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PandG Wrote:

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> The beer is ?4.00 from the makers in Cornwall +

> transport + the Patch costs = seems to be fair

> price ?


I suppose it is a fair price for an imported Cornish beer - but I was expecting (hoping for) more local beers (like the Crystal Palace Bitter the Draft House had a couple of weeks back for ?2.75 a pint).

sedm Wrote:

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> If the number of people who claim they read the

> Guardian actually did read it, the circulation

> figures wouldn't be what they are. *ahem*


Well maybe they do - online for free. Why buy the paper? The Guardian's continuing losses in the tens of millions a year are only sustained by the cash cow of the GMG's "Auto Trader" sell-off. Liberal eco-awareness being subsidised by the petroleum economy. Nice irony there.

Mind crushingly dull debates on the merits of The Guardians funding model, stance and reason for being can be had on other threads. I'm wanting live chickens, warm bread and a pea garden. Roof grown rosemary and crane lifted cow.


And at least one pint of Bishops sock under ?4 to keep the old guard happy.

I understand they are tied to one brewery. Therefore they can't sell other

ales , only what that brewer has, and they have to pay that brewer's prices.


I think that's right but I

stand to be corrected.


Don't know if that applies to bottled ales as well.


The Mag always had Doombar, or sometimes Landlord, and sold it at a similar price.


It was always going to be an issue for The Patch, as discussed on here ad nauseam months ago

, at the time they were trying to raise community funding.


I agree it's a great pity for a self styled community pub not to sell local ales, if that is actually the case.


The Ivy House does.


Sorry for odd formatting am on my phone.


maxxi Wrote:

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> PandG Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > The beer is ?4.00 from the makers in Cornwall +

> > transport + the Patch costs = seems to be fair

> > price ?

>

> I suppose it is a fair price for an imported

> Cornish beer - but I was expecting (hoping for)

> more local beers (like the Crystal Palace Bitter

> the Draft House had a couple of weeks back for

> ?2.75 a pint).

Very disappointing beer selection... After the selections at flying pig and ivy house, it's very much a step back


If sue is correct and they are brewery tied there isn't much they can do about it. They are probably as annoyed as the customers


That said, I did pay 3 pound something for a pint of lager which is cheaper than most places around here

The more I hear of The Patch, the less interested I am in going. It seems to have taken the less appealing, up-its-own-bum with pretention aspects of ED and gone a step further.


Which seems sad for a new place.


Hope I'm wrong - but the prices, the menu, the abysmal student style graffiti-art

maxxi Wrote:

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> If The Patch is still a tied house then my

> expectations of local beers etc are unrealistic -

> I think I was confused by their declaration of

> being

>

> "Fully independent and self-sufficient,"

>

> and that they were

>

> "owned, supplied and managed by the local

> community".


xxxxxxx


Yes, I too am confused by all of that.


Discussed ad nauseam on a long-ago thread.


I don't understand how they can make any of those claims, but hope to be enlightened in due course.

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