Why don't pump clips have the beer name on the back?

[BassoonBrew]

One of the most annoying things* about drinking in your local pub with its ever-changing beer selection is the fact that most of the beer clips don't have the beer name on the BACK. This means that your cheerful, well-meaning, but not that interested in beer serving person doesn't know which beer you've asked for. So we get a bright shiny picture on the front to encourage to try the beer, but if the server can't be bothered to remember which beer is which there's the inevitable exchange:

"Did you mean this one?" (leans over the beer tap)
"No, the Ardvaark Budgie Strangler" (points at the tap)
"..and the other pint?" (points to wrong tap)
"No, the one on the end, the Blind Badger Baiter" (tuts in a slightly grumpy old man way)

* THE most annoying being the staff who can't keep track of "who's next", oh and the beer names that give you absolutely NO clue what the beer is, like the recent rash of Queen/Prince/Cricket/Rugby celebration ales.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Get some sticky labels and a marker pen and offer the uninterested one them next time you visit the pub. :wink:

 

[Brew_DD2]

I collect them and a fair few have the name and sometimes the style and some descriptors written on the back in biro.

Time to find a new pub, or tell the staff to up their game.

 

[MarkMayf]

That's what marker pens are made for.