#42

Haven’t had a Chinotto San Pelly since I moved to Leeds - need to rectify that

#43

That sweet minty aftertaste.

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#44

Served a guy once on a stag do asking for 2 Becks blues (£4/bottle) poured into a pint glass to keep up the illusion that he was a LAD

He ordered this from me 3 times. £24 quid smh.

Still feel bad for him to this day

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#45

:open_mouth:

Why didn’t he order shandies? I mean if he’s that insecure w/e

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#46

At home I’ll have some rhubarb cordial and soda water. Divine.

#47

I like to TAKE IT TO THE MAX*!!!1111111111111
*I enjoy drinking the soft drink pepsi max by pepsi

#48

tbh real question is why the fuck the UK charges so much for non-alchoholic beer

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#49

Exactly - there’s no beer duty, so it should be a chunk cheaper (at least 50p a pint cheaper compared to general duty, 2.8% to 5.5% abv). https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-shopping/alcohol-tobacco

One thing I noticed living in a pub was that every time the government put up beer duty, the brewery would add their own price rise at the same time. So if beer duty added 5p to a pint, so would the brewery and we’d have to charge 10p a pint more (or lose money). Of course people complained, but everyone just blamed the government for raising taxes - the brewery themselves got away with it.

The amount of duty per pint is lower than I’d have thought (before I looked up what it actually is these days) - the rest is the brewers charging whatever they can, and the pubs passing on these costs (while trying to make a living).

#50

Still!

#51

Massive not a fan of non alcoholic beer, seems to only exist so people (my parents) can complain when a place doesn’t have any

#52

Shloer, the soft drink for adults

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#53

Had this recently in a bar in Manchester, tasty: https://www.jamesclay.co.uk/core/brewery/schoefferhofer

#54

Cum

#55

Yeurgh.

#56

Not 100% on whether this is ‘YEAH’ channeled through the gurgling of lovely chinotto or the erugh of someone with [insert your choice of Tory/child/insult of choice] taste buds

#57

Not following this, the breweries pay the duty, don’t they? so would put up the price by the amount of the duty, the pub would just need to put it up by the same price as the brewery to make the same profit…

#58

Pretty much. Felt like I’d been cruelly tricked the first time I had it.

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#59

This stuff is good only 2.5%

#60

Vaguely related tweet I enjoyed

#61

That’s right, the brewery would increase their prices by the duty amount (say, 5p a pint) thus passing it on to pubs and consumers - but then they would add their own price hike at the same time (by another 5p on top of the duty raise, making a 10p/pint increase). Didn’t explain very well, sorry! Basically the brewery would time it so their own price hikes would be blamed on the taxman

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