spoons pubs

[cask is best]

Heard this before and heard it last night whilst in a spoons pub. Do they or do they not sell nearly out of date beer. Confused

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

I've heard that before...... :hmm: :hmm:

BB

 

[orange]

I've heard that too, Which is why they get it at a good price. I've never had a bad pint from them and sell by dates are taken with a pinch of salt.

 

[chrig]

Do we all try to drink beer the second it lands in the bottle / barrel or something?

I've heard this many times before but its never made me ill, or more ill than my usual drinking habits. And always just suspected that being a large chain they would already have a decent level of buying power without collecting all the near sell by date beer for their pubs.

 

[DirtyCaner]

I've had some disgusting pints from spoons pubs over the years. Not many right enough, but a few so bad that I left them on the bar when they wouldn't give me something else.

I've also heard that they get their beer and sell it cheap cos it's close to date. But that's ok, it's generally good. You get what you pay for etc...

DirtyC

 

[cask is best]

I've heard that too, Which is why they get it at a good price. I've never had a bad pint from them and sell by dates are taken with a pinch of salt.

Ive just finished some yoguarts off in our house a month and a half out of date. Nowt wrong with em

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

I've heard that too, Which is why they get it at a good price. I've never had a bad pint from them and sell by dates are taken with a pinch of salt.

Ive just finished some yoguarts off in our house a month and a half out of date. Nowt wrong with em

Give it 24 hours and report back... Lol

BB

 

[RobWalker]

They can turn it over quickly I guess. Casks sell out in a day or two, and the good part is if you do get a duff pint, you know they won't fuss over changing it...

 

[Grunaki]

I remember back in about 1995, Weatherspoons used to have a dirt cheap ale on all the time.. Back then it was Wm Younger's Draught Bitter that was about £1.15 a pint all day long.. (It was ****, but it was a pint in a pub and I was on sh**e money back then..)

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

Nothing wrong with that...Ive had some glorious pints from Spoons also had some dreadful ones...As a CAMRA member you get 50p off a pint vouchers for Spoons which makes getting ****** really really cheap

 

[gl0ckage]

I actually work for spoons they never sell out of date ales, they are sometimes close to dates but it's usually in a week and with a barrel usually lasting a day. It's all good, we have to sticker barrels with rack dates, tap dates and an internal BBF which is 2 days after being on sale. If it reaches that then it's supposed to be discounted, like we had one running out on the 26th, put price down to £1.49. Sold out on the 25th.

But my biggest gripe is the "it's cloudy it's going to give me gut rot" people when it tastes perfectly fine, I've never had a sour ale from a spoons, same can't be said for other pubs.

 

[graysalchemy]

There you go a sound answer. Also if you think about it beer in a barrel spoils when it has been opened if a barrel is not lasting more than a day then the beer will be fresh but obviously not green like most ale in pubs and also the high turnover would probably make it a better pint than some that has been sat in a pub for a week.

:thumb:

 

[PD]

as an aside.
We have a local in the town that for 40 years was a dive ! Not a nice place to visit, full of druggies heavily chained motorbike gangs fights were common place ( 2 murders there in last 10 years ) It was a name to conjure fear.
Spoons have taken it over, re vamped it and changed every aspect . They even have good security staff on at all times.
My wife and daughter called in for a coffee the other afternoon.... :shock: Sound pub now and a pleasure to eat and drink there.

Mind you I wouldn't leave me car in car park !

 

[cask is best]

I've heard that too, Which is why they get it at a good price. I've never had a bad pint from them and sell by dates are taken with a pinch of salt.

Ive just finished some yoguarts off in our house a month and a half out of date. Nowt wrong with em

Give it 24 hours and report back... Lol

BB

Although longer than two days but still no ill effects.

 

[cask is best]

I've had some disgusting pints from spoons pubs over the years. Not many right enough, but a few so bad that I left them on the bar when they wouldn't give me something else.

I've also heard that they get their beer and sell it cheap cos it's close to date. But that's ok, it's generally good. You get what you pay for etc...

DirtyC

A decent landlord would/should change a bad pint without to many questions other than whats wrong and maybe drawing off a small sample for himself to try. If that ever happened to me they would loose my custom and i would let every Tom Dick and Harry know how they traet customers.

 

[gl0ckage]

If a customer complains we swap ale no problem even if they make up stuff and because they don't like the pint say it's sour, we taste a sample and even though we taste it and know we are right we will change it because that's what spoons wants us to do. Easiest none hassle way tbh, it's not my money being wasted so no need to play sherlock Holmes with a customer.

 

[RokDok]

Never had a bad pint in my Spoons.

Got all my bottles from them too.

Hats off to them.

RD

 

[Grunaki]

I've had some disgusting pints from spoons pubs over the years. Not many right enough, but a few so bad that I left them on the bar when they wouldn't give me something else.

I've also heard that they get their beer and sell it cheap cos it's close to date. But that's ok, it's generally good. You get what you pay for etc...

DirtyC

A decent landlord would/should change a bad pint without to many questions other than whats wrong and maybe drawing off a small sample for himself to try. If that ever happened to me they would loose my custom and i would let every Tom Dick and Harry know how they traet customers.

A pub I went to once made a big deal over changing a pint of bloody PEPSI because it tasted of line cleaner! :?

The woman behind the bar was all "blah blah, well other people have drunk it and not complained, so there's nothing wrong with it!" I passed it to my mate, he took a sip and was all "that's gross that is!" So she begrudgingly poured another one, which was OK, but still - Pepsi is pennies a frigging gallon (despite the fact that they charge you as much as a pint of ale in the UK, which is a bloody rip-off! Most pubs and restaurants in Canada give you free refills if you're drinking pop).