A SWIFT ONE: 'spoons gets crafty

Thursday, February 13, 2014

'spoons gets crafty

Our local Wetherspoons (The Punch Bowl, Blossom Street, York - if any one wonders where we have been hiding lately), is removing Stowford Press cider and replacing it with 2 shiny new keg fonts for the dispense of craft beer.

Initially this will be supplied by Revisionist (ok, Marstons, www.revisionistbeers.co.uk). Having enjoyed the Marstons "single hop" range, we will be looking out for the new offering, especially to see what sort of price Wetherspoons opt for with its craft/keg range!

4 comments:

Cooking Lager said...: I spotted a craft keg in a John Barras PubCo pub in Liverpool. Or at least chilled hoppy pale ale. Ship something or other it was called. Nicer than the usual grot in there.

Craft keg to the mainstream.....; 13 February 2014 at 14:34
Ale Ambler said...: It's great to see both of you posting on the blog again.
The web figures have shot up since you put your 'Spoons craft beers post up.
I have tweeted a link to your Marston's Revisionist post just now.
Cheers from aswiftone.com 'newbie!'
Ale Ambler.
Ps thank you for you comment on the 'West Riding is 20' piece.; 13 February 2014 at 19:37
The Ale Louse said...: You're right the pricing will be very interesting. Can't see this happening at all spoons but will be looking out here in Lower Scuttledale.; 15 February 2014 at 09:58
Anonymous said...: Beer arrived on the fonts tonight, Revisionist Craft Lager(4%) and Shipyard (of Portland, Oregon - brewed at Marstons) American Pale (4.5%). Enthusiastic staff (who are all about 30 years younger than me) offered tasters to anyone interested, and others turned up on their day off to sample them. The price? £2.65 a pint.
Aliain.; 21 February 2014 at 20:51

some famous beer quotes...

“The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks. They spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions and never develop their higher spiritual values or explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.” - Shane McGowan

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.–Frank Sinatra

The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.–William Butler Yeats

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.–Ernest Hemingway

"Some miners (in the town where he started his journalism career) would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints." -- Michael Jackson

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.–Ernest Hemingway

You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.–Dean Martin

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink.–G.K. Chesterton

Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time.–Catherine Zandonella

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.–Ambrose Bierce

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.–Anonymous

"I love the smell of hops in the morning. It smells like victory. " -- Nick Floyd, Three Floyds Brewing, Hammond, Ind.

Drinking provides a beautiful excuse to pursue the one activity that truly gives me pleasure, hooking up with fat hairy girls.– Ross Levy

A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?–W.C. Fields

Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.–Anonymous

If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.–David Daye

"Here's to beer, so amber and pure. Not as sweet as a woman's lips, But a damn sight more sincere." -- Old Irish Toast

"They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsener Beer' on the label. It is a crime." -- Michael Jackson

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.–Oscar Wilde

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.–Henry Youngman

Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.–Michelle Mastrolacasa

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.–Tom Waits

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?–Stephen Wright

When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep.When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let’s all get drunk, and go to heaven…–Brian O’Rourke

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.–Frank Zappa

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.–Winston Churchill

He was a wise man who invented beer.–Plato

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.–Benjamin Franklin

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.–Deep Thought Jack Handy

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.–Dave Barry

"Beer made from corn, rice, or wheat is about as much beer as butter made from beef scraping...or sugar made from old rags." - The Milwaukee News, 1878

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.–Humphrey Bogart

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.–Kaiser Wilhelm

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.–Homer Simpson

I drink to make other people interesting.–George Jean Nathan

All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me - so let’s just do this and I’ll get back to killing you with beer.–Homer Simpson