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[T.B.T.]

Is this the answer to the ‘warm beer’ and poor service issues at the WFCG?

Anyone experienced this in the Main Stand / Peter Taylor Stand?

Are vending machines the answer for cold drinks?

 

[Morpeth]

Service on Sunday was piss poor, but I caveat that by saying that was specifically the bar area.

No plastic or glass bottled water.
Virtually everyone was mute and couldn’t work out anything for themselves without having to ask someone else.
Zero urgency, even just before and at half time.

Really, really awful.

 

[Redemption]

Glass bottled water.

 

[Morpeth]

Glass bottled water.

Don’t worry - no one specifically asked for them but they were offered as a replacement for the plastic which they didn’t have. Then had to be refunded as they had none of those either. Truly pathetic.

 

[Flaggers]

Glass bottled water.

Glass bottle... bottle glass.

Spoon jar, jar spoon....

 

[Lefkasman]

Glass bottle... bottle glass.

Spoon jar, jar spoon....

Just like that.

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[Redemption]

Glass bottle... bottle glass.

Spoon jar, jar spoon....

 

[Bob Fossil]

Is this the answer to the ‘warm beer’ and poor service issues at the WFCG?

Anyone experienced this in the Main Stand / Peter Taylor Stand?

Are vending machines the answer for cold drinks?


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They've had those at Trent Bridge for a while now.

I was saying they'd work well at TWFCG.

Madri is a decent lager as well.

 

[redforest]

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[T.B.T.]

They've had those at Trent Bridge for a while now.

I was saying they'd work well at TWFCG.

Madri is a decent lager as well.

Maybe, just maybe they’re trialling them with a view to rolling them out to the rest of the ground.

They could vend hot beverages too which would leave the kiosk queues for hot food only.

 

[Morpeth]

Madri is a decent lager as well.

It’s as good as the usual stuff anywhere sells. Seems to have just arrived on our shores for no reason.

 

[Redemption]

Madri is an invented brand for the UK market.

Its basically an Henieken for people who are daft enough to think drinking industrial Cervesa gives off an impression of sophisticated cosmopolitan.

It's basically Coors with a European twist.

 

[Viktor]

It's pretty tasty though

 

[Redemption]

Yeah. As cooking lagers go, it's pretty decent. It gets the modern pallet right in the segment its after.

 

[Bob Fossil]

Madri is an invented brand for the UK market.

Its basically an Henieken for people who are daft enough to think drinking industrial Cervesa gives off an impression of sophisticated cosmopolitan.

It's basically Coors with a European twist.

Not sure about people who drink it bring 'daft'- rather a matter of taste that differs from your own.

I love a high strength NEIPA or DIPA but don't get snobby about it to my mate's who prefer a Birra Moretti, Peroni or Madri- which compared to Fosters, Carling or Carsberg are infinitely better on the palate.

 

[Morpeth]

We should just serve chilled cans full stop around the ground. Speedy, tastes just a good/bad, easier to carry, and they could stock a wider range. Rocket science, it is not.

 

[Strummer]

We should just serve chilled cans full stop around the ground. Speedy, tastes just a good/bad, easier to carry, and they could stock a wider range. Rocket science, it is not.

Until of course, some pissed-up cretin throws a full, chilled can at your head.

Which is exactly the reason why they don’t serve cans.

 

[forestzoe]

We should just serve chilled cans full stop around the ground. Speedy, tastes just a good/bad, easier to carry, and they could stock a wider range. Rocket science, it is not.

We've lost a bar in LB, and apparently no plans to put draught on the 1 remaining bar to replace that lost with the rejig. Remaining has 1 tiny bottle fridge, just a double under bar chiller. Even 45 mins prior to kick off we got the last 3 chilled bottles, they were loading it back up with warm bottles (don't they have cold storage?) You're expecting them to serve a wider range and keep it cold? Hahahahahahahahaha!

Those Madri vending machines would actually be ideal for LB, hope we get them, and soon



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[Morpeth]

Until of course, some pissed-up cretin throws a full, chilled can at your head.

Which is exactly the reason why they don’t serve cans.

Does a full plastic bottle not hurt?

 

[Timothy Pope]

They've had those at Trent Bridge for a while now.

I was saying they'd work well at TWFCG.

Madri is a decent lager as well.

It’s equivalent to Fosters. You’d expect it to taste like Moretti or Peroni the way it’s marketed.

 

[Bob Fossil]

It’s equivalent to Fosters. You’d expect it to taste like Moretti or Peroni the way it’s marketed.

Disagree.

Can't drink Fosters, Carlsberg or Carling as they taste piss weak whereas Madri is more than decent as far as mass produced middle of the road lager goes. I happily drink it- as I do Peroni, Staropramen, Zwiek (cans as not available on tap), Moretti or Kronenboug.

 

[EmmersonForest4]

We have Wrexham Lager near me and its new Club Pilsner is the dogs bollocks very nice.

 

[Notcher]

Disagree.

Can't drink Fosters, Carlsberg or Carling as they taste piss weak whereas Madri is more than decent as far as mass produced middle of the road lager goes. I happily drink it- as I do Peroni, Staropramen, Zwiek (cans as not available on tap), Moretti or Kronenboug.

I think it tastes more like Estrella

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[Redemption]

Not sure about people who drink it bring 'daft'- rather a matter of taste that differs from your own.

I love a high strength NEIPA or DIPA but don't get snobby about it to my mate's who prefer a Birra Moretti, Peroni or Madri- which compared to Fosters, Carling or Carsberg are infinitely better on the palate.

Moretti - is it Italian brand owned by Heineken and brewed in Belgium.
Madri - an invented brand owned by Coors brewed in the same plant as Carlsberg.

I agree it these beers have a better taste. I said that above.

I'm not being snobby about them but as they're invented brands, they could easily have been called Splurge and Splam, or Borscht and Solyanka, or anything and something. That they're given a faux Europeanness is a marketing trick for to say 'Dutch and Belgium lagers are old fashioned, leave them to ya Das' while these new 'Spanishy and Italinate beers are where it's at'. It's as much about encouraging consumption of lifestyle choices as it is about the flavour of the beer.

Would anyone drink if they thought it was from a brewery in Burton?

 

[Morpeth]

Moretti - is it Italian brand owned by Heineken and brewed in Belgium.
Madri - an invented brand owned by Coors brewed in the same plant as Carlsberg.

I agree it these beers have a better taste. I said that above.

I'm not being snobby about them but as they're invented brands, they could easily have been called Splurge and Splam, or Borscht and Solyanka, or anything and something. That they're given a faux Europeanness is a marketing trick for to say 'Dutch and Belgium lagers are old fashioned, leave them to ya Das' while these new 'Spanishy and Italinate beers are where it's at'. It's as much about encouraging consumption of lifestyle choices as it is about the flavour of the beer.

Would anyone drink if they thought it was from a brewery in Burton?

Give me a bottle of Binky, Plop and Sod any day.