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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Jezza on October 15, 2018, 01:12:08 PM
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Tasted really really bad on Saturday even allowing for a plastic cup.....like it had been syphoned through a toilet...
Hopefully this is a sign that the club are at last focussing on the footballing side rather than the retirement project but it would be good if we could multi task and get everything spot on....
Oh and I'm speaking for a friend...wouldn't catch me drinking that pi55 before I get called wuss and we go all off topic.....
The thwaites was fine fyi
Always a shame when I only recognise a handful of people in the bar afterwards...
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There is no such thing as a decent pint of Foster's. You'll be looking for a tasty McDonald's next ffs.
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There is no such thing as a decent pint of Foster's. You'll be looking for a tasty McDonald's next ffs.
It’s all a matter of opinion. I’m a lager drinker and it’s never been the best quality in the CSH.
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There's low quality and there is tasting like pooh......seriously disgusting aftertaste....
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It's never been a great pint at the club, even before the Sports Hall was built, the Fosters was often flat in the Noel White Suite. I suspect it may be because we don't pull many through throughout the week? So the barrel sits in between match days. I've no idea though. I opt for the cider.
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Would be good for the club to modernise and have a 'trendier' lager on tap - perhaps even just Amstel - as well as some sort of IPA.
Fosters and San Miguel is a rubbish choice in this day and age.
Then again, if the problem lies with the kegs not being pulled through the week, it's probably not worth having anything too nice.
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The Wainwrights is consistently good, there again I don't like lager unless I have no choice. I only drink lager on the continent, they don't sell bitter as it is mainly unique to the UK.
Having said that, cask ale seems to only nowadays be drunk by the older generation such as myself. My kids prefer lager or Vodka shots etc. Cask ale is what I call proper beer. A lot of Manchester's bars do not sell cask ale; I always take great delight in asking for it, and then querying why they don't sell it.
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It's never been a great pint at the club, even before the Sports Hall was built, the Fosters was often flat in the Noel White Suite. I suspect it may be because we don't pull many through throughout the week? So the barrel sits in between match days. I've no idea though. I opt for the cider.
When we had Kronenbourg 1664 in the Noel White suite, I used to find it was an acceptable alternative to my preferred real ale. I've never forgiven Watney's for stopping production of Webster's and using Halifax, a brewery with a natural spring, to produce Fosters. I don't mind decent lager, but Fosters doesn't meet the description (buy a proper "tinnie" in Earls Court and you'll see the massive difference between the real thing and the gnat's pee produced for our market).
Even so, I'll accept it's better than the chemicals in a glass that's marketed as Carling !
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Lager...or, as my mum used to call it, "P*ss 'n' wind!"
She had a way with words my deal old mum!
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Sounds like they don't clean the beer lines properly. On the subject of Wainwright's, why doesn't the club sell a beer from one of the huge number of Greater Manchester breweries rather than one brewed in Wolverhampton? Ashton United have their own cask beer. I'm sure that someone would be willing to brew or re-badge a beer for Alty.
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The "quality" of the Fosters............,lost for words. Pour it all into the sea.
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Dunham Massey Brewery up the road. They even do an Alty Ale..
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There is no such thing as a decent pint of Foster's. You'll be looking for a tasty McDonald's next ffs.
First sentence could not be more factually correct. The same can be said for most of the nitro-keg mass produced tasteless lagers (purposely served too cold of course so there no chance of picking up any taste) available in the UK. There are are very few quality draft lagers available - anything good seems to come in a bottle.
In my youth, if you asked for a lager in a pub or a miners welfare, the landlord almost certainly asked you if you wanted it in a "ladies glass" ;)
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Dunham Massey Brewery up the road. They even do an Alty Ale..
Brought half a dozen bottles of various ales back up north with me from when I holidayed down there a couple of months ago!
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I assumed, perhaps wrongly that the CSH sells Wainwrights because the club has done some kind of sponsorship deal with Bank's. If you think back to the Hednesford game and the beer festival half the beers on sale were from the Banks portfolio.
On our travels I've noticed other clubs are more imaginative in their beer selection and it often sells out whilst the game is on.
By the way bitter is very last decade. Even the stuff the club sells is called Wainwright Golden Ale.
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Been a bugbear of mine for years the range of ale we sell. Obviously I know we’ll be locked into various contracts but there’s 4 separate venues under a mile from our ground in the Good Beer Guide, including the award winning Costello’s. Even if it’s a limited range of bottles from them that once there gone, there gone, that would be an improvement on the current situation. Think a better range of beer would be part of the overall package of improving the matchday experience.
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I also suspect our contract won’t include bottle bars and other areas of the ground
Mainly because the snack bars were t permitted to sell alcohol when the contract is signed and package and draft contracts are usually separate entities (even if there is cross over between the two)
Our first phone call when the contract is up for tender should be to Heineken. So many brands in their portfolio including the aptly branded red stripe, who I’m sure could be convinced to do some pretty slick activations
It’s a pretty poor contract we’ve signed for it to last this long - CSH funding or no CSH funding
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What happened to the bottle bar on Saturday?
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I also suspect our contract won’t include bottle bars and other areas of the ground
Mainly because the snack bars were t permitted to sell alcohol when the contract is signed and package and draft contracts are usually separate entities (even if there is cross over between the two)
Our first phone call when the contract is up for tender should be to Heineken. So many brands in their portfolio including the aptly branded red stripe, who I’m sure could be convinced to do some pretty slick activations
It’s a pretty poor contract we’ve signed for it to last this long - CSH funding or no CSH funding
Even just having cans of Red Stripe in the firdge (which I suspect a fair few would opt for) would speed things up at half time. The profit margins involved are great as well I assume.
