As a practice run before the kick-off of the World’s Biggest Pub Crawl in march, Australian tour company [tag]Thirsty Swagman[/tag] are gearing up for the world’s first 11 Day cross-country pub crawl through Europe in September.
The drinking and fun will begin in the beer tents of the world’s biggest beer festival, the [tag]Oktoberfest[/tag] in Munich.
After Munich, it’s on to the Austrian Alpine village of Maria Alm for three boozy nights. Then the party will stagger onto Prague, for a beerstop, before returning to Germany, where this time they will visit Dusseldorf’s [tag]Bolker Strasse[/tag], where they will drink in as many of the 300 bars in the area as they can manage.
This post is aimed mainly at [tag]female bartenders[/tag], as I don’t think males are treated in quite the same way as us when working behind a bar, however a male could also find it useful.
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If you are a female who has been in the [tag]pub trade[/tag] for any amount of time, the following scenario will be familiar to you. It is the graveyard shift- maybe the middle of the afternoon and you are working alone. There are only two other customers in the bar, the door opens and a dishevelled bloke falls through it. He is quite drunk or even worse has been on something else- and it shows.
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Now you put down the copy of Heat that you were really enjoying, and the realisation hits you- you are going to get shit if you serve him, and you are going to get shit if you don’t. Read the rest of this entry »
Guys in the US are going crazy to own a beer belly!
Every now and then, someone has a really very good idea.
Now, I know the idea of stuffing a rubber pouch down your shirt to give the very realistic look and feel of a beer belly may not seem like a great idea, but read on, Dear Reader, read on!
Breweries have a lot on their plates these days- not only do they have to brew the best tasting beer at the best price, they also have to come up with a really cool ad, to compete with all the other really cool and funny beer commercials.
This is one of my favourites, for Carlton Draught, an Aussie lager brewed by Carlton & United Beverages (formerly Carlton & United Breweries) an Australian brewing company based in Melbourne, Victoria. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Foster’s Group.
The advertisement was released online two weeks before it was first shown on television. Just 24 hours after release, the Big Ad had been downloaded 162,000 times!
However, although the Big Ad was a very sucessful ad, sales of Carlton Draught fell, as did other Aussie beers around that time.
The ad was filmed in Queensland, and the cast consisted of around 300 locals. The vast crowd effect was achieved with Massive Software, a tool often used to enhance crowd scenes in the film industry.
[tag]The Iron Duke[/tag] is one of Brighton’s oldest pubs with a colourful history.
It was built in 1828 on behalf of Wigney & Co. Brewers of Ship Street, and is the oldest pub with accomodation in [tag]Hove[/tag]. It seems when it was built it was a stand alone building that offered a safe haven to travellers on the desolate Brighthelmstone to Old Shoreham track.
Opposite the pub is the historical St. Andrews Church which was attended by royalty and a number of other notable worshippers, including Charles Dickens and Lewis Carrol when they visited [tag]Brighton[/tag].
There is a clandestine undergound tunnel from St. Andrews to the Iron Duke, which was used by church-goers who wanted to sneak off for a crafty pint. Read the rest of this entry »
I read an article this weekend, which described how due to torrential rains, the [tag]Mission Bar[/tag] on Glasgow’s south side in Glasgow flooded, and some customers had to be piggy-backed out by firefighters.
This bought a rather large smile to my face, as I wondered at the pub’s customer’s refusal to move until the water rose so high, they had to be rescued by firemen.
It also reminded me of an incident here in [tag]Lloret de Mar[/tag] in November 2001.
I was working for the Londoner group who apart from the [tag]Disco Londoner[/tag] own another four bars on either side of the Disco Londoner which is in the centre of the nightlife zone.
I was working the day shift, it was a miserable rainy November Sunday- the type of day you don’t really mind going to work, because the weather is so bad there is nothing else to do- and it is likely to be very quiet as it is just too gloomy for people to venture out of doors.
Well, I arrived quite wet, as did the two staff who were opening the pub next door, also belonging to the Londoner company. We opened the doors, and surprisingly customers began to enter- although there were very few people braving the weather, we were the only bars open (November is off-season and most businesses close for the winter months) so the customers probably were desperate for shelter and a beer to cheer them up.