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And this is where the Club should receive a slap on the back ........ For putting fans first (even it the Club do benefit).

 

Naughty, naughty!

 

Never had a pint in the ground. Very likely would if they had decent ale - particularly after the game to avoid the traffic. I'd probably eat, too, if they sold some decent food. I usually get home too late to eat with the rest of the family so I order a chinese and have a quick pint in the pub while it gets cooked. There must be plenty of others like me that the club is not catching.

This one's a bit hoppy to my taste but the name and colour are good - just needs a bit of claret in the label.



If they get barrels of real ale in - you can draw off surplus afterwards without a sparkler into properly sealed containers and it will keep quite a while. I've sometimes found a brilliant ale on my travels and had them fill me an old pop bottle up (sometimes with a small discount of about 50p per pint) and it keeps well and tastes fine - unlike those crap trendy 4-pint plastic jugs that they pushed through the 90s for take-outs. They went flat in 24-48 hours.

https://www.home-brew-online.com/equipment-c40/home-brew-online-flagon-4-pint-with-pressure-cap-p2170

You could draw it into 40 pint plastic brew barrels and it should be okay, though somebody would get arm ache. I found they kept for a few weeks. I never actually had any long enough to find it went off. If you want it to keep a bit longer you can get some 4 pint brew barrels that will pressurise with a small CO2 cartridge so they'll keep the air out and last longer.

https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-pressure-barrel-25l/p/0441260

There should be solutions out there if people want to look for them. There is a bit of an art to getting it all right though.

 

I understand @Glenn Ackroyd saying about the tie ins with Carlsberg, but for me what is the revenue City miss out on because of a crap beer/lager offering? I never buy a pint at the ground because it's over priced rubbish and I'm sure there's a lot like me.

How can we say the Carlsberg tie in is a must if we don't see what other choice of drink would gain in terms of revenue?

 

It certainly hasn't moved with the times, its as basic as it was 20 odd years ago.

 

sorry, not a member of any supporters group.

 

The kiosks and the catering, which this season had separate suppliers, agree to contract based upon using Carlsberg as the exclusive beer partners. Centreplate (Kiosk) and CGC (Events) have operated on this arrangement this and previous seasons.

We can have none-Calsberg drinks, but the terms of the beer contract mean that other suppliers are significantly less attractive. So any change will severely reduce the catering revenue.

The tie-in is for inside the ground, so a fan zone if permitted, will allow for more choice.

 

There are plenty of great breweries around Bradford/Leeds that do kegs of good beer which would be great to see and has a longer shelf life. Spurs have strong links with Beavertown brewery in their new stadium.
But as you say, based on the franchising it'll be cheap lager that costs them maybe 20p a pint to make being sold at a fiver

 

Have you any ideas what you are going to do? Is it a case of a coat of paint and a new carpet or is there money in the budget for other improvements?

 

It's certainly true that once a barrel of proper beer is opened it doesn't keep very long and is soon past its best. As soon as oxygen comes into contact with beer it goes off in no time. That was one reason the terrible keg beer of the late sixties and seventies was introduced. Because it was pasteurised and used gas pressure to serve it, it didn't go off quickly and meant that sports clubs and other organisations that really only operated at the weekends could keep a keg going for several weeks. Pubs at the time would shift a barrel in no time so it wasn't an issue for them. A number of real ale outlets suffer from this even today, and while it is very laudable that they offer proper beer, sometimes it can be almost undrinkable. But if you have to chuck out half a barrel, there go your profits. Despite this I'm surprised that more football clubs don't realise that if they sold decent beer at a fair price they'd attract a lot of fans into the ground earlier and sell an awful lot of beer, particularly if people thought that the profits were benefitting the club. I seem to remember at Chelsea the beer was half price between 1pm and 2pm, something I took considerable advantage of.

 

Only if its going to make money. There seems to be more demand for better food options than there does for 'real ale'. I honestly don't think there is enough demand to make it viable once every two weeks of the football season.

 

They were selling Saltaire brewery beers at the scout derby day at the top of my road, i've set pumps up before so i know things can be done. I just don't see the demand for 'real ale' at a football match, apart from a small number of real ale fans. Football fans on the whole don't seem to care what it is as long as has alcohol in it, and theres more profit to be made from the likes of carling and john smiths type drinks. Don't forget, on top of the profit you are advocating you have pump set up and staff fees.

 

Very interesting points Stafford. I would buy into that but City seem like they are happy with the deal they have.

 

Carlsberg have a contract with City to provide food and drink !!