Wetherspoons - 99p a pint

I'm staggered by the out and out lie that "prices across the industry were already 65 percent lower in real terms than in 1980" (quote from BBC website and also heard on BBC TV news tonight).

Well, I was drinking beer in 1980 and I have a pretty good memory of what it cost back then, typically 50p-54p a pint for best bitter. The Retail Prices Index has gone up by some 250 percent since then. If the price of beer in a pub had followed RPI, it would now cost around GBP

1.70. Which to be fair, it mostly does - if you're drinking in a Wetherspoon's house.

A more typical price "across the industry" is now about GBP 2.40 though. And if the price of a pint had actually come down by 65 percent in real terms, then we would be looking at just a pound a pint.

I can't understand why no-one at the BBC even queries these mad statements.

-- Pat Ricroft, City of Salford, UK ===============================

we are finding this a big drawback . . .

So much of the real ale that is being sold at our spoons is GK IPA that the guest beers are reduced to two and they are not being changed very quickly. Friday night's two, which I didn't like, were still on tonight.

:o(((

I hope they stop this silly offer soon!

In article , Chris de Cordova writes

I had several pints of SA Gold at 1.99 GBP this evening which were most enjoyable, and tried GK IPA at 99p/pint, which was not. In short you are not compelled to drink the urine, so why complain if it is cheap, mot people were not drinking to price.

I am not compelled to drink the IPA - I am complaining that there is less choice because it is on the bar and cheap.

In article , Chris de Cordova writes

They had IPA on the bar before reducing it to 99p, and the choice was no less than some of the times before it was reduced. If my local Wetherspoons had nothing of interest (as sometimes happens) I would have chosen to go to another pub (Fuller's, Shepherd Neame, Timothy Taylor, White Horse, Young's, etc.), where depends on how little drinking time is available.

We hardly ever had GK IPA on the bar; being so close to Scotland we had Deuchars IPA instead, Now we have GK IPA on FIVE handpumps!!! Whereat one time we used to have FIVE guest beers. (10 guests altogether)

In article , Mark writes

It is the closest taking about seven minutes to walk to, others take fifteen to thirty minutes with waiting time for bus or underground. Since I sometimes do not go out until 21:30 on a Sunday I go to the closest, although some of the others are open much latter (I enjoyed a few pints of SA gold last Sunday). As such this is in part being lazy, and part not wanting to be too late getting home. This said I have walked into the Wetherspoons at 21:30, looked at the choice (e.g. Itchen Valley, Itchen Valley, etc.) and walked back out to get the underground to the White Horse on Parsons Green. I shall probably go there tomorrow evening.

"Dire", sir! You dare to write "Dire"!

Oh ye of little vestribulation!

For such as you, who neer do venture oft-times within such lusty portals, methinks 'tis not your province to eschew opinion, sir!

Craic!?! God I hate that word! The are plenty of Gaelic words for a good time but the unenlightened choose to use an English word!

Sadly, the ancestry hereabouts is mostly of Irish Extraction and that is the word and spelling they use! It is not about a good time - more about good conversation.

The valley that contains the small town in which I work is referred to as 'Little Ireland'! Green and lush, reminding them of their home country, when they all swarmed here during the potato famine.

Forget Wikipedia:

"the Crack is good in Cricklewood"

eveything else is just a bastardisation!

KW