Hope you don't mind it's a weaker strength beer."
One of the more unusual comments I have received whilst ordering a round in a pub but it did happen this Sunday.
The Falcon near Clapham Junction station is a fantastic pub for a drink before departing homewards bound after a lazy walk on a Sunday and as many know it does a large and varied range of beers. After a wander around the pumpclips I decided to have St Peter's Mild which has I had seen the clip I knew what I was getting but the barman assumed I was ordering according to the big board they have up which had overstated the abv by 2%.
This got me thinking, now from the barman's comment it sounds like folks regularly pick their beer by strength displayed o0n the board. Odd way of doing it surely though?
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Why didn't he just correct the board?
ReplyDeleteStrength is a factor for me. I rarely buy beers below 4%, because to my taste they tend to be thin and lacking in body. My favourite strength is 4.5% upwards (but not indefinitely upwards).
However, I've worked at a lot of CAMRA beer festivals, and there is a minority that deliberately chooses the strongest beers available: the old Barrow-in-Furness beer festival was the worst I've come across. While there were quite a few social drinkers there, the aspiring drunkards would end up sliding under the tables by 9.30pm. Mind you, if you see Barrow, you'll understand why.
I suspect because he was a shorty like me and couldn't reach. It was changed later by a tall member of staff I assume when the guy came on duty.
ReplyDeleteTrue, I forgot about beer festivals I have seen that happen too. I admit I usually have the strongest beer I fancy early on in a festival so I'm not tempted by it later.
If I have the strongest beer I fancy at a festival and I really like it, I'll still be tempted by it later.
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