[Drinking] Parenting in pubs

[Guinness Boy]

Before I had kids I used to deliberately swerve the Stoneham, because I knew it was full of kids and stone baked pizzas etc.

Yesterday we deliberately went to the Railway because we have kids.

Different pubs for different... needs...

Yes, but if you're an alcoholic Liverpool fan with kids and a flange like a bucket, I'd imagine a council estate boozer showing the football is your pub to meet your need

Unless [MENTION=70]Easy 10[/MENTION] has changed locals......

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

To me the gap between craft ale and real ale is pretty much non existent now and the gap between Brewdog and Fosters very similar, but each to their own

I’m not sure what you mean by “gap”. My take relates more to the “style” of beer. Real ale is from a cask and hand pulled whereas craft is from a keg and extracted using pressure; the style of beer is therefore quite different. And whilst Fosters is also from a keg it’s much more commercially driven when it comes to brewing process and ingredients. As someone said earlier, it’s a useful but broad term to differentiate three different types of beer/ale. That’s all. If you put a pint of Punk IPA, a pint of cask, and a pint of Fosters on a table I think most would say they’re different and these, in my mind, represent the three groups I’m talking about.

This is just my take. Bit like the term heavy metal…it very broadly describes a style of music.

 

[Chicken Run]

a flange like a bucket

Wow, for the first time in an awful long time you’ve made me chuckle [emoji2960]


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[Chicken Run]

Before I had kids I used to deliberately swerve the Stoneham, because I knew it was full of kids and stone baked pizzas etc.

Yesterday we deliberately went to the Railway because we have kids.

Different pubs for different... needs...

I do feel for you millennial parents, when my kids were young we had Charlie Chalks to go to!!!


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[Herr Tubthumper]

I do feel for you millennial parents, when my kids were young we had Charlie Chalks to go to!!!


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We’ll be fine with the Gen Z parents. They don’t drink so we will be left alone and not bothered by them and their kids.

 

[Easy 10]

Yes, but if you're an alcoholic Liverpool fan with kids and a flange like a bucket, I'd imagine a council estate boozer showing the football is your pub to meet your need

Unless [MENTION=70]Easy 10[/MENTION] has changed locals......

I don't really have a local any more. I'm a refugee. A vagrant. A soldier of fortune.

I wander the landscapes of Sussex and beyond seeking wisdom, enlightenment, BT Sports and Amstel.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I don't really have a local any more. I'm a refugee. A vagrant. A soldier of fortune.

I wander the landscapes of Sussex and beyond seeking wisdom, enlightenment, BT Sports and Amstel.

Well, if your landscape wandering took you to SOUTHWICK then there's no surprise in your OP at all

 

[Easy 10]

Well, if your landscape wandering took you to SOUTHWICK then there's no surprise in your OP at all

Any port in a storm as they say, my fair fellow

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Agree. Strictly speaking I suppose they are not “craft” anymore but it’s a useful term that lets you know this isn’t Carling.

I agree it’s a useful term. If someone says “hey, shall we hit the local craft beer bar” you just know you’re in for a night with sophisticated intellectual well groomed guys and their good looking girls. If it’s real ale pub its overweight flatulent sweaty men and no girls and the latter is coked up estate agents in cheap suits and Love Island bimbos.

 

[The Clamp]

I agree it’s a useful term. If someone says “hey, shall we hit the local craft beer bar” you just know you’re in for a night with sophisticated intellectual well groomed guys and their good looking girls. If it’s real ale pub its overweight flatulent sweaty men and no girls and the latter is coked up estate agents in cheap suits and Love Island bimbos.

I think that’s a spot on appraisal. If there’s not a coat stand dripping with man-bags at the entrance and artisan snacks in Kilner jars behind the bar, one may as well be in a Greene King.

 

[keaton]

Do wine bars still exist? Wouldn't they be the perfect place for people wanting to avoid children?

 

[The Clamp]

Do wine bars still exist? Wouldn't they be the perfect place for people wanting to avoid children?

I think the events at The Dagmar spelled the end for wine bars.

 

[Brovion]

I agree it’s a useful term. If someone says “hey, shall we hit the local craft beer bar” you just know you’re in for a night with sophisticated intellectual well groomed guys and their good looking girls. If it’s real ale pub its overweight flatulent sweaty men and no girls and the latter is coked up estate agents in cheap suits and Love Island bimbos.

Speaking as someone who drinks real ale and frequents real ale pubs I've got to say I find your statement
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[Chicken Run]

We’ll be fine with the Gen Z parents. They don’t drink so we will be left alone and not bothered by them and their kids & hybrid poodles.

Haha very true and slightly edited for you


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[Jesus Gul]

Sure we used to get left outside the pub with a packet of crisps (pickled onion or oxtail). I recall one evening summer '82 Brazil v Scotland being left outside a boozer in Kemp Town. Big cheer when Narey scored.

 

[Baker lite]

I don't really have a local any more. I'm a refugee. A vagrant. A soldier of fortune.

I wander the landscapes of Sussex and beyond seeking wisdom, enlightenment, BT Sports and Amstel.

The Cricketers then..

 

[Easy 10]

The Cricketers then..

As I say, any port in a storm.

 

[Norman Potting]

I’m not sure what you mean by “gap”. My take relates more to the “style” of beer. Real ale is from a cask and hand pulled whereas craft is from a keg and extracted using pressure; the style of beer is therefore quite different. And whilst Fosters is also from a keg it’s much more commercially driven when it comes to brewing process and ingredients. As someone said earlier, it’s a useful but broad term to differentiate three different types of beer/ale. That’s all. If you put a pint of Punk IPA, a pint of cask, and a pint of Fosters on a table I think most would say they’re different and these, in my mind, represent the three groups I’m talking about.

This is just my take. Bit like the term heavy metal…it very broadly describes a style of music.

Surely both real ale and craft ale should be either cask or bottle conditioned and therefore not requiring added fizz?

 

[MattBackHome]

I do feel for you millennial parents, when my kids were young we had Charlie Chalks to go to!!!


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I remember the Charlie Chalk cartoon, or more accurately, the theme tune for it, which probably rules me out of being classified millennial.

 

[Baker lite]

Sure we used to get left outside the pub with a packet of crisps (pickled onion or oxtail). I recall one evening summer '82 Brazil v Scotland being left outside a boozer in Kemp Town. Big cheer when Narey scored.

Sat outside the Blue house with a packet of Rincheros, if we were good , a pickled egg.
Happy days.[emoji1303]