions Drugstore wrote: »

Ballsed after 6 pints and still feeling it two days later , I'd count it as a quiet few pints (as would most people I know so I'm no different), wouldn't bother me the next day at all.

As I said before, you're a harder man than me so. I definitely would have shrugged off 6 pints when I was a bit younger, but now that I'm rounding on 30 thats just not feasible. Possible factor is that my job is mentally taxing, and also requires that my hands are pretty steady, when I was working in a shop or whatever I didn't give a **** either way.

Also I long ago discovered that my enjoyment of a night pretty much plateaued after about 4-5 drinks, and anything beyond that just made me ****tier the next day, and didn't make me cooler when I was out on the town. I realise it's different for everybody, but I'm pretty happy that as a 6'6", 200lb guy I can get pissed on very little, have a good night, and be capable of humanity the next day.

Mid Week Pints at the Local Pub

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