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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #15 on: October 15, 2018, 10:04:45 PM »

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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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #16 on: October 15, 2018, 10:21:32 PM »

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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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #17 on: October 15, 2018, 10:27:11 PM »

What happened to the bottle bar on Saturday?
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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2018, 08:52:13 AM »

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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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #19 on: October 16, 2018, 09:56:32 AM »

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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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #20 on: October 16, 2018, 06:13:57 PM »

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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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #21 on: October 17, 2018, 12:52:34 PM »

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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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #22 on: October 17, 2018, 03:56:52 PM »

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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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #23 on: October 17, 2018, 04:25:44 PM »

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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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #24 on: October 17, 2018, 06:24:12 PM »

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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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #25 on: October 17, 2018, 10:37:57 PM »

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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Re: Quality of the Fosters in Community Hall
« Reply #26 on: October 17, 2018, 11:24:04 PM »

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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« Reply #27 on: October 18, 2018, 04:32:17 PM »

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. 
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