The Apprentice - beer challenge

[artyb]

they couldnt add up...
and were trying selling their beer for twice the price of others at the beer festival...

not a clue about business just some idiots that rattle out stupid sayings...

 

[andyakameatloaf]

not a clue about business just some idiots that rattle out stupid sayings...

My personal favourite was the guy who compared himself to Napolean, and then Alan Sugar's reaction.
"You do know what happened to Napolean though. He got conquered".

 

[Crastney]

half of them went to 'the kent beer festival' in a pub in south west london, and were surprised that it wasn't bigger (I'd be more surprised that it wasn't in Kent) - the other half went o St Albans for a beer festival, a proper one, and tried to sell the beer at £4 a pint, half's at £2.60, or one off special bottles at £4 - when the custom slowed down (as it was a lot more expensire than other beers) - they went to The South Bank, central London, SE1 - where people expect to pay £4 a pint, and dropped the prices down below £3, and then ended up selling at £1 a pint just to clear the stock!! - stupid bloomin idiots! The women ended up in a wine bar in Richmond, trying to sell bottled flavoured beer to the customers - flavoured beer in a wine bar! Give me strength!

 

[anthonyUK]

they couldnt add up...
and were trying selling their beer for twice the price of others at the beer festival...

not a clue about business just some idiots that rattle out stupid sayings...

And not having a sample only an empty bottle :shock:
You couldn't make it up.

 

[critch]

what lothesome human beings. im glad i dont normally watch that cr@p.

as it was i could only stomach 15 minutes :sick:

 

[brewtim]

There's an hour of my life I won't lose watching this :|

 

[Brewbob]

And not having a sample only an empty bottle :shock:
You couldn't make it up.

What annoyed me was they actually thought they made beer , NO you bloody well never you added some nasty flavourings to a beer.

:thumb: to both those quotes, I was slackjawed, that one of them called themselves the brewer, and then to turn up with an empty bottle and saying well you can sniff it to er imagine the flavour, it was priceless. What p's me off is the fact that one of these f***wits will be paid £250,000 at the end, I wouldn't give them minimum wage at present...

 

[rpt]

The Apprentice is the best comedy on TV. Not sure why anyone expected anything else!

It was at Banks's brewery in Wolverhampton which is owned by Marston's, hence the sight of the Hobgoblin van or cask (Wychwood's is also owned by Marston's).

 

[Stone Cold]

yeah load of ****! few flashes of a counter pressure beer gun bottle filler in action

 

[Kinleycat]

The apprentice since series one has gone from big business to big brother and is basically car crash TV now.
As for the brewing aspect, even my limited knowledge exceeded anything the nupties managed and I'd never dream of calling myself a brewer per see!!
As for chocolate and orange beer being new, Fernandes black voodoo has been kicking about for a bit now!!!
Lord Sugar!! You're fired!!

 

[critch]

theres quite a few choc n orange stouts......

 

[Moley]

It was at Banks's brewery in Wolverhampton which is owned by Marston's, hence the sight of the Hobgoblin van or cask (Wychwood's is also owned by Marston's).

Strictly speaking, Banks's (a.k.a. Wolverhampton & Dudley) own Marston's, but use that as their main trading name. They also own Wychwood, Jennings and Ringwood.

 

[rpt]

It was at Banks's brewery in Wolverhampton which is owned by Marston's, hence the sight of the Hobgoblin van or cask (Wychwood's is also owned by Marston's).

Strictly speaking, Banks's (a.k.a. Wolverhampton & Dudley) own Marston's, but use that as their main trading name. They also own Wychwood, Jennings and Ringwood.

Actually, strictly speaking, Marston's plc own these breweries. It changed its name from Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries plc in 2007.

 

[critch]

marstons is just the main brand name, it was aquired by w&d in 1999. whychwood was aquired when they recently bought refresh, they own jennings, ringwood, banks, hansons, mansfield and brakspear. they also make innis and gunn manns and duchy original stuff too

 

[rpt]

marstons is just the main brand name, it was aquired by w&d in 1999. whychwood was aquired when they recently bought refresh, they own jennings, ringwood, banks, hansons, mansfield and brakspear. they also make innis and gunn manns and duchy original stuff too

No, you can't out pedant me! The company is called Marston's plc.

 

[Leeds Chimp]

just watched it and some good points....but they let themself down

 

[operon]

Watched this , they're all ****, no sample or beer clips. Other team couldn't add, really scraping the bottom of the cask now

 

[Megaross]

The people on the apprentice remind me of so many people on my course (business), impractical useless tossers but somehow still cocky as hell.

We had to do a "graduate enterprise" thing this year and start a small business, people in our team come along with ideas to put forward, meeting went a bit like this:
"How about a cookbook"
"Why?"
"Umm, I dunno, students buy cookbooks"
"Do they? I thought most students were rubbish cooks, there's loads of books like on the market already, why should I buy your cookbook?"
"Umm, I dunno"
"Anyone got an idea which isn't stupid?"

What seems to always happen is they don't actually look at anything from a business perspective, they just think everything will work due to some sort of over inflated opinion of their ideas, do first, think later, it's the same on the show. Then they find it amazing their businesses are dead in the water.

 

[cutnrun]

Don't worry Megaross nothing changes when you get into a company!

People seem to think BBB - Bull Baffels Brains

There are people where i work at the moment that have such an inflated opinion of them selves that they argure till the are blue in the face that they KNOW black is white. If you back down eventually something goes wrong that delays something or costs a lot of money and suddenly it is your fault as they said the exact opposite of that. They are so convinced of this as they have the title manager of this or that and because of that title they must be right, why else would they be allowed to make the decisions!

:evil:

 

[Megaross]

Oh don't I know it, amount of arguments I've had with people who think they know it all, and aren't prepared to listen to anyone else. Or if it's not them it's the guys who are completely afraid of confrontation, they'll just agree with anything regardless of how bloody daft it is.

Best job I ever had was night shifts in a 24 hour library, because aside from the odd security guy doing a walkthrough I was the only one in the building who worked there, ahhh peace at last. :lol: