"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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In article , Paul Sengupta
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Young people now drink lager. Real ale has an image problem, it's
seen as the drink of old men sitting around in a near empty pub.

It depends. I've never been a fan of lager. My local (The Bay, Port
Erin) is a real ale pub.

Neither have I, though it's not bad if a) it's a hot day and you're
thirsty, b) you're abroad, and c) you're in an Indian or Chinese
restaurant and you get Cobra or Tsing Tao.

I see plenty of teenagers/early 20s in there. Drinking real ale.

Ah. It's different in the country pubs, but go to any pub in a town
centre in Britain on a Friday or Saturday and you'll see a predominance
of lager and alcopops. At least in my (limited...ahem!) experience.

Plenty still drink alcopops (which are evil) and lager (which doesn't
taste of anything but CO2), but that's up to them. Most seem to like
proper beer.

One of our pubs in Guildford (actually, two of them) opened as a
real ale pub. They had wooden barrels with a good selection of
beers, and every week they would have various guest ales. Great!
Guess what...a couple of years ago the wooden barrels went, to be
replaced with brightly lit glass shelves stacked with alcopops.

But once you get someone drinking proper hand-pulled beer, they
often wonder why they ever drank lager. It's getting them that first
pint that's the trouble.

Who was it on here that quoted a poster : "Afraid you'll taste something
lager boy?"

Most of our pubs have proper beer engines too,

Beer engines? Like this one?
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/
:-)

The other problem with real beer is you have to keep it properly.

Indeed. Probably the worst pint of Brains SA (Brewed in Cardiff) that
I've had was in Swansea. One of the best was down in a pub near
Guildford that had it as a guest ale. Mind you, that may have just been
homesick nostalgia! :-)

Paul