@PeteBrownBeer You'll like this @OlafsTun. Your business model given the profile it deserves!!
Get yourself down there if you're ever in Southampton for the best cask pint in the city.
@caskmarque How is this a debate? Higher quality end products invariably mean higher costs for the producer so of course higher quality products should cost more.
If you mandate one rock bottom price then producers have to find more ways to cut costs, reducing quality accordingly.
@CharlieVivante As a Southerner, Bristol beats out Manchester for sheer convenience and (in my opinion) equal quality. London still slightly ahead (certainly in quantity) but Bristol has a better vibe across a whole weekend and feels like it values small businesses more.
@ilikeotters @emmieehw @gbbf@CAMRA_Official Really brilliant to see @CAMRA_Official taking this seriously and putting in place genuine measures for the future.
@emmieehw fantastic writing!! Though the subject was horrible, as were yours and @ilikeotters experiences, the article was really enjoyable to read.
@BeerFaerie A huge part of this needs to be breweries voting with their feet. Refuse to take part in festivals that don't have mandatory codes of conduct enforced on attendees, not just volunteers. Make sure there are instant reporting procedures.
@RobJMacKay@AdamskiM41@gbbf It should be a condition of ticket purchase/allocation.
As soon as you want a ticket, you are forced to read it.
Implication isn't working. Forced conditions need to be put in place.
@emmieehw To echo this, breweries need to vote with their feet and demand change. If a festival doesn't offer these two things in this day and age; we should not be involved in that festival simple.
You just cannot have people having these experiences anymore; it's not good enough.
@ProtectPubs @emmieehw @gbbf That only covers volunteers there (which is better than nothing); not attendees. There should be a code of conduct for attendees and the ability to instantly report misbehaviour and have it be taken seriously.