Three British pub chains scouring for Dublin acquisitions

[admin]

Old news, but who is the third? The article only mentions Wetherspoons and Greene King?

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/retail-and-services/three-british-pub-chains-scouring-for-dublin-acquisitions-1.1529745

[Hop Bomb]

Brewdog?

[irish_goat]

Brewdog?

They're not really a "major" British pub chain though.

[DEMPSEY]

Brewdog?

They're not really a "major" British pub chain though.

They might say they are

[marceldesailly]

I presumed it was punch taverns.

[UpsidedownA (Andrew)]

I presumed it was punch taverns.

Why? any leads?

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

I think Punch are in a bit of a spot of bother with their debt (like nearly all of the pub company chains, except JD Wetherspoons).

[Padraic]

Brewdog?

They're not really a "major" British pub chain though.

They might say they are

I think they'd prefer to franchise bars to someone here...

[irish_goat]

Wetherspoons don't do any decent nitro stouts either though.

[irish_goat]

Hardly decent though, in Wetherspoons it's 4.1% "super chilled" Guinness as well. Even blander than the regular stuff.

[Eoin]

I had a nice pint of cask Hobgoblin in a Wetherspoons in Consett near Newcastle the other day. It's far superior to the bottles, I started to understand why it has such a large following in the UK. Only having tasted bottles previously I was underwhelmed.

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[TheSumOfAllBeers]

A lot of English ales are bland in bottle but super on cask. Try Wychwood Scarecrow on cask if you can get it.

A lot of english ale swings that way. Often better on bottle than keg, and better on cask than bottle.

It can be dramatically different at different temperatures too.

[irish_goat]

Hobgoblin in the bottle is 5.2% compared to 4.5% on cask. I've always thought it suffered on cask and lacked the malty mouthfeel the bottle has.

[irish_goat]

It pops up on cask in Dublin a good bit but like a lot of English casks that come in (excluding the stuff W.J Kavanagh's buy) a pallet load will arrive and every cask pub will have it on at the same time. Another problem too is that a lot of English casks that come over here are pushing very close to their best before date. I'm not sure how long the best before date is after racking but I've never tried Hobgoblin when it was particularly fresh.

[Eoin]

Never like Hobgoblin in bottles, and on that basis I've never tried cask.

I never liked the bottles, so wanted to give it a chance and I have to say I'm glad I did.

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