Hoppy New Beer!

Best wishes for 2021, let's hope things can improve very soon, I'm certainly missing pubs, ales and my social life... I shall be writing about my favourite ales of 2020 in the next couple of days, I was limited, for obvious reasons, notably not being allowed to travel! And remember! 😉

Amused me when I saw it, but do be careful, & hopefully find a decent beer to drink, cheers! 

Merry Christmas!

 Make the most of Christmas, but it'll be bottles for me, Merry Christmas & roll on normal!

Save our Pubs Petition

Do you remember the good old days before the Lockdown? Well, things are getting even worse for pubs and other businesses in the hospitality sector, indeed, the future of many is looking bleaker by the day as more and more lockdowns arrive, and more areas are being placed in higher tiers, despite virtually every other business in the country carrying on trading, even hairdressers and gyms in tier 3! 

Just what has this Government got against Pubs?!? There is very little evidence of COVID-19 being caught in pubs, indeed rates of infection only increased when schools reopened in September, and then rates shot up when universities and further education colleges reopened, whilst pubs have spent plenty of money on 'mitigations' and actually carry out the private track & trace system's work for them!

Then 'wet pubs' were offered a paltry £1,000 because they were closed under the systems of tiers introduced by the Government (blog), have the people in power no idea of the continued costs publicans have to fork out for?

Anyway, here's a petition urging a Government package to support the trade!

Please sign at this link, cheers!

Bad News for Ale Houses

The Government is offering just £1,000 as a one-off payment in December to pubs in Tiers 2 and 3 that don't sell food, that is 'wet pubs,' as announced by the Prime Minister earlier today (sky). What a disgrace! What is it that the apparent puritans in Government have against pubs?!? 

First, how the hell can publicans get by on just a grand, it's as though Government Ministers want pubs to go under, I wonder if they've been given stuffed brown envelopes by property developers? It wouldn't surprise me with this bunch of corrupt incompetents!

Second, why is it just the hospitality sector that is being hit by the Government? Gyms are returning, hairdressers are returning, museums, football crowds, everyone except pubs, the one sector that actually managed the COVID-19 Crisis between the lockdowns, spending out on 'mitigations' requested of them by Government, administering 'track & trace' records, sanitizing regularly, ensuring social distancing etc etc!

Indeed, the rate of COVID-19 is decreasing, see my other blog for example, whilst the Government puts at risk the future of our pubs, I'm sad, but also I'm very angry! 😡