Beer - Would you like to taste it Sir?

[Cassius]

If I ask to sample a real ale - one I haven't seen before and would like to try, and I am refused I would walk out of the pub. 9 tmes out of 10 I will buy the drink I have tried, and occasionally if I don't like the one I've tried I will buy another that I am sure of. The samples given are very small and surely client satisfaction in this market is worth quite a bit. However to ask to try several does seem a bit out of order. Incidentally I haven't been refused yet.

[Emerson Crane]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Yeah but you are allowed to poke yourself in the

> eye with a snooker cue in most pubs. It isn't very

> sensible I grant you but it isn't against the

> rules.

>

> Or is it?

>

> What sort of snooker cue we talking here anyway.

> Have you brought your own in a little leather bag

> which you screw together or is it the one you had

> to leave a fiver deposit for behind the bar? And

> very few pubs have snooker tables anyway. It's

> pool or nowt mostly. Are you in the Gowlett. Did

> you put chilli oil on your diablo?

>

> All in all, as you can see, it really isn't such a

> cut and dried issue.

Now you're being silly :))

[Emerson Crane]

Cassius Wrote:

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> If I ask to sample a real ale - one I haven't seen

> before and would like to try, and I am refused I

> would walk out of the pub. 9 tmes out of 10 I

> will buy the drink I have tried, and occasionally

> if I don't like the one I've tried I will buy

> another that I am sure of. The samples given are

> very small and surely client satisfaction in this

> market is worth quite a bit. However to ask to try

> several does seem a bit out of order. Incidentally

> I haven't been refused yet.

Totally agree, I've done this many times, and to my surprise many pubs in the West End actually offer you a sample if you're unsure. I was in the Porcupine next to Leicester Sq tube and couldn't make up my mind as to which of the 5 ales they had on to have, the manager offfred me two samples without hesitation. One happy customer, plus 4 mates, job done.