Posts Tagged: Pubs and Tavs
What Do We Really Expect From Bar Staff - And Why?
Posted by on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 in - 16 comments
I go to pubs and bars far less than a lot of you. There are five kids in my house and I am 48 living in Canada. Why wouldn't that be the case? Yet when I read about the beer experiences of others like this one reported by Pete it makes me think about what I experience when I do go out - and also …
"Trucks Were Backing Up To Get The Stuff In"
Posted by on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 in - 5 comments
Good article at OpenFile Halifax today touching on a few points of my old home town of Halifax's drinking history. Most neato of all is the click-able photo above of the 1948 version of the Sea Horse Tavern. The name of the place has continued in the underground bar that was my home away from home …
Totally Different To Drinking In The Garage At Your Home
Posted by on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 in - leave a comment
I don't think I have ever seen the basic economics of running a bar actually hit a newspaper as a story. But here it is in New Zealand: • Wages, insurance, rent, rates, taxes, repairs and maintenance, cleaners, fixtures and fittings, heat, light and power, telephone, entertainment and security …
A Good Beer Blog's Guide To Good Beer Manners
Posted by on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 in - 12 comments
At the outset, let me say one thing. A discussion of manners that crosses international boundaries is a mine field. There is no reason that rules in Prague help with situations in California or have any meaning in Leeds. Yet, fools go where angels fear to tread so let's get into it. The Pub …
Book Review: Great British Pubs, Adrian Tierney-Jones
Posted by on Thursday, November 10, 2011 in - 5 comments
I have to say that this book is a bit of a shock. I never knew you could mix so much porn with this degree of authoritative statement. How does one react? I have learned things I will share... yet I have wallowed in the depths of my deepest private imagination. AJT is good. He's like a pusher … read more »
I Drink My Beer At Home Where I Don't Have To Tip
Posted by on Monday, September 12, 2011 in - 18 comments
The Britons are about to tip the scale. Not break a camel's back with a straw. And not move past a tipping point where everything immediately flops and flows from here to there. Just one more little incremental shift that makes assumptions more of the "ass, you and me" sort: • Back in the 1970s …
Kentucky's Hofbrauhaus Wages Criminal War On Crime
Posted by on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 in - 6 comments
OK, this is just weird. I am used to reading reports every day on disorderly bars in one place or another but usually the disorder is caused by drunk patrons, not the staff as the Kentucky Alcoholic Beverages Control Board found this week: • ...most of the disputes were related to searches for …
I Knew I Was In Montreal When I Saw Port From 1963...
Posted by on Monday, August 8, 2011 in - 8 comments
One sign that you are someplace is when you see a wine from the year you were born on a shelf in a retail store. Not like I was going to buy it at over $500 a bottle (oddly, compare) but I was happy to contemplate one of the younger bottles from one of my kids' years of birth even as the Earth's …
A Stinking Hot Day in Sackets Harbor And Watertown
Posted by on Sunday, July 17, 2011 in - 5 comments
A great day in nearby northern New York as I hit both two recently opened good beer spots while also managing the Kingston St. Lawrence Vintage Base Ball Club to a double header victory in the Can-Am tournament. Lest I be charged with bigging myself up, be assured that it was a cheery and well …
Beer Cocktails: The Classic Red Eye Or "Two And Juice"
Posted by on Saturday, July 16, 2011 in - 10 comments
A long time ago when the Earth was green... there was a pub in Halifax called the Midtown Tavern and it had a gentle soul of a waiter named Jerry. It could have been Gerry but I am not sure. It was not Gary. The Midtown is gone after a long going but, I understand, lives on in another shared space …
