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aft keg being markedly so where markedly 30p 50p two points 1 craft keg in craft beer bars aka the niche within a niche within a niche the reason it s expensive here is twofold first there is the genuine extra expense in kegging for the brewer summed up well here second there is the fact that the first craft keg wave which started five or fewer years ago in major cities certainly london was foreign beer chiefly belgian german or us some of this stuff and tandie is fair on this matter is rightly pricey but it means that new uk keg falls into that price bracket the owner of a craft beer bar has two issues here a if i can charge bonkers money for it why not a reasonable thing that b customers might ask why the foreign stuff is so expensive easier to keep every keg in the same rough price bracket 2 despite this craft keg will find a wider audience and it will do it relatively soon as i wrote btl at reluctant scooper since the rumblings of 2007 and the full on economic crash of 2008 pubcos have had to look at their estates as businesses and not simply real estate investments so we ve seen an explosion of interesting beer in pubco pubs with punch doing a good job greene king noticeably weakening in the face of lobbying from keen licencees and mitchells butlers nicholsons managed chain leading the way it won t be long before these pubcos realise the potential to extend this thinking to the keg fonts already in london and what happens in that london is picked up by marketing bods and suits there are many punch names carrying meantime keg fonts likewise several freehouses are stocking keg brooklyn and camden hells the byron burger chain also stocks bottles of brooklyn the new york beer is fast becoming ubiquitous in bottles and the go to in swanky but cask free places such as hotels gig venues at the lower end of this activity we ve already seen scores of pubs yes including pubco pubs take on budvar and urquell i know a freehouse that gave up on urquell in 2003 due to supply issues now it s widely available my point is it will only take a pubco push of brooklyn sierra nevada or meantime nationwide to make the craft keg scene an almost instant reality those such as thornbridge positioning for that moment are right to do so for that reason i think those saying craft keg is a niche within a niche are missing what could well be a significant shift in the on trade in the coming five years aside from the industry aspects i think thornbridge jaipur is very good on keg and bottle but both are very harsh and yes carbonic compared to the excellent cask version which is very coherent and has a superior mouthfeel but then it s primarily a cask beer designed as such i m not sure i d prefer say lovibond s excellent kegged 69 ipa hoppy and richly bodied but not cloying and beautifully carbonated how or bear republic s racer 5 on cask when i ve tried well kept american style ipas north of 6 7 on cask many not all have tended to be hop teas keen observers will note a i ve come out of retirement b the picture shows us nothing useful in relation to the article except bottles of non real ale illustrating a market for the stuff and evidence of campari consumption to which i happily plead guilty posted by john west at 12 25 9 comments labels brewdog cask keg tandleman friday 29 october 2010 sparkler wars ii is this the way to amarill o again i start a blogpost referencing bgbw beer writer of the year 2009 pete brown you have to pity the fellow he goes all the way to south wales to get hold of some otley amarill o for his latest video post and lo and behold the very same turns up in his stoke newington local the jolly butchers see picture i thought it a very impressive and refreshing brew well balanced with the malt and very drinkable it struck me as exactly the level of interesting beer you d want a few of while watching the six nations with pals of course the real reason for my posting this picture is to offer further evidence in the sparkler wars with tandleman very cheekily claiming game set and match by offering two pictures one of two pint glasses filled with foam and the other with unsparkled beer that looked badly conditioned or past its best this perfect pint was of course unsparkled though i know from reading his excellent blog that tandie was joshing a little he may prefer sparkled beer but he d be the first to concede that condition is all as he knows all too well so often doon sooth a sparkler is used to give life to badly conditioned beer which is just about the worst thing you can do posted by john west at 14 13 15 comments labels otley sparklers saturday 23 october 2010 number of booze kids admitted to hospital falls to 0 103 alcohol concern i m doing a pete brown saturday mornings are always fun for telly addicts bit of james martin fooling around with other chefs on bbc1 luscious nigella cooking something up for men of a certain age and what with the weekend generally being slow news wise a