tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post9130870502691675493..comments2024-03-28T09:35:43.919+00:00Comments on Paul's Beer & Travel Blog: Micro-pubsPaul Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-6319167251537042072014-10-11T10:02:20.636+01:002014-10-11T10:02:20.636+01:00If Thursday's election results are anything to...If Thursday's election results are anything to go by, there might be a lot more UKippers than people think!<br /><br />More to the point, there was nothing terrible about the beer I drank the other week. Cool, fresh and well-conditioned; Pale Ales, IPA's, Porters and Green Hop Ales, so what's not to like? Depends if you're constrained by blind prejudice and a totally closed mind, I suppose.Paul Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-41758487911685917902014-10-10T08:50:30.106+01:002014-10-10T08:50:30.106+01:00Basically drink terrible beer in the company of UK...Basically drink terrible beer in the company of UKippers. That's progress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-83953445804264339852014-10-09T11:32:44.812+01:002014-10-09T11:32:44.812+01:00That's what I do, Paulo, steer clear of such d...That's what I do, Paulo, steer clear of such dumps.<br /><br />But considering the narrow appeal of these places, enjoy them whilst enough old white middle class people use 'em, but don't be claiming they are assets of community value when they shut eh?Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-42556220287752212272014-10-08T21:31:17.166+01:002014-10-08T21:31:17.166+01:00Quite by accident I saw the online Daily Mail arti...Quite by accident I saw the online Daily Mail article you are referring to, Cookie, and I wonder by what strange quirk of logic you deduce that the pub customers “appear very middle class”? They all look like perfectly normal members of the human race to me. Why this obsession with trying to pigeon hole people?<br /><br />I really don’t know where people like you and py are coming from on this. I wrote an article about micro-pubs, and the very welcome increase in their numbers, only for you and your trolling mate to turn the discussion on its head by bringing in totally irrelevant matters of age, gender and ethnicity.<br /><br />If you don’t like micro-pubs then don’t go in them. End of story! I don’t like disco bars or pubs packed full of football supporters, so I avoid them. I don’t write snide comments about them, or insist they alter their customer base to suit people like me.<br />Paul Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-54015498035742701352014-10-07T21:34:37.994+01:002014-10-07T21:34:37.994+01:00This one here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/t...This one here<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2783578/Inside-Sixpenny-Pint-UK-s-smallest-pubs-named-Good-Beer-Guide.html<br /><br />appears very middle class, middle aged and ummm white.<br /><br />But at least theres no lager !Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-87948368589171026342014-10-06T19:12:40.066+01:002014-10-06T19:12:40.066+01:00“A small shop front full of old white men.” You’ve...“A small shop front full of old white men.” You’ve excelled yourself here py; in one sentence you’ve managed to be ageist, racist and sexist. Not bad going really!<br /><br />I would be wasting my breath if I was to tell you the micro-pubs we visited last week were full of all sorts of different people, male and female, young and old and anything in between. And as Nev points out, what on earth has the colour of people’s skin got to do with it? <br /><br />You really have a narrow minded and very jaundiced view of the world, but I will have the last laugh as you too will be old one day, and it will happen much quicker than you think!<br />Paul Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-32670626191404944372014-10-06T14:59:02.182+01:002014-10-06T14:59:02.182+01:00PY: all of the four local mini-pubs I've been ...PY: all of the four local mini-pubs I've been in regularly attract groups of young and not-quite-so-young (30s & 40s) women. <br /><br />Two of them sell keg lager, and all four serve bottled lager.<br /><br />As for the colour of the skin of people who use these places, why is that relevant, except to a racist?Neville Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923209266005338452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-32201148235024562162014-10-06T10:00:47.012+01:002014-10-06T10:00:47.012+01:00A small shopfront full of old white men, defined b...A small shopfront full of old white men, defined by what they don't serve rather than what they do.<br /><br />Last stop before the crematorium!pynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-25660579668109240622014-10-06T08:24:45.607+01:002014-10-06T08:24:45.607+01:00A last refuge for CAMRA types to celebrate the dea...A last refuge for CAMRA types to celebrate the death of the pub in the form of it's last dying gasp as pubs become a cottage industry. But at least there is no lager!Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-18438340658981082322014-10-06T05:45:15.465+01:002014-10-06T05:45:15.465+01:00The Liverpool Pigeon, which is on that list and wh...The Liverpool Pigeon, which is on that list and which opened last year, is about 10 miles south of here; it is the Liverpool CAMRA pub of the year this year. I’ve been several times. Here in Southport, we have the well-established and popular Inn Beer Shop, which has a massive range of bottles that you can drink on site or take away, plus one cask beer. There are also two mini-pubs made out of shops: one from a newsagents and one from a lingerie shop. Both sell real ales along with some bottles, but also wines, spirits and keg/craft beer as well as the cask. None of these is a micropub in the strict sense of the phrase, but they are popular and add to the variety in the town. Neville Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923209266005338452noreply@blogger.com