BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff

[Tom A]

Not me!

I've paid around £4 for a pint by mistake once (or when I know it's a really nice beer), and in Australia (due to the very unfavourable exchange rate between the pound and the Australian dollar). But never anything like £8.

 

[Lemon Eddy]

Who goes to the pub and pays £8 a pint ffs?

That would be Norway.

 

[killer b]

i've paid £8 a pint in the port street once, just to see what an £8 pint of beer tasted like.

it tasted pretty much like a £4 pint of beer.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Who goes to the pub and pays £8 a pint

Cunts.

 

[Tom A]

Who goes to the pub and pays £8 a pint ffs?

Hipsters, mainly, and their distant cousins, the yuppies (remember when it was the latter that was the insult of choice among the left, whilst these days the former has superseeded it?)

 

[where to]

I think its important to factor alcohol percentage into any discussion on price. I don't mind spending four quid or so on a medium sized bottle of ten per cent fantastic beer. If I am half cut or tipsy for fifteen quid I am happy, price per pint is not the whole story. ( not saying they are not ripping you off mind )

 

[Frances Lengel]

None of your four pound pints in there.

 

[killer b]

haha, i stayed there after urban drinks last december. it was... odd.

 

[Frances Lengel]

haha, i stayed there after urban drinks last december. it was... odd.

Drinking in there's very disorientating - It's open all day from about ten am & it's down some stairs so there's no windows & it's about £1.20 a pint (it might be £1.50 now), anyway when you come stumbling out at teatime it catches you unawares coz it feels like you're coming out of a club only to be confronted by broad daylight and queues of people waiting for the bus home from work.

 

[Red Storm]

I bought an "Anarchist Alchemist" from the BrewDog in Manchester on Peters Street (?).

Cost me £12; I was wounded.

 

[killer b]

i note a lot of these pubs have started selling beer by the third of a pint, presumably so you don't faint when told the cost.

 

[8ball]

i note a lot of these pubs have started selling beer by the third of a pint, presumably so you don't faint when told the cost.

It'll be shot glasses before we reach our dotage.

 

[salem]

Well I've only stepped foot in one the time I mentioned before and have never felt any desire to go into another. There are lots of much better places where you can get decent beer for a fair price without some naff decor.

 

[phildwyer]

I hear of various ones from friends in the US, and a pub I work at specialises in imported micro brewery stuff from over there, but the day a yank makes a better beer than Old Peculier is the day I eat my shoes

Ugh, I can't stand that stuff. Leaves a wıcked hangover too, whıch ıs never a good sıgn.

 

[silverfish]

i like punk and i like this. it doesn't cos 4 quid a half either

FIGHt FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

 

[doddles]

"Punk" "Independent" "Alternative"

all words co-opted by big money-makers. At least with "punk" it was a dodgy, publicity hungry money-grab virtually from the outset, with the Pistols. But what's the least bit indie about "indie" music these days?

"Craft" beer *is* ridiculously expensive in this country, though you do have to allow for very small production and high alcohol for some brewers/brews. Also, those super-hoppy beers? Fresh hops are very expensive, especially imported types. Most traditional UK beers - not many hops, often not fresh, often low alcohol. So understandably cheaper.

 

[killer b]

i'm going to this next month. in the motherfucking trade session too. check out the list of breweries...

http://www.liverpoolcraftbeerexpo.com/

 

[doddles]

"Punk" "Independent" "Alternative"

Vintage, Craft, Green, Artisinal...

 

[el-ahrairah]

Beer for jitters who think they're punks

what's a jitter/s?

 

[Dogsauce]

West country: Jitter = Metaller (as shouted at anyone with long hair by passengers/drivers of passing XR2s cruising around the Centre in my youth - in best Bristol accent 'Oi! - Ji'uurrrr!")
Midlands: Jitter = Crusty type (according to folk I know from Nottingham)

 

[chilango]

Screw you guys. I'm drinking a bottle of Punk IPA as we speak. Mmmmmmm.

 

[Dillinger4]

you only like it because it makes you drunk

 

[Voley]

I got charged 8 pound 20 for a beer in Paris. I didn't know that 'grande' meant a litre, and sitting on the terrace is financial suicide. I can still remember the words 'soixante douze francs' being read out to me like some sort of death sentence. Cunt wanted a tip, too.

 

[chilango]

you only like it because it makes you drunk

Tbh I don't like being drunk thee days. Hangovers and babies REALLY don't mix well.

 

[chilango]

I got charged 8 pound 20 for a beer in Paris. I didn't know that 'grande' meant a litre, and sitting on the terrace is financial suicide. I can still remember the words 'soixante douze francs' being read out to me like some sort of death sentence. Cunt wanted a tip, too.

That's cheap for Paris. You got a vey good deal.

 

[Voley]

That's cheap for Paris. You got a vey good deal.

This was about 15 years ago.

 

[chilango]

This was about 15 years ago.

25 years ago I was outraged at paying 50p for a can of coke in "that there London".

 

[equationgirl]

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I went into the one in Camden with a mate in the middle of Christmas Eve shopping madness. Paid £8 and it was only on leaving that it clicked we'd got halfs for the price. I didn't clock it at the time as it was nice to sit down and relax and £8 for two beers isn't that odd.

For a while I wondered if the bloke had put them through as pints or something.

Was a pretty lame pub and I didn't rate the beer either.

Please could you not use lame in a perjorative context? It's offensive.

 

[salem]

Fair enough, post edited. Had never even considered the origins of the word tbh.

 

[machine cat]

I bought an "Anarchist Alchemist" from the BrewDog in Manchester on Peters Street (?).

Cost me £12; I was wounded.

you what?