decent bout of activist press release as major story syndrome the bbc carried on its midday bulletin a story based on a report from the perennial neo prohibitionist s favourite alcohol concern according to their research just under 13 000 children were admitted to hospital over 2008 09 in alcohol related incid ents the cost of all this to the nhs came to a staggering 19m alcohol concern s don shenker is quoted as saying drinking among youngsters is a huge problem there are as you might expect several problems with the report s coverage by the cut and paste maestros at bbc towers and the methodology used by alcohol concern to get their figures to begin with even if you take the report at face value it s tentatively good news according to the bbc web site the number of under 18s admitted to hospital rose from 10 976 in 2002 03 to 14 501 in 2007 08 but get this fell to 12 832 in 2008 09 this seems backed up by a trawl through the report though they seem to divide data for 2007 09 by two the alcohol concern message is clearly getting through thank god trebles all round but taking it at face value would be a mistake first of all and here i admit to being utterly subjective i have a big problem with the classification or understanding of under 18s as children for the purposes of the report almost any alcohol related hospitalisation under the age of twelve probably should set off alarm bells but while many in alcohol concern consider it an abomination that teenagers may on occasion imbibe it does happen and when unsupervised can lead to the odd mishap is that right no should parents do all they can to prevent such mishaps yes does that mean they won t happen anyway no take an anecdotal example my friend andrew i ve changed his name obviously is from a nice family with a detached house three kids two cars a summer b arbecue and the most attentive and loving parents imaginable now andrew aged about 17 got himself in a right pickle with a bottle of vodka and ended up slumped outside a shop and needing his stomach pumped this shit happens since then he has been nothing but the most responsible drinker even engaging in lengthy bouts of abstinence if he s working hard i m not saying that we should all have our stomachs pumped to teach us our boundaries what i am saying is a most experimentation even going too far and feeling the worse for wear for it does not end up in hospitalisation b a one off hospitalisation is not evidence of a drink problem on to more statistical terrain now i m no carol vorderman but that 12 832 figure did set me off to thinking about what percentage of under 18s that actually represents a quick look at the office for national statistics web site says in that in 2009 roughly 1 in 5 in the uk were 16 or under which comes to 12 358 400 those 19 or under accounted for 13 101 000 unfortunately a quick search doesn t yield an exact under 18 figure so we can comforta bly assume a rough figure of 12 500 000 this would mean that the percentage of children admitted to hospital in alcohol related cases is wait for it 0 103 that s right 0 103 perhaps 0 103 too much but i fancy that any sociologist passing by will confirm that a shocking state of affairs that affects only 0 103 of any given population is not a serious problem worthy of the label finally and this is the part i really like how did alcohol concern calculate the 19m cost to the nhs and the 12 832 admissions figure the cost now this is based on an estimated price per incident using 2007 08 data of ambulance call outs hospital admissions and a e attendances and given the shaky nature of the last two of those as i explain below there could be major overlap there it s all fairly weak stuff in the end but the real shocker here is that ambulance data in an examination of three ambulance trusts they extrapolate nationwide to get 23 254 call outs costing c 4 6m which three ambulance trusts did they look at london west midlands and the north east i m saying nothing more and the admissions well given page four of the report solemnly opines that we have no way of knowing how many children and young people are attending eds emergency departments a e to you and me due to alcohol you d have to salute their bravery in trying and then convincing the bbc that what they ve written is gospel so let s have the report explain what they ve done hospital episode statistics hes the national health statistics data source is only able to provide data on ed attendances with a primary diagnosis of poisoning including overdose of substa nces that include alcohol between 2007 and 2009 25 767 children and young people under the age of 18 attended an ed with this primary diagnosis however this data is inclusive of all poisoning episodes for example accidental ingestion of bleach it does not allow for isolation of alcohol alone as a cause for attendance and is therefore of limited use divide by two and what do you get 12 883 5 which is as close as dammit i can get to the reported 12 832 but of course