An Atlanta pub has fitted sophistimicated taps into the tables of patrons. One pulls ones own pints which are digitally measured and go on the tab. Simplicity to the point of genius. And as a genius himself Geeklawyer knows genius.
Of course being a yank pub there are a couple of problems: weird licensing laws that interpose morality between imbiber and an unlimited amount of beer; a waiter has to come over periodically & do some clicky thing on a doodad to make sure one isn’t drinking too much. Pfff - twats.
Secondly and more substantively it serves up American beer: Coors Bud or some other flavour of horse urine. Easily fixable of course; in the UK one would just plumb in kegs of Dark Star for a proper alcohol experience. Easy.
This idea is soooooo worth a patent. And Geeklawyer hates patents, except when he gets paid to defend them.
You would get charged more for the frothing head on your beer and the inevitable over flow that comes with pouring a point in the northen style with a sprinkler head on the tap.
Also in the UK you have to serve pints into clean glasses to avoid cross contaimiation with the beer tap. What if some pikey has been smearing their bleeding gum stained glass around your tap before you get there. I don’t want hep B with my pint.
Are bar snacks such as pork scratchings to bee distrubuted via vending machines as well?
I’ll pay for the froth as the price of convenience. As for pikeys - I have a Stein but anyway you’s just get glasses when you came in and surrender them when you leave and the barhop would clean the tap.
Porks scratchings is obviously a real issue and thought would have to go into optimising their delivery to the table. Again, the barhop seems ideal, one would yell “HEY!! PLEBIAN POLISH SCUM COME HERE AND BRING VICTUALS”
It’s an ok idea, but there is just something I dislike about having to serve myself when someone else could do it for me. Ideally I would like the service button’s reinstated in my local (they are still there but no longer work). I could then sit there pressing a bell to have someone bring my beer to me.
You should ditch your tacky and overly fancy German stein in favor for a proper pewter tankard.
Cleaning the tap is ok but would this happen every time? Also you might go out drinking with someone for instance a fictional friend called ‘stephen’ and catch their gay diseases as they smear their dirty stein all over your tap.
My stein is fine, pewter is for pewfters.
I have no friends call Stephen - I do know someone called Stephen but he is a gay and so I distance myself from him lest people question my sexuality and lest I catch ‘Gay’.
You are of course right: only the yanks could turn such a blinding concept into an insult by making it easier to drink American Beer. Now, I wonder if it would work with the real gravity-fed stuff? well, I guess you’d have to keep barrels in the ceiling for a start. Hang on a minute…
You could use hand pumps like most places serving actual beer and not lager pop do. Problem is that you would need to hook loads of barrels up at the same time to feed the pumps.
Or you could just have the barrel on the table and tap it.
I remember when Yo Sushi was still here in Edinburgh, and in the basement, they had a pub.
And in that pub, they had tables with beer taps in the middle.
Press a button, and a pre-measured amount of beer was dispensed, and the digital counter would tell you how many had been poured so far.
Happy days.
What I can remember of them…
*only flaw was they weren’t pints, but those little thick glasses you give to kids, that are about a third of a pint. Methinks they didn’t trust us with grown up glasses…*
OMG I just had an image, hand-pumps for the beer!
I think it’s an interesting concept and I think Mr Geeklawyer should jump on the bandwagon and figure out how he can profit from this - and of course maintain *moi* in the style I want to be a accustomed to.
I quite like the idea of getting one of those mobile saline dip trolleys seen in hospitals to give patients a bit of mobility. Filled with Rioja it would make a stylish accessory as one wondered about Chiswick…. and would enable me to sit outside The Boollo for hours smoking roll ups and talking nonsense to King Arthur and other visitors to The Bollo.
Yes… time for a trip to Ebay.
Geek,
Never mind this yank beer,did you see The Apprentice?
No. But if your are going to talk about the twit Nicola de Fantasist then I am ahead of you thanks to VM’s post at Ruthieslaw.
Is he not for real?
From his website - I kid you not
” In Nicholas de Lacy-Brown however, there lies a man who is prepared to question such apathy. Undoubtedly a man of many talents, he has lived his short twenty-four years with a vivacity and boldness which few could achieve in a lifetime, most recently seen when standing up to the ruthless tongue of Alan Sugar as a contestant in the BBC show The Apprentice.”
err if that was ’standing up’ I’d hate to see mown down by a tank.
My inability to spout gumpf like the above must be a material reason why I am not more successful in the paper sift.
Being a slut is no problem, that I can do fine. But being a slut on paper is the worst kind of slut there is- a prick tease. I must learn the ways of the paper slut.
This is your lesson young one. Be a slut.
WTF!?
Juxtajazz - baby - long time no hear. Lovely to hear from the worlds worst stalker. XX (just to make MsR jealous - some chance)
Oh, and I like that you can comment from safari, ’cause oh I weary of firefox.
Oh geeky I have missed you. Been busy writing a formalist & liberalist (welfare and libertarian) critique of Neal v R (1982) 149 CLR 305. Perhaps it’s a sign of my inner wanker, but I love it! You should have a look, very cool case! http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/1982/55.html
Read Justice Murphy, he is so very cool, but sadly in dissent. There is a lovely line: “Mr Neal is entitled to be an agitator.” Smash the racism, do away with false justice… Oh dear, I’ve developed compassion again…
Originally known as “The Random Pub Generator” the http://www.throngalong.com website was developed to solve the age-old problem of deciding where to go out for a drink in the evening, how to invite everyone and how to know who is coming and who isn’t.
Basically you set up a shortlist of favourite pubs (or clubs, restaurants etc), add a list of friend’s email address and choose a date and time. Invitations are sent out with a link so everyone can RSVP easily and see who else is going. The neatest thing is that the venue is selected at random, at the time the invitations are sent out, from the list given. The date can be recurring so you can have it go off automatically every week, choosing a different pub each time.
The RSVP page is great as everyone can leave messages for each other to arrange where to meet, explain why they’ll be late, or worse of all, why they’re not coming!