Age Requirements for Great British Beer Festival???

LOL! That's going to keep teenagers nicely sober isn't it? :)

Well it always was a bit odd, but that was what I liked about this country, the totally nonsensical rules. They keep on tidying them up though. Very sad.

Stuart Hudson

In article , Jeff Pickthall writes

One way to make sure no-one will serve him beer....

Steve

In article , The Submarine Captain writes

Blimey! Things have changed since I last made it down for GBBF - I did hear from someone, though, that stewards now have to have passed the same certification as pub/club door staff.

Steve

True, but without the additional module[1] required for doormen.

[1] Being an obnoxious plonker.

In article , Steven Pampling writes

'Eck - how are they managing to get enough stewards?

(As far as I can tell, if you get certificated in Edinburgh, you're only valid for Edinburgh - is it different Dahn Sahf? Also, it's not cheap)

Steve

Free training. :-)

As ever, if you want training in an occupation then it can probably be sourced "in-house" don't forget the membership goes from dustmen to doctors, IT support to Income Tax, Physiotherapist to ...

...damn, begins with P, an old profession, ... suggestions?

A child of 16 or 17 can drink beer and wine in licensed premises as long as they're eating something with it. See page 3 of

At home of course a child can drink from age 4 I think. I'm not sure of the exact age.

The stewards at the recent London Drinker were in their officious element when an alarm went off and their had to be an evacuation on to the street. You could just about see the adrenaline and the buzz of excitement in them. Their mates (if they have any) will be hearing about their moment of fame for a long time to come.

JP

Hmmm. Given that the reason for the alarm could be fire, bomb or a.n.other reason would anyone really complain if the person that moved them out of a building before it exploded was not unctuous enough for royalty?

25 years of festivals and I've never needed to evacuate people from the building - lucky.

It was when everyone was already outside when I encountered them. They took it upon themselves to instruct innocent non-festival goers too.

I wonder if it was the stifling heat and humidity in the venue that set of some kind of sensor? It was bloody awful in there and most punters were pleased to be able to take their drinks outside and get a lungful of fresh London air.

JP

I saw G.B.B.F stewards instructing people not go up Olympia Way at one point the other year - the fact that their hair might have been radically shortened by the rotors of the helicopter trying to land didn't seem to be appreciated by all the people held back near the station.

Nice irony. Does "fresh" and "London air" count as a full spec oxymoron? :-)

It was fresher than some of the beer I had!

JP

In article , Jeff Pickthall writes

Can't speak to that - or to your interpretation of the stewards' reaction, but one of the standard bits of steward training up in Scotland is on fire safety, with the complete video of the Bradford Stadium Fire, complete with voice-overs from emergency services at the time.

Having seen that video would encourage ANYONE to have an adrenaline rush when emptying a venue - and not in a good way, either.

Steve