In the era of Brewdog (as much as I don't like them specifically) we definitely need some sort of IPA on the go.
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I also suspect our contract won’t include bottle bars and other areas of the ground
Mainly because the snack bars were t permitted to sell alcohol when the contract is signed and package and draft contracts are usually separate entities (even if there is cross over between the two)
Our first phone call when the contract is up for tender should be to Heineken. So many brands in their portfolio including the aptly branded red stripe, who I’m sure could be convinced to do some pretty slick activations
It’s a pretty poor contract we’ve signed for it to last this long - CSH funding or no CSH funding
Even just having cans of Red Stripe in the firdge (which I suspect a fair few would opt for) would speed things up at half time. The profit margins involved are great as well I assume.
In the era of Brewdog (as much as I don't like them specifically) we definitely need some sort of IPA on the go.
Cans of Red Stripe would be a godsend, and a particularly apt name as Hashtag says. Sign me up.
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you can only drink red stripe if its been left in a bucket of water with ice for three hours.................that's how the faulkners used to sell it and that is the way it should be served 8) 8) 8)
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Is anyone else annoyed by the time it takes to get a drink of any description at half time? Can’t we pay some more people
To work behind the bar?
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Is anyone else annoyed by the time it takes to get a drink of any description at half time? Can’t we pay some more people
To work behind the bar?
Absolutely - I hardly bother any longer as it's so bad (so I don't get to comment on how bad the Foster's is).
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The Wainwrights is consistently good, there again I don't like lager unless I have no choice. I only drink lager on the continent, they don't sell bitter as it is mainly unique to the UK.
Having said that, cask ale seems to only nowadays be drunk by the older generation such as myself. My kids prefer lager or Vodka shots etc. Cask ale is what I call proper beer. A lot of Manchester's bars do not sell cask ale; I always take great delight in asking for it, and then querying why they don't sell it.
Hmm. Real ale is undergoing a massive revival, especially in Manchester. There are huge amounts of new micro-breweries opening up.
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The Wainwrights is consistently good, there again I don't like lager unless I have no choice. I only drink lager on the continent, they don't sell bitter as it is mainly unique to the UK.
Having said that, cask ale seems to only nowadays be drunk by the older generation such as myself. My kids prefer lager or Vodka shots etc. Cask ale is what I call proper beer. A lot of Manchester's bars do not sell cask ale; I always take great delight in asking for it, and then querying why they don't sell it.
Hmm. Real ale is undergoing a massive revival, especially in Manchester. There are huge amounts of new micro-breweries opening up.
Apologies in advance and at the risk of this thread turning into the real ale T**ts, there is definitely room for your new wave largely keg beers/ cans and traditional cask ales at the ground. For me a well done and kept pint of cask is still the pinnacle of the brewers art. However, living in Bermondsey (home of the craft beer ‘revolution’ in London) I’m equally as good drinking something hoppy in a railway arch. On the cask front, Cloudwater are just about to start brewing cask again, as probably the most on trend brewer in Manchester and indeed the UK then that tells me cask is still strong.
I divert anyway but what I’m saying is that we need to improve our beer offering and service at the ground. On the opening day i missed all 3 goals immediately after HT vs Lem due to the queues. Appreciate resources are finite but when people are drinking at Costello’s/Pi/Blackjack and the like in the town we need to improve the choice and quality of our beer offering.
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Real Ale drinker here.........fine with the Wainwrights and happy to have standard keg cider..............but I won't queue for more than 5 minutes to give someone my money
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As a real ale tw*t myself, I tend to agree with Mick.
Real ale does depend on getting a good turnover of people drinking it, and people have different reasons for going to different venues. At a specialist beer (and pie) bar like Pi, I am quite happy to try something I have never heard of before, if it's not too expensive, but, at a sports club, that's a minority interest, and I would rather have just one beer which people have heard of, will buy, and can feel confident it's reasonably well kept. I might be wrong, but I doubt the groups who hire the CSH away from football drink much, and real ale which is "off" can be awful and you would be better off having that can of Red Stripe from the fridge.
Therefore, not necessarily Wainwright, but a similar beer (subject to any contracts), and maybe even a local one from Dunham, as I know they deal with Trafford Metrovicks rugby union.
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As a real ale tw*t myself, I tend to agree with Mick.
Real ale does depend on getting a good turnover of people drinking it, and people have different reasons for going to different venues. At a specialist beer (and pie) bar like Pi, I am quite happy to try something I have never heard of before, if it's not too expensive, but, at a sports club, that's a minority interest, and I would rather have just one beer which people have heard of, will buy, and can feel confident it's reasonably well kept. I might be wrong, but I doubt the groups who hire the CSH away from football drink much, and real ale which is "off" can be awful and you would be better off having that can of Red Stripe from the fridge.
Therefore, not necessarily Wainwright, but a similar beer (subject to any contracts), and maybe even a local one from Dunham, as I know they deal with Trafford Metrovicks rugby union.
A good turnover and someone that knows what they are doing with it. Ideally you want it to sell out on the day because it won't keep from one week to the next.
I don't think Dunham beers is the answer. They have a strange after taste. It could be the water but they are weird unless you go for the stronger ones which manage to mask it. Other local breweries are available though. Mobberley, Stubborn Mule, Bollington, Poynton. Great pint of Pomona Island (Salford) in Pi at the moment if you want to compare with Wainwright's.