: Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:46 pm  

Stand-Offish wrote:

Shush!
I wish I had a video of me walking down the steps from the bar in the sky with a full pint all the way down the concrete steps to my seat on the front row.
Health and safety or what.
Scary.
Another good reason for opening the concourse bar.

I agree but it seems to be strangely cheaper by 20p in the finery of the bar in the sky for the J.S. How and indeed why is this ? does anyone know ?

: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:23 pm  

Wilf Grimshaw wrote:

Ah But isn't the Barrow away game on a Friday 7.30 K O.?

That's different then May be in business after all!

: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:59 pm  

My Name's Dick wrote:

I agree but it seems to be strangely cheaper by 20p in the finery of the bar in the sky for the J.S. How and indeed why is this ? does anyone know ?

It's a good question.
I went to a do in the restaurant in December and John's was cheaper then.
But on the concourse it is the same price as lager.
Dodgy or what.
They're taking for us for mugs, pure and simple.

Don't buy the muck at those prices and make them lower the prices.
But we won't work together.
Typical saddo Britons.
We would stand by and let the lovers walk all over us before doing something about it.

I've made my mind up now, I will never buy another pint in the Keepmoat, and would urge everybody to do the same until the robbing b@stards bring the price down.

[Wanderer]

: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:10 pm  

Stand-Offish wrote:

While our CAMRA brethren were hiding away in the Tut and the Little Pluff drinking weak beer, I was drinking mester's beer at the Gatehouse.
Wentworth Brewery's Rampant Gryphon at 6.2% abv, a session beer for serious alcoholics like me who want to live the part of a beer-fueled bummer.

I own up, I was in the Tut before the game - Dr Okells IPA and Old Mill Brewerys Old Curiosity were on this week. I did venture into the Gateshouse after the match but if I'm honest I can't remember what I picked.

: Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:03 pm  

WANDERER wrote:

I own up, I was in the Tut before the game - Dr Okells IPA and Old Mill Brewerys Old Curiosity were on this week. I did venture into the Gateshouse after the match but if I'm honest I can't remember what I picked.

Well it might have been Rampant Gryphon if that's the case.

[Wanderer]

: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:07 pm  

I've had that before and like it. I have a feeling that I tried something I'd not had before but then forgot it's name. To be fair I was probably on pint number 8 or 9 by then.

[Wanderer]

: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:09 pm  

Had a nice pint of Courage Directors in the Scarborough at Tickhill on Sunday. I do like that one!

: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:21 pm  

Had a few pints of Leeds Brewery Midnight Bell on Friday night at the Scarboro' Hotel in Leeds after watching the excellent Ian Hunter in concert. Really nice, strong mild at 4.8%.

: Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:28 pm  

For those of you who like bottled real ale, and I know it's not to everyone's taste, I happened upon the largest selection I have ever seen at Booth's Supermarket in Knutsford, Cheshire over the weekend, many of them at £1 a bottle.

I came away with 14 different varieties and left at least another 100 different ales on the shelf. Didn't count the number of brewers represented but there must have been at least 50.

It's time they opened one in South Yorkshire

Just noticed tigertots has one near him

: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:02 am  

seuseuwho? wrote:

For those of you who like bottled real ale, and I know it's not to everyone's taste, I happened upon the largest selection I have ever seen at Booth's Supermarket in Knutsford, Cheshire over the weekend, many of them at £1 a bottle.

I came away with 14 different varieties and left at least another 100 different ales on the shelf. Didn't count the number of brewers represented but there must have been at least 50.

It's time they opened one in South Yorkshire

Just noticed tigertots has one near him

Booths in Ilkley is the dogs gonads for bottled beer, like you say plenty at 99p. I tend not to drink beer at home though, but I do tend to sample a chilled pale ale or three in the garden of a summers evening.