jamesg1213

SteveStrummerUK

Glyn Barnes
Thinking about it the price of beer since the early seventies as increased about 20 fold. New albums were about £3.50. The same inflation would make an album £75 and a single £20

Fair point Glyn. Mind you, I would argue that the real cost of beer in the pubs is what has increased. The price of 'supermarket' (especially canned) beer has probably fallen in real terms. I worked in an off licence when I was 18 and the cost of beer we sold was around the same as the boozer, if not slightly higher.
 
Undoubtedly, the price of supermarket alcohol is one of the reasons for the decline in the pub trade in this country over the last 20 or so years.

While we're on All Our Yesterdays, do you remember buying cans from an 'offy' window at the back of the pub after kicking out time? probably Watneys, maybe Whitbread Trophy or Tankard..or Skol Lager

Oh yeah
 
Best offy sales I ever experienced was when I was working in a Davenports boozer. Do you remember the old 'Beer at home means Davenports' adverts? The pub I worked in had a consignment of 4-pint plastic containers delivered (they looked just like large pottery cider tankards) and we would pour draught bitter or mild directly into these containers so punters could carry on drinking our fine brews at home (or on the way home!).
 
It was working in this particular boozer that I discovered my love of Indian cuisine (rather ironically, the place is now an Indian/Tibetan restaurant). A couple of the regulars lived over in Malvern and we had a cracking relationship in that to save them a costly taxi fare, I would drive them home after I finished work. In return for the lift, en route we'd make a beeline for the Tandoori restaurant in Malvern Link where they treated me to a meal. It cost them much less than the taxi fare and I got a free feed.... perfick
 
Edit - just remembered that round these parts they used to call the off-licence counter of a pub 'The Outdoor', as in "Nip down the outdoor and fetch me 20 Bennies"
 
Edit 2 - the (real) off licence I worked in actually sold 'draught' sherry (dry and sweet) out of a plastic barrel out back. Customers would roll up with an empty bottle and order sherry (in multiples of half pints) to take home.
 
 
 
 
 
 

SteveStrummerUK
... 
 ...
  ...
 

 
We need to get you a ticket to Portland. The micro brews thing here is exceptional, and there are so many choices, that you can get dizzy deciding which one to try!

Moshkito

SteveStrummerUK
... 
 ...
  ...
 

 
We need to get you a ticket to Portland. The micro brews thing here is exceptional, and there are so many choices, that you can get dizzy deciding which one to try!

Are we talking ale? Cask conditioned?

I remember going into a sawmill several years ago and asked for some lengths of 2 x 2
 
I was told, "we're metric now - you'll have to convert it"
 
So I said ok, can I please have 8 metres of 50mm x 50mm
 
The response was - "oh no, only the cross section is sold in metric, the length is still in Imperial." 
 
So I went home with 25 feet of 50mm x 50mm
 
True story.

SteveStrummerUK

Moshkito

SteveStrummerUK
... 
 ...
  ...
 

 
We need to get you a ticket to Portland. The micro brews thing here is exceptional, and there are so many choices, that you can get dizzy deciding which one to try!

Are we talking ale? Cask conditioned?

Microbreweries in the US are pretty much ALL Keg Conditioned Lagers.
 
https://www.google.com/search?q=microbrewery&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=965&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir09uhz7TOAhXCRCYKHcDoARgQ_AUICSgE
 

SteveStrummerUK
 
 



 
Best offy sales I ever experienced was when I was working in a Davenports boozer. Do you remember the old 'Beer at home means Davenports' adverts?
 
 

 
Of course, and without Googling...
 
''Beer at home means Davenports
That's the beer, lots of cheer
The finest brew with hops and yeast
Turns a snack into a feast''
 
Do I get a Sad Old Git Badge?
 

SteveStrummerUK

Moshkito

SteveStrummerUK
... 
 ...
  ...
 

 
We need to get you a ticket to Portland. The micro brews thing here is exceptional, and there are so many choices, that you can get dizzy deciding which one to try!

Are we talking ale? Cask conditioned?

Best post by Pedro evah! 
 
By that I mean he's spot on.  We have more exceptional micro brews in the Portland Metro Area than France has wines.
 
And we're talking EVERYTHING!
 
One of my favorites was the 30th Anniversary Younger's Special Bitter (a Rogue beer).  It came in really cool bottles (of which I've saved a couple) or you could also get it straight from the cask at the Horse Brass Pub (which the late Don Younger owned and which has a sister pub, the Prince of Wales, in London).  Needless to say I have a soft-spot for the Horse Brass since that's the place I played darts out of and, in only about ten years, I have more of my name on dart accomplishments hanging from the walls than anyone else. 
 
 

Bristol_Jonesey
The response was - "oh no, only the cross section is sold in metric, the length is still in Imperial." 

Carpet shops sell carpet by the square metre, fair enough. I measure my room in metres and give the dimensions to the salesman to calculate how many square metres I need (I already know the answer but you have to humour them.)
This guy is at least 20 years younger than me. He converts my measurments to yards, calculates the number of square yards, then converts back to metres - I kid you not!
 

jamesg1213

SteveStrummerUK
 
 



 
Best offy sales I ever experienced was when I was working in a Davenports boozer. Do you remember the old 'Beer at home means Davenports' adverts?
 
 

 
Of course, and without Googling...
 
''Beer at home means Davenports
That's the beer, lots of cheer
The finest brew with hops and yeast
Turns a snack into a feast''
 
Do I get a Sad Old Git Badge?
 

Why yes, yes you do

Strummy,
 
I am trying to figure out from your original post whether you prefer metric or whatever you call what we do over here.
 
Cheers,
 
Bert