Carling or Carlsberg?

[DifferentClass]

Shandy.

 

[jt64]

And all these people saying "get real ale" - there is no way of keeping it drinkable on tap when you're going to use it once a week. It'd have to be bottles.

Why? The massive advantage of a football match is:

- you know you will have a large number of potential customers in one place at the same time
- you know exactly what time that is

It's exactly like the beer fest we were all at last month. You know that customers will start arriving at a certain time on a Saturday, have it arrive on site so that the beer is settled and ready to serve for when you open.

I mean there may be technical issues in terms of keeping the stuff at the right temperature (primarily thinking of the Kop here) given it's not been done before, but the point is this isn't a pub where you've got potentially uncertain trade. You just need to keep it drinkable for a very well defined 3-4 hour timespan, which once the correct infrastructure is in place should not be rocket science.

 

[TonyAgana]

...once the correct infrastructure is in place should not be rocket science.

Unless things have changed dramatically since I worked there as a student in the 90s, any kind of science would be a challenge.

 

[essexblade87]

Jaipur on keg please

 

[essexblade87]

Real ale would be a big challenge for football ground unless bottled, could do (Craft style) Keg Beers no problem though if the cost wasn't too high

 

[WhiteRoseBlade]

This is kinda amusing to read as someone who has no interest in beer, I'm very much a cider person! Don't usually have it at football though - probably will at some point if I have train delays and need to de-stress ahead of kick off sometime...

All that said, I do sympathise if you don't like the drinks on offer, I am quite picky about food (unlike the person earlier in the thread I do like Pukka Pies, thankfully) and having to decide between having something I don't like (exacerbated by fairly major texture issues I have) or nothing at all is never fun

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Can't they do these ? Mexican Bulldogs - very nice.

 

[metalblade]

WTF would anyone drink Carlsberg or Carling in the ground when they can get it a quid cheaper in the many boozers nearby, why would anyone drink either when they can get Farmers Blonde or some other real ale nearby. Carling or Carlsberg = rat piss or dog piss.

 

[Vintage Shirt]

Be easy to stick in a pale ale in keg and sell it. I bloody would.

Interestingly a lot of baseball teams have started selling beer from smaller suppliers why not give a choice?

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/04/02/best-baseball-stadiums-for-craft-beer-in-us/

Nice bit of Kipling or cannonball at halftime. How excellent would that be.

 

[Linz]

Jaipur on keg please

They'll never do that - Jaipur is fighting juice.

Imagine all the cokeheads on the Kop after a skinfull of Jaipur at half time. It'd be carnage.

 

[Clarkey87]

You won't get me paying over £3 for crap in a plastic glass when there's so much choice outside the ground. Most people are the same.

If only it was £3 at the ground! £3.70 against Newcastle. It's shocking as it goes up every year, the quality goes down and the service......well don't get me started on that!! If I ran a business like they run then bars at the lane then I would have lost it years ago.

they were charging £4.50 a pint at Silverstone at the weekend!!!

Meet are not far from that, give it another season or two at the current rate they put it up and we will soon be charging that.

To be honest. No one at the club even listens/cares when it's been raised about prices ans quality of service/product before. Unfortunately, I highly doubt anything will change to improve any of this any time soon.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

WTF would anyone drink Carlsberg or Carling in the ground when they can get it a quid cheaper in the many boozers nearby, why would anyone drink either when they can get Farmers Blonde or some other real ale nearby. Carling or Carlsberg = rat piss or dog piss.

To prevent unexpected, unwanted and unnecessary sobriety (a common illness that can affect us all. Be on the look out for early symptoms! In this context Carlsberg/ing should be seen as first line preventive healthcare).

 

[Clarkey87]

Whoever it is that runs the bars and beer contracts at the lane is missing a trick anyway, why not get Magnet on? It's still brewed under license isn't it? (Must be as I saw it in a pub not so long back).

To be fair anything other than that IPA crap they serve at the minute as well, it's not helped by the fact it tastes like they don't clean the beer lines regularly between matches either.

 

[oaklandrdblade]

The problem with ale is more to do with pulling enough of it properly in a short time span. Yes I know it's not that difficult if the staff are trained but in some of the better ale pubs service can be very different from one member of staff to another.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

I wish they'd still have people walking around selling bottles of beer (preferably ale, but I'd settle for chilled lager). There's bugger all chance getting a pint in some parts of the ground/games at half-time unless you leave 5 or even 10 minutes before the whistle. I like a beer at a game but I'd rather not risk missing what could potentially be a once-in-a-life time goal (or even just a tap in, tbh!).

I haven't seen anyone selling bottles for a long, long time. The demand is obviously there, you'd think a few extra members of staff would pay for themselves? (not to mention the reduced queues at food points, which would allow them to serve more food).

 

[Jehovah]

I think the main problem with serving real ale in a football ground is that its tastes like utter shit.

 

[Davie Blade]

Both GAY ales.

Older Use. having or showing a merry, lively mood:
bright or showy

 

[Leonardo Green]

I think they need to start serving something a little stronger.

 

[Dkc]

Kolsch please.

Why is the choice between Carlsberg and Carling anyway? As far as I can tell they both taste exactly the same - weak, gassy shit. (The Carlsberg in Denmark is decent by the way but the Danes drink it all themselves).