TOPIC: Pubs in Carlisle with bt sport

Must be open at 8.30 for the Sydney Derby. Anyone know? Does Lloyds or spoons have bt sport and showing it on Saturday morning? Can't be bothered sitting watching it on bet365 stream

Lloyds at that time of day, probably need to ask for it to be put on mind.

Cheers. Hopefully they'll be decent and put it on at least 1 screen for me

chopper wrote:
Why would you need it on more than one screen?

Lloyds will put it on for you but you might need to remind them for it. I will drop a note on our managers page to let them know it's been requested

Brilliant cheers Matt. Hopefully stuff the wanderers yet again

chesterviabothel wrote:

For when I go to the bar to get a drink so I don't miss any lol

chopper wrote:
Oh don't drink in there! Awful pint.

If it's a pint at that time of the morning I don't really care, can't drink much as I have commitments at 1.30 tomorrow anyway

TheLazyLewisGuy wrote:
What did you last drink in there?

Have to say, I've never had a pint I've handed back in there, generally very good. Always a decent selection of ales as well. My only minor complaint is the same as with most Wetherspoons, perhaps slightly too cold.

I've had a couple of dodgy pints in Lloyds, but nothing out of the ordinary compared to anywhere else. You'll always get bad pints in any pub, and I drink real ales so it's not gonna be the same generic fizzy crap out of lager barrels

I've been lucky then I guess. I don't get there all that often, half a dozen times a year I suppose. I must have always caught the right barrel.

Same as anywhere really.....although I've never had a pint early on, always made sure it's had some pulled through the lines before. I can be quite picky mind when it comes to beer

Nothing at all wrong with being picky about your beer mate. I am myself. You're right though, same as anywhere. Any place can get a bad barrel, or keep one on a day too long, or whatever. Generally pretty safe to say that in Lloyds, even if you do get a bad one, there's a pretty good choice to replace it, and they'll definitely do so.

chopper wrote:
you can have a few gorgeous pints of fosters whilst your watching

Real Ale can take a couple of pints to move through the line on a morning to get it started but generally it's not really an issue and is a pretty good pint.
The system we have uses widgets and floats to take the beer from the barrel which can sometimes mean it gets sediment in if the beer hasn't settled enough in the barrel or it is coming to the end of the barrel, this is compared to Woodrows who have the stillage in, which means they have to settle their ale differently & longer which means less likely to get a bad pint.
As Moorlad says if you ain't happy let us know and will soon replace it or Fosters is a good pint, for some reason our still our highest selling lager despite we have better lagers available cheaper!

chopper wrote:
You shouldn't get a bad pint if its kept properly.

chesterviabothel wrote:
You always run the risk of getting a cloudy pint at the end of the barrel no matter how well you keep your beer.

Mush wrote:

I'd rather have Nixon and pattison gyrating naked in front of me than drink that crap! Lol I'm a real ale man, can't be doing with the fizzy crap in lager

chesterviabothel wrote:

You shouldn't. The problem I've found in various pubs through Cumbria and north Lancashire is when the publicans tap and vented the casks, it's fine. But if you get a cask that's tapped and vented by someone that's not sure what they're doing (a part time uni student for example) then it could go either way

mattcufc wrote:
Aye, fair point. I was referring to a bad pint rather than a cloudy end of barrel pint though.

Fair enough, if you could solve the problem of the cloudy end of barrel pint I think the breweries would be paying you a fortune!
Think we sell around 5000 pints across the full range a week and would say we get less than a handful a week returned to be changed and majority of these are end of barrel.

Must be doing something right then Matt.

Don't do much except do the basics right. Keep lines cleaned weekly, real ales cleaned after each barrel, equipment clean and importantly glasses clean.
Is amazing how many pubs I've been in, including Wetherspoons pubs, where things haven't been done right and unsurprisingly they have issues with the beer.

mattcufc wrote:
Tuborg, Amstel, Coors, Heineken, Kronie are all better.

It will always be a classic quote from the old board about the best peeve in Carlisle? Fosters Lloyds

Thanks Matt for sorting it out with the manager. They were expecting me so had it ready for 8.30

mattcufc wrote:
You were doing nowt on Saturday.

I saw you!

Ive never had a poor pint of ale in lloyds, as Matt says its basics to keep the lines right and to know when its past its best or bottom of the barrel. Too many of the basic skills are being missed in other pubs... see the bounty in workington...they are pathetic at looking after ale

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Moorlad wrote:
Was a rare Saturday off for the football as we had took out the match ball sponsorship. Had a really good day and were well looked after by CUFC.

Glad to hear that mate. I saw you coming off the pitch. Griff and I never get in while that bloody handshaking nonsense is going on.