I used to love pubs, went every weekend with my mates and sometimes during the week to watch football. All day opening killed pubs, people don't go out at the same time anymore so pubs are no longer 'buzzing ' like they used to be. The ridiculous price of a pint doesn't help and proper pubs have been transformed into sports bars or restaurants, traditional pubs are hard to find.. I very rarely go out to the pub for the evening with mates now, usually a couple on tne way to football and a couple afterwards. I have a few beers or some of my homemade wine at home at the weekend.
@RodneyTrotter1 I think they started to go downhill when the government introduced the no smoking law in pubs. Smokers having to go outside for a cigarette must have felt their civil liberties were being taken away. I remember my dad hating the change. He used to like making his own beer too. Can't remember what it was but years ago he used to like to drink Watney's Red.
This was his and it's now on my keyring. The little tankard has Whitbread on it.
@mossyboots I was a smoker at the time too and hated the ban, now I like it and think it should be banned in all public places, including outside. I remember walking into pubs etc and seeing that hovering cloud floating everywhere, along with the smell it was atmospheric and added to the atmosphere of pubs. They're a bit too sterile now and the lighting is all wrong, no cosy feel anymore. I make beer too, just from cans of concentrate and a bag of sugar. Did you ever try your dad's? Watney's Red Barrell, I never drank it but it was always one of the beers on offer on the bar, I think it came in bottles too. There's a video in Youtube about all the forgotten beers and that's one of them, it was very popular until another brewery took over and changed the recipe, killed it overnight. I still remember the 70s advert for Whibread "big head" Trophy Bitter, the pint that thinks it's a quart 🤣
@RodneyTrotter1 I never tried my dads but I like a Guinness now and then because my nan used to drink it, nostalgia makes it taste better. But something made me wonder what it does to your insides because if you have any leftover (as if) it makes a good cleaning product for copper pots and pans leaving a good shine to them. So never waste a perfectly good Guinness! .😆
@mossyboots I absolutely love Guinness! It shrinks the waistline on my clothes so I have to drink it in moderation. it was my dad's favourite drink too, he let me have a taste once when he used to take me and my sister for pop and crisps in the beer garden, i was about 8 at the time and hated it, he told me I'd like it when I'm older and he as right! I bought one of those Nitrosurge gadgets for Guinness, it says you have to use special cans for it which cost a lot more but I found a trick to make the ordinary draught cans work. It makes it even nicer, closer to how it is in a pub. If you have a Lidl near you they sell pint size draught cans for around the same price as the standard size ones. I'll remember the cleaning tip for my camping pots! 😀👍
