Nuclear Holocaust Pissheadery

[Rudy]

Just now, Spider said:

It used to be perfectly legal to collect beer in drip trays then pour it back in the barrel at closing time.

I did it all the time at the Alma. People used to mention that the Burtonwood bitter improved as a barrel went on.

Thats mainly because the drip trays had not just bitter, but every liquid that is possible behind the bar of a busy Friday night shift. Lime and orange cordial, Guinness, sweat, spit from a hundred conversations over the top of it, cider, fag ash, you name it. All got tipped back in the barrel at midnight from a bucket that I’d be dubious to even hang my arse over for a shit.

Legal or pub legal?

[Spider]

1 minute ago, Rudy said:

Legal or pub legal?

Burtonwood brewery advised it was ok.

Was good enough for us.

If you’ve ever had their bitter, you’ll know it made fuck all difference.

[Rudy]

Did anyone ever have a fella in the pub  who if you had a quick word with they would go and sort someone out for you for a price?

[MickyD]

26 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Ron Lambton used to mix all the half left pints and drip tray crap into a concoction that was flogged for, 50p a pint upstairs in the glorified youth club that eventually became Club Kiko.

It (Maxims) was also Goodfellas-esque in that produce from Vaux went in the front door and straight out into the backstreet and two doors down to his daughter's cafe.

So many people thought he was a cunt he took a doorman as a minder whenever he had business elsewhere - lest he get twatted. This is all allegedly.

 

 

Ron Lambton, the poison dwarf. Yes, I remember you never saw him without one of his hired-muscle.  Vaux Brewery used to do a Sunderland Brown Ale which pissed all over the Scottish & Newcastle Brewery one.

[Winchester White]

As it is NYD I am treating myself to the CdP the missus bought me for Christmas. 

Fucking hell it is nice. Watching the darts with an eye also on WSM on channel 5. Happy days.

[Traf]

2 hours ago, Rudy said:

WHERE DO YOU GET THAT FROM

They used to sell it in Asda then the Ray guns took over and it doesn’t?

Coincidence? I think not

Railway pub at Moses Gate.

[Traf]

2 hours ago, Spider said:

It used to be perfectly legal to collect beer in drip trays then pour it back in the barrel at closing time.

 

2 hours ago, Rudy said:

Legal or pub legal?

You were only supposed to put beer back into the barrel it came from and if it had been mixed with another beer, it had to be binned.

Beer to be returned had to be filtered into another sterile bucket and then put back into a barrel via another filter and that barrel wasn't to be less than half full.

[Traf]

 

This sat on top of the barrel, you put a filter inside the "bowl" and then tipped your bucket of beer in.
The slim metal tube had holes done the side, so beer re-entered the barrel slowly as not to displace any sediment

[Winchester White]

12 minutes ago, Traf said:

 

This sat on top of the barrel, you put a filter inside the "bowl" and then tipped your bucket of beer in.
The slim metal tube had holes done the side, so beer re-entered the barrel slowly as not to displace any sediment

Aye, my dad would never countenance such a thing. My brother only ever did it with mild.

Is mild even a thing anymore?

[Traf]

5 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Aye, my dad would never countenance such a thing. My brother only ever did it with mild.

Is mild even a thing anymore?

Mild is having a bit of a renaissance, as cask ale rises in popularity again.

[Winchester White]

11 minutes ago, Traf said:

Mild is having a bit of a renaissance, as cask ale rises in popularity again.

I just remember it being rank. But as a kid they all did really.  By the time I was supping, mild had long gone.

[Rudy]

1 hour ago, Winchester White said:

I just remember it being rank. But as a kid they all did really.  By the time I was supping, mild had long gone.

When I worked in a pub I reckon I sold a half a week, Monday afternoon about 1pm to a man who was walking his dog. 

[Spider]

My first bar job was at a working men’s club

They drank something called Toby Light. Drank oceans of it they did the old chaps.

I remember trying it and thinking it tasted like fizzy ovaltine 

Edited January 1, 2022 by Spider

[bolton_blondie]

Hated pouring cask. I'd end up covered in it if the barrel went mid pump. 

[Spider]

1 minute ago, bolton_blondie said:

Hated pouring cask. I'd end up covered in it if the barrel went mid pump. 

 

1 hour ago, Traf said:

 

This sat on top of the barrel, you put a filter inside the "bowl" and then tipped your bucket of beer in.
The slim metal tube had holes done the side, so beer re-entered the barrel slowly as not to displace any sediment

Yeah

Not  in the Alma mate

[Spider]

2 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

Hated pouring cask. I'd end up covered in it if the barrel went mid pump. 

Did you ever tap a barrel?

[Rudy]

3 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

Hated pouring cask. I'd end up covered in it if the barrel went mid pump. 

It’s a skill

touch the bottom of the glass, tilt towards, pull slow but not to slow

[bolton_blondie]

2 minutes ago, Rudy said:

It’s a skill

touch the bottom of the glass, tilt towards, pull slow but not to slow

Yeah I knew how to pour one. I just doesn't wasn't keen on smelling of it all night. 

[Rudy]

2 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

Yeah I knew how to pour one. I just doesn't wasn't keen on smelling of it all night. 

You clean up piss in b/met now 

[bolton_blondie]

1 minute ago, Rudy said:

You clean up piss in b/met now 

I don't tend to pour it all over myself though. 

Also I don't clean up piss. 

[FrancisFogarty]

16 hours ago, Spider said:

It used to be perfectly legal to collect beer in drip trays then pour it back in the barrel at closing time.

I did it all the time at the Alma. People used to mention that the Burtonwood bitter improved as a barrel went on.

Thats mainly because the drip trays had not just bitter, but every liquid that is possible behind the bar of a busy Friday night shift. Lime and orange cordial, Guinness, sweat, spit from a hundred conversations over the top of it, cider, fag ash, you name it. All got tipped back in the barrel at midnight from a bucket that I’d be dubious to even hang my arse over for a shit.

To be fair, they didn't just tip it back, they filtered it through a pair of that big barmaids best tights. It had to be the big barmaids tights as they fit snugly over the funnel.

[Rudy]

In. 
 

in a big way.

[bolton_blondie]

I want a beer, but i also want to be skinny 😭😭😭

[Traf]

Just now, bolton_blondie said:

I want a beer, but i also want to be skinny 😭😭😭

Same, but beer will always win.

I think today will be the 30th (or 31st) day in a row that I've had at least 2 pints.

[bolton_blondie]

1 minute ago, Traf said:

Same, but beer will always win.

I think today will be the 30th (or 31st) day in a row that I've had at least 2 pints.

I very rarely drank in the house before covid. Now i count down to a Friday evening.