End of an era looming

[Tusker]

Closing time in Britain as pub culture faces anti-drink lobbyists - Saturday Extra - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Inevitable I suppose. Pity. Got many fond memories of some of those pubs.

Regards
Max P

[460cixy]

Bloody wowsers nothing better then a beer in a local pub

[dullbird]

I don't even drink but I used to love going down to the local to hang out with everyone

Can't beat the atmosphere in a local UK pub

[p38arover]

I can't remember the last time I went to a pub. Wait, it must have been before 2002 when I took redundancy from Telstra. I've never really liked pubs. Too many people, too noisy, and, years ago, too many smokers. Is smoking still allowed in pubs?

[Chucaro]

The last time that I went to one was the Nags Head in Glebe back in the later 1908's

[p38arover]

The last time that I went to one was the Nags Head in Glebe back in the later 1908's

You're older than I thought, Arthur. That's 106 years ago!

[Chucaro]

You're older than I thought, Arthur. That's 106 years ago!

Bugger!! I forgot again to engage the brain before hit the keyboard, 1980's

[nesjules]

I've been in Australia 25 years.

The only thing I miss are the pubs and the beer.

There are very few equivalents in Oz to an English Pub and nowadays you can't make money selling beer.
One thing that really annoys me is going into a pub just for a drink and finding every single table laid for food.

There's a pretend "English Pub" between Sydenham & Melton in Victoria, and the last time I tried to have a drink in there I was greeted at the door by a waitress who asked me if she could help me. All I wanted was to walk up to the bar and order a beer - not possible there apparently, you have to be assigned a table!

Holgates in Woodend is superb however - especially the ESB, seved at cellar temperature.

Cheers

Jules

[DieselDan]

Holgates in Woodend is superb however - especially the ESB, seved at cellar temperature.

Cheers

Jules

Yeah the ESB at the Holgate brewery is excellent stuff, from a proper old fashioned hand pump/beer engine and, like you said, served at cellar temps so it's cold, but not so bloody cold that you can't taste it!

I spent my 40th in there last year, sat at the bar all night with a few mates, drinking excellent beer, talking **** and putting the world to rights!! Top night and just what a pub is for

[85 county]

sheesh, pommy pubs are horrible, to many poms. ice cubes in the beer ?? wtf

atleast in wales you can talk about rugby with the locals. beer is still crap though