There's a push (and high court hearing) that pubs should be able to open indoors, that they're perfectly safe, that landlords are responsible.
But then you have a look at the photos of the beer gardens ready to welcome people back and you can see that the rules aren't even...
...bring adhered to for outside drinking.
Tables are too close together to allow for the needed social distancing (at least 1m between the people sat at them).
Covered areas have covered sides (at least 50% needs to be clear).
If pubs can't even get this right, and are...
...happily promoting that knowing that like last time there'll be little to no inspection let alone enforcement, what honestly makes you think they'll be able to open safely indoors?
The usual response is they're safer than shops. That doesn't matter.
It should be asked...
...Are they as safe as staying at home?
And if you run a pub with a beer garden that falls foul of the rules, FFS sort it out.
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Additional: Don't even get me started on the general public's behaviour. Far too many people not wearing masks, not distancing, not giving a shit about anyone other than themselves.
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Right from my way days as an ale drinker @AbbeydaleBeers have been there brewing some of the best cask beer you'll find.
In more recent times they got @Jim_Rangeley on board and have been doing @AbbeydaleFunk, at the very cutting edge of English mixed fermentation and sour...
...beers of the highest quality.
They've not had the hype, but they've had the quality.
Every single person I've met from @AbbeydaleBeers over all those years has been so friendly, so helpful, so fricking craft.
Whether it's been about the beers they brew, and helping...
Here's a quick thought on the difference between the spirit of the law, and the letter of it. Seeing as we're still waiting on clarification on whether we can sell our beer as off sales, or if that's just restricted to multinational supermarket chains.
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At the moment the law states that to have a pint in a pub you have to be seated and have it with a substantial table meal, and that you can only do so with members of your own household.
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A separate law brought in to allow outside drinking removed the condition on premises licenses that required off-sales to be served in sealed containers. So off-sales can be by the pint, as long as it's a plastic container.
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So here's an interesting read for your morning while pretending to work...
There's a group called the Independent Family Brewers of Britain (IFBB) who represent the "29 family Brewers" "ifamily owned and fiercely proud of our brewing heritage"
Brakspear, Charles Wells, Thwaites, Fullers and Youngs are listed there.
Brakspear sold its beers to Wychwood via Refresh UK in 2002, and later Wychwood was bought by Marstons. Brakspear then sold its estate of 104 pubs to JT Davies, who rebranded their own 51 pubs to Brakspear. So why are they there? They're not a brewer and only own 1 pub themselves