Awful guest ale yesterday.

[Dirk Lehmann's Python]

I think it's pretty ****ing amazing that we get guests ales at a football ground.

Guest ales are hit and miss in a pub, don't see why it would be different at The Amex.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Some mates went in there on the rather hopeful chance that the guest ale was by Magic Rock.

Thanks for the reminder. Just been on the Magic Rock website to order some cans of Salty Kiss. Will save you one for your next trip over.

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

I had a pint of it in the North and thought it was all right.

 

[theboybilly]

I think it's pretty ****ing amazing that we get guests ales at a football ground.

Guest ales are hit and miss in a pub, don't see why it would be different at The Amex.

Are we still the only club (I don't know of another) that keeps their bars open after the match? This is one thing I miss at away games

 

[Pantani]

Some mates went in there on the rather hopeful chance that the guest ale was by Magic Rock. Sadly it was one of the big, but bland, breweries.

Out of interest how do they decide on the guest ale? Who advises the club?

The choice of guest ale appears to be chosen from the ales of the month that Heineken supply. Each quarter Heineken send out a magazine type brochure which includes a section on the guest ales that they are supplying for any given month. The Albion then pick an ale from that list (or from the list that Heineken continuously supply) that is closest to the team that we are playing.

I do not know this totally from fact, but where I work we are supplied by Heineken, as are the Albion. This was how our ale was supplied too, until we cut a deal to let us get our ale from local suppliers instead. So now we have the excellent Long Man brewery supplying all of our ales, which is really rather nice.

EDIT: Apologies for the over use of the words supply and supplying...

 

[Marty___Mcfly]

Well instead of supplying known canned/bottled beer as a substitute, why don't they simply order more Harveys?

Because it's perishable and they don't want to end up throwing any away.

As a back up they just need a couple of thousand bottles of Harvey's and maybe some cans of craft type IPA. It's not rocket science is it- ensuring your bars can always sell beer, kind of feels like an essential task when you run bars, which sell beer.

 

[Braggfan]

Well instead of supplying known canned/bottled beer as a substitute, why don't they simply order more Harveys?

I don’t think it’s as simple as just ordering more Harvey’s due to the capacity of the brewery. Harvey’s Brewery have long maintained they don’t want to move out of Lewes but have limited space to expand, meaning there is limit to how much beer they can physically produce. When the Amex first opened I remember some pubs in the area complaining the quality of the beer had gone down because the increased demand of serving the Amex on top of their existing client base had stretched the brewery’s production. Like I say I imagine they run on fairly tight margins now in terms of what they can supply, and it might not be possible to simply say let’s increase order of beer to the Amex.

 

[ROSM]

The guest ale (theakstons lightfoot) wasn't to my taste ( i had it as the harveys was being changed) but as others have said, how great to have the choice.

 

[tinx]

I really liked the guest ale, much nicer than Harveys which is OK but I would never choose it if there was other alternatives. I miss Hophead. Loved having a couple of pints of hophead pre match.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I dream of a craft beer AMEX. Just imagine the atmosphere if the stadium was revved up on high-octane double IPAs and Imperial Stouts.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I dream of a craft beer AMEX. Just imagine the atmosphere if the stadium was revved up on high-octane double IPAs and Imperial Stouts.

Maybe we'll get a home friendly in Summer v Aberdeen and they'll lay on some Brewdog beers.

 

[Pantani]

Maybe we'll get a home friendly in Summer v Aberdeen and they'll lay on some Brewdog beers.

No chance. If we play Aberdeen the thinking will go like this. Aberdeen is in Scotland, Heineken supply loads of different Caledonian Brewery Beers. Which is the cheapest? Deuchars IPA. There is your guest ale.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I dream of a craft beer AMEX. Just imagine the atmosphere if the stadium was revved up on high-octane double IPAs and Imperial Stouts.

Not sure the Amex will be THAT revved up, if nobody can afford more than a half.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

No chance. If we play Aberdeen the thinking will go like this. Aberdeen is in Scotland, Heineken supply loads of different Caledonian Brewery Beers. Which is the cheapest? Deuchars IPA. There is your guest ale.

Boooooooooo.

If we do play Aberdeen I'll take it upon myself to hand out Sink The Bismark Quadruple IPAs to everyone.

 

[Pantani]

Boooooooooo.

If we do play Aberdeen I'll take it upon myself to hand out Sink The Bismark Quadruple IPAs to everyone.

I'll get there early

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

No chance. If we play Aberdeen the thinking will go like this. Aberdeen is in Scotland, Heineken supply loads of different Caledonian Brewery Beers. Which is the cheapest? Deuchars IPA. There is your guest ale.

Noooooooooo...

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Not sure the Amex will be THAT revved up, if nobody can afford more than a half.

Good point. But one Quadruple IPA should do the trick. It might be more expensive but you'll get where you need to go a lot quicker and with much less effort.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Good point. But one Quadruple IPA should do the trick. It might be more expensive but you'll get where you need to go a lot quicker and with much less effort.

If that's the sole aim, why not just make BUCKFAST the guest 'ale'?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

If that's the sole aim, why not just make BUCKFAST the guest 'ale'?

Because I'm pompous and/or pretentious?

 

[Pantani]

Noooooooooo...

Yep, afraid so. I might start playing guess the guest ale before each match. Though with Brentford up next guessing London Pride is not going to make me look either big, or clever.