these admissions not broken down by type of poisoning do not tell us anything like a full picture regarding the impact of alcohol could be heroin could be weed killer could be anything what can we conclude from this i don t want to give the impression that i do not care about the problem of kids drinking early to excess or in the absence of parental supervision such issues are evidently welcome and necessary components of any national debate about britain s confused relationship with alcohol but that debate must be evidence led and the statistics used should be bomb proof to be fair to the report it highlights some of its own shortcomings as a piece of statistical analysis but this has not stopped the organisation issuing a press release that is far less equivocal that the bbc laps it up so unquestioningly and without any contrary voice in a debate between honest players with differing opinions does not flatter its journalism keen observers will notice i ve decided in the spirit of such reports to illustrate this post with utterly irrelevant pictures of people having fun as if to suggest let s hope this revelry doesn t descend into mindless thuggery posted by john west at 12 11 1 comment labels alcohol concern bbc media tosh neo prohibitionism tuesday 28 september 2010 j accuse wenlock runs out so hoxton s wenlock arms faces the chop eh one co owner wants to se ll and the other cannot buy him out so it s to the estate agents they go the dread of redevelopment hangs heavy those unfamiliar with this pub famous in london at least will not be aware of just how polarised the debate is over this establishment dirty mean spirited and clique ridden or ale palace characterful and charming the truth is it is bot h but never at the same time on a day when there s chas dave style tinkling of the ivories and singalongs and the locals are in on the fun it s a ding dong right aaaahld laaaaahndon boozer with all welcome to join in but you ll go in the next day to the silence of the disgusted with tumbleweed the only distraction between you and contemptful locals who would rather sit in an empty pub without your sort on that day the service will run the full gamut between silent inattentive and outright and even shockingly ru de the hipsters so routinely disdained by the locals and barstaff seem to be running a campaign to keep the place open i certainly welcome that even if i regard their patience at the wenlock s unfathomably mercurial mood swings as saintly in the extreme the current management have had the place for 16 years and fresh blood could tart the pub up a deep clean might eradicate the retch worthy stench of foetid dried urine emanating from the gents without blitzing what is all told a characterful interior it would be a real pity to lose a 175 year old pub that stands alone in its street as a living link with times gone by and could in the right hands continue to offer a great deal to the area and yet i cannot tolerate the notion expressed here in the evening standard that its loss would disfigure london s pub going scene for good or eradicate london s best pub for all that it has an admirable focus on excellent craft cask beer the globe in morning lane hackney only has london pride and young s bitter on cask but both are kept well and the service is unfailingly friendly after a couple of visits the y may not know your name but they recognise you and ask after you the locals mostly 50 working class and mixed between men and women and black and white are not in the least bothered by the minority of middle class 20 somethings that come in rallying round to offer seats and organise tables when live jazz is playing on a sunday the late night regulars cheer on the midnight karaoke come saturday i get a kick out of you swing version is considered a bracing challenge there are teas organised for monday afternoons and special offers that encourage the odd treat bottle of prosecco for 11 50 while not promoting crass binges i think you see where i m heading camra may have afforded the globe a place in the good beer guide 2010 i don t know if it s in the 2011 edition yet but its safe selection of ales would not excite the beer blogging world and god forbid were it under threat i wonder how much support in the wider media it would muster london would miss the wenlock s potential but the globe is a vital community resource with dedicated staff who put in the hours and refresh the offer i know where i ve spent most money wenlock arms photo creative commons licence courtesy of glyn baker globe on morning lane photo creative commons licence courtesy of ewan munro posted by john west at 11 08 10 comments labels beer globe on morning lane pub wenlock arms thursday 1 july 2010 bottle 193 a tribute to hardknottdave hits the æther it s not often my wife s crashing physical ineptitude wins my thanks but one act of startling stupidity of heroic clumsiness has made me a very contented man thankful for a 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