Station pubs (part two?)

[Haywain]

I meant if it were £10 a pint I'd have walked out.

Apologies, misread your post.

 

[duffield]

It's not like it's real money anymore when you just wave your card around and pints appear magically.

 

[Travelmonkey]

The station pub in Lancaster is a very good one - especially if you like the Lancaster Brewery beers (and I do!). It's not the cheapest but still reasonable value at about £4.50 a pint (though my memories are slightly hazy as to the exact cost)...

I do prefer my smaller breweries where possible, there is a reason most of my big life decisions have been mulled over at BOD Stoke with a pint of Iceberg or White Star.

 

[Travelmonkey]

It's not like it's real money anymore when you just wave your card around and pints appear magically.

Gotta be careful doing that I passed out in a hedge by aldi blabbering I need to find the train station when in Leek one summer evening. My partner was not best pleased driving across the county to rescue me.

 

[xotGD]

Pubs have figured out that if you apply the word "craft" to a pint of keg ale, you can add a couple of quid to the price!

 

[Spamcan81]

Pubs have figured out that if you apply the word "craft" to a pint of keg ale, you can add a couple of quid to the price!

You’re not wrong. All a bit of a con really.

 

[D6130]

Pubs have figured out that if you apply the word "craft" to a pint of keg ale, you can add a couple of quid to the price!

You’re not wrong. All a bit of a con really.

To be fair, I think it's the brewers who add the 'craft beer premium' onto the wholesale prices and the pubs just mark it up to make a minimal profit. As long as there are people who are prepared to pay those prices, the brewers and pubs will continue to charge them. Not my cup of tea - or glass of beer - though!

 

[Haywain]

You’re not wrong. All a bit of a con really.

Proper craft beer, from small brewers, attracts a premium price and goes a long way to keeping those brewers in business. Cask beer, however, has a price celing which many small brewers consider to be artificially low.

 

[Pinus contorta]

Yeah just be careful with the keg beer at the Tite & Locke , they have served me a half pint and charged for 2/3 pint on occasion.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

The Unicorn, near Canterbury West station, and The Ninth Ward, near Farringdon station, both do excellent real ales. And also another vote for the pub opposite Dover Priory, which does likewise...

 

[E502]

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[yorksrob]

Proper craft beer, from small brewers, attracts a premium price and goes a long way to keeping those brewers in business. Cask beer, however, has a price celing which many small brewers consider to be artificially low.

presumably because they can get away with selling it in little cans.

Don't get me wrong, a craft beer in a little can, can be handy, but nothing beats the real thing.

 

[yorksrob]

I've often looked at that space and thought it would make a superb station pub.

In fact I've fantasised about opening one myself (if I'd had a couple of hundred thousand to spare !)

Good for them - I look forward to visiting (assuming they plan to do decent ale).

Just please - in the name of sanity, don't give it to Brewdog !

 

[Travelmonkey]

sadly couldn't get a drink at the little R'ale house at Wellingbourgh on sunday as they were shut when I arrived back at the station,

 

[Travelmonkey]

Don't get me wrong, a craft beer in a little can, can be handy, but nothing beats the real thing.

after a hectic transfer at Wolverhampton & New Street recently (WCML fell over due to a fire @ tile hill) I was glad that the XC trolley had a decent beer, although no substitute for a drink at a station pub,

 

[Haywain]

sadly couldn't get a drink at the little R'ale house at Wellingbourgh on sunday as they were shut when I arrived back at the station,

Closes at 6pm on Sundays, and I've noted it closes earlier if it's quiet (which I fully understand).

 

[Travelmonkey]

Closes at 6pm on Sundays, and I've noted it closes earlier if it's quiet (which I fully understand).

not ideal when I had a advance ticket on the 21:25 train, it is a strange boozer but it is unique, instead I got a hot chocolate on my EMR meridian enjoying a rare opertunity of a intercity call at Wellingbrough,

 

[Jimini]

Public service announcement:

If you find yourself at Blackfriars station and have a bit of a thirst on, don't amble into Doggett's on the South Bank.

£8.00 for a pint of Madri

 

[Haywain]

Public service announcement:

If you find yourself at Blackfriars station and have a bit of a thirst on, don't amble into Doggett's on the South Bank.

£8.00 for a pint of Madri

A combination of central London, Nicholson's pubs and crap beer. The only surprise is that you're surprised.

 

[WestAnglian]

Someone talked dismissively of it in this thread last year but I visited The Draughtsman on Doncaster station a couple of weeks ago and it's rather good. I also liked Steamworks on Seaford Staion.

 

[Jimini]

A combination of central London, Nicholson's pubs and crap beer. The only surprise is that you're surprised.

Fortunately it wasn't me, it was a colleague, but still never good to see the £8 mark being hit!

 

[IanD]

Public service announcement:

If you find yourself at Blackfriars station and have a bit of a thirst on, don't amble into Doggett's on the South Bank.

£8.00 for a pint of Madri

£8.00 for a fake Spanish beer. You could almost understand if they had to ship it in from Madrid but it's brewed in Tadcaster which is much closer I think.

 

[dk1]

£17 for two pints near Battersea Power Station station. Cheeky so and so tried to add a 10% service charge on top after HE said I’ll bring them to your table. No chance

 

[Jimini]

£17 for two pints near Battersea Power Station station. Cheeky so and so tried to add a 10% service charge on top after HE said I’ll bring them to your table. No chance

Crikey, where was that?

 

[dk1]

Crikey, where was that?

I cant remember the name of the establishment sorry. Did a bit of a crawl after ticking off the fairly new branch line. Caught the Clipper back to Embankment afterwards.

 

[Spamcan81]

Public service announcement:

If you find yourself at Blackfriars station and have a bit of a thirst on, don't amble into Doggett's on the South Bank.

£8.00 for a pint of Madri

Wouldn't drink that rubbish if they paid me.

 

[Spamcan81]

Proper craft beer, from small brewers, attracts a premium price and goes a long way to keeping those brewers in business. Cask beer, however, has a price celing which many small brewers consider to be artificially low.

Plenty of small brewers brew proper cask conditioned ale without charging a premium for it.

 

[reb0118]

Public service announcement

£8.00 for a pint of Madri

I'm sure I paid about £19 for two bottles of Scheihalion at the Balmoral (formerly the North British Railway Hotel) above Edinburgh Waverley a few years back.

Just after being caned at the Gleneagles Townhouse for a couple of beers. I made the mistake of leaving a tip on top of the automatic service charge (even though we were sat at the bar).

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Plenty of small brewers brew proper cask conditioned ale without charging a premium for it.

True but a lot of pubs that only serve a token one or two real ales don't tend to keep it very well. That's why these days, unless it's a pub renowned for its real ale I'll tend to go for craft.

For the record, the most I've paid for a pint was £7.35 for a Beavertown Neck Oil the other week and it wasn't even in London!

 

[John Luxton]

True but a lot of pubs that only serve a token one or two real ales don't tend to keep it very well. That's why these days, unless it's a pub renowned for its real ale I'll tend to go for craft.

For the record, the most I've paid for a pint was £7.35 for a Beavertown Neck Oil the other week and it wasn't even in London!

Guinness was £7.00 a pint on PS WAVERLEY at the weekend. I stay at a nice country house hotel in Devon which has three real ales. Just around £5.50 a pint - bargain by comparison.