Stocking a cooking lager in a pub

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

If pubs didn't sell "cooking lager" they'd go out of business. Like it, or not, there's a huge demand for it.

 

[Jello]

Landlord is considering an offer from a pub co to carry a discounted line which could retail at a lower price. Problem is I don't like any of them so can give no useful input. The choice (such as it is) is Fosters, Carling or Carlsberg. So for those who like that kind of shit what's best?

Poll to follow, if I can work out how to post one

Assuming it's Coopers which currently sells Becks, Heineken, Amstel, Leffe, Guinness, Harveys, Long Man and several ciders, my question is which beer is he getting rid of?
And knowing the landlord it won't be £2.40

 

[SeagullSongs]

Fosters for me

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

If pubs didn't sell "cooking lager" they'd go out of business. Like it, or not, there's a huge demand for it.

There are plenty of pubs which disprove your argument.

 

[clapham_gull]

When confronted with a choice of those, I'd go elsewhere. In fact I'd go to The Southover and have a "MEANTIME FRIESIAN PILSENER 5.2% Light golden in colour, Meantime Friesian Pilsener expresses the character of classical German hops, herbal and citric in aroma, clean and bitter on the palate." Or Craft Beer Co for one of their lovely lagers.

Had one last night, lovely.

Followed by their lager which in London they are serving out these huge copper? Vessels in some pups installed onto the bar.

Have you tried the Yakima Red ?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Had one last night, lovely.

Followed by their lager which in London they are serving out these huge copper? Vessels in some pups installed onto the bar.

Have you tried the Yakima Red ?

Yes I have had the Yakima Red, very nice isn't it. There are so many Meantime beers which are just fantastic and i like the fact they have a good range of lagers/pilsners as well as ales/ambers/porters. After Charlton games I tend to go to one of their two pubs in Greenwich; The Old Brewery is a lovely place to spend time.

 

[beorhthelm]

If pubs didn't sell "cooking lager" they'd go out of business. Like it, or not, there's a huge demand for it.

sadly this is true.

There are plenty of pubs which disprove your argument.

unfortunatly the ratio of these pubs is low to those serving random fizzy amber liquid, which proves his point. and the prices they charge are ridiculous small breweries get a substanital reduced duty, the new pubs that sell them do their best to make non-mainstream lager look like elitist and pretentious (looking at the Craft Beer Co esp). i recal when the likes of Budvar Staropramen and Kirin where cheaper than Stella and other "premium" brands.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Foster's is definitely the biggest seller of the three.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Read a few times on this thread, if I'm short or strapped for cash, if this is the case should you not be spending your last amount of money on an alcohol fix, all sounds a bit desperate.

 

[Commander]

Fosters is rank, Carlsberg is rank, Carling is ever so slightly less rank. Go for that.

It probably doesn't make a difference anyway, people tend to buy cheap lager because its cheap or because they are driving, not because they prefer the taste of a specific brand over premium lager.

 

[matildaseagull]

Real men drink beer!

This.

Dark Star or Harvey's for me.

 

[MuppetMaestro]

As long as it would be Carlsberg Hof it should be fine. Export is horrendous. As for the others, If there is a cheap tinny deal I might drink them.

 

[fataddick]

Fosters will attract more scum to the place, so it depends if it's the quantity or quality of clientele he's after. Most decent pubs don't stock the three big scum magnets (in order of verminocity: Fosters, Strongbow, Stella) specifically to keep those sort of people out.

 

[Garage_Doors]

because they are driving, not because they prefer the taste of a specific brand over premium lager.

WTF. Are you serious

 

[dougdeep]

Carling is so thin it's almost anorexic.

 

[Commander]

WTF. Are you serious

Yes. If someone is going to have one beer and drive, it makes sense to have one that is 4% instead if 5%, doesn't it?

 

[albionite]

Still find it odd that fosters is such a big selling drink in this country and the ozzies refuse to drink it and laugh at us. Carlton cold and VB are owned by fosters and much nicer to drink, but they sell the sh*t to us

 

[Garage_Doors]

Yes. If someone is going to have one beer and drive, it makes sense to have one that is 4% instead if 5%, doesn't it?

It does not make any sence that someone is going to drink any beer if going to drive.

 

[Kaiser_Soze]

It does not make any sence that someone is going to drink any beer if going to drive.

But there will always be people that have one pint and drive. This is generally accepted to be under the limit if it is a weaker lager rather than a premium lager.

 

[Commander]

It does not make any sence that someone is going to drink any beer if going to drive.

I agree. But plenty if people do, and they aren't breaking any laws doing it, so who are you to tell them otherwise?