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Pubs when/will they re-open - the Megathread

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    #632
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    There’s no other way of getting a decent pint of Guinness though so if there was one nearby I would partake.

    If you lived next door to a pub offering such a service I could bend my neck around the concept. But pouring a pint of stout out the back of van after driving a mile to your gaff is not the same. There would be entire argument around can consumption at that point. I drank a slab on Friday night/Saturday morning, you don't notice the difference after 3 or 4 cans. You don't care either after another 6.

    I miss drinking Guinness on the continent 20 years ago. It used to be brewed in Brussels and over 6%. Cartwheel inducing stuff.

    It is like the canned Heino you get on City Jet, lovely stuff and nicer than pints here. It is over 5% and has a lovely kick and starker flavour. Very difficult to find in off licences now, they mostly sell the 4.3% drivel. Look out for a green can without the prevalent red star, those babies are scrummy.


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    #633
    The Nal
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    If you really miss pints that much just buy a keg and a tap.


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    #634
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 9,211 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    They put some sort of top on them to seal it.

    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-dublin-pub-delivers-pints-and-sunday-roast-to-customers-during-lockdown-11978322



    Graingers Hanlons Corner, are they connected to Graingers beside connolly station?


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    #635
    Dr. Bre
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Total gimmick, you might do it once for the craic or novelty of it. A lot easier to buy a slab of cans and throw them in the fridge.

    Drinkers don't go to the pub to just drink, they go to meet people, socialise and further their existence, to be at piece with the world, to hear the truth about Kim Jon Un. You don't get that with take-away pints, it won't catch on.

    I think there is scope for "pop-up" pubs out the back of a van in summer hotspots, a bit like an ice-cream van, except selling pints and hot whiskeys.

    I had a few pints with Kim once. He’s great craic


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    #636
    IAMAMORON
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    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    I had a few pints with Kim once. He’s great craic

    Thanks for sharing Bre. I would say he was well able to nail a few scoops. Koreans love their booze, was he on the Taedonggang?


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    #637
    Pinch Flat
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Thanks for sharing Bre. I would say he was well able to nail a few scoops. Koreans love their booze, was he on the Taedonggang?

    Kims a hound for the porter. He's fussy about the crisps though. Only king pub crisps will do when he's on the sesh.


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    #638
    IAMAMORON
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    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Kims a hound for the porter. He's fussy about the crisps though. Only king pub crisps will do when he's on the sesh.

    He never grasped me as a fussy man. I could see him do a serious job on a heap of scampi or bacon fries... and then hit the peanuts heavy for about an hour. Probably wash them down with 2 or 3 pints of Carlsberg, no farting though, I hear he has impeccable manners.


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    #639
    MadYaker
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    I miss pints in the salt house and bags of keoghs on a Sunday afternoon with a bit of trad in the background :(


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    #640
    Spanish Eyes
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    I doubt pubs will ever be the same again. Well until we all become immune or there is a vaccine.

    No point in going for a drink if you can't have the craic and mingle and argue the toss, etc. Very sad and it all happened overnight. We are doomed to non pub culture. Bet some of the Puritans will be delighted.


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    #641
    [Deleted User]
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    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    I doubt pubs will ever be the same again. Well until we all become immune or there is a vaccine.

    No point in going for a drink if you can't have the craic and mingle and argue the toss, etc. Very sad and it all happened overnight. We are doomed to non pub culture. Bet some of the Puritans will be delighted.

    They’re gloating like mad all over here already.


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    #642
    stephenjmcd
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    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    I doubt pubs will ever be the same again. Well until we all become immune or there is a vaccine.

    No point in going for a drink if you can't have the craic and mingle and argue the toss, etc. Very sad and it all happened overnight. We are doomed to non pub culture. Bet some of the Puritans will be delighted.

    It'll be back of that I have no doubt. Might look a little different for a while but we'll get there. Looking forward to catching up with everyone in the local when they reopen


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    #643
    horseofstone
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    Based on the announcement this evening it seems pubs could be back open in August. We need the craic of the pubs back ASAP, here's hoping.


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    #644
    PTH2009
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    horseofstone wrote: »
    Based on the announcement this evening it seems pubs could be back open in August. We need the craic of the pubs back ASAP, here's hoping.

    yeah its some balls

    ****ing cans and bottles for another few months so


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    #645
    Glebee
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    horseofstone wrote: »
    Based on the announcement this evening it seems pubs could be back open in August. We need the craic of the pubs back ASAP, here's hoping.

    Its going to be a long summer...


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    #646
    salonfire
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    horseofstone wrote: »
    Based on the announcement this evening it seems pubs could be back open in August. We need the craic of the pubs back ASAP, here's hoping.

    Not a chance of pubs being opened in August while we have no vaccine or cure. If they were let open, we'd be back to square one again


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    #647
    Smegging hell
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    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1256310589221208065


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    #648
    stephenjmcd
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    salonfire wrote: »
    Not a chance of pubs being opened in August while we have no vaccine or cure. If they were let open, we'd be back to square one again

    Things will have to reopen without a vaccine as it might not even come. Pubs wont be closed until 2021. Lots will reopen 10th august so long as we've progressed to that point. Let's see how the early phases of the plan go


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    #649
    MadYaker
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    salonfire wrote: »
    Not a chance of pubs being opened in August while we have no vaccine or cure. If they were let open, we'd be back to square one again

    You know better than the gov obviously? Are you an epidemiologist?

    I was hoping for July but it’ll do. Time to book a few days off work!


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    #650
    salonfire
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    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Things will have to reopen without a vaccine as it might not even come. Pubs wont be closed until 2021. Lots will reopen 10th august so long as we've progressed to that point. Let's see how the early phases of the plan go

    The rest of the economy will have to be open by then I agree, but opening pubs will make all the current restrictions redundant. As people drink, they spray more than say, people shifting strangers in the corner, running into each other at the toilet door.

    Not a chance.

    The pubs will just have to stay closed


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    #651
    salonfire
    Registered Users Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭salonfire


    MadYaker wrote: »
    You know better than the gov obviously? Are you an epidemiologist?

    I was hoping for July but it’ll do. Time to book a few days off work!

    I wouldn't have thought so either, yet here we are.

    The Government is throwing it out there to give people something to look forward to, but when the time comes pubs will be closed.

    Did you not notice any patterns to the Govt announcing of timelines and then the subsequent extending of those timelines?


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    #652
    jackboy
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    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Things will have to reopen without a vaccine as it might not even come. Pubs wont be closed until 2021. Lots will reopen 10th august so long as we've progressed to that point. Let's see how the early phases of the plan go

    They will open as cafe style set ups. There will be table service and no stools at the bar and no standing around. The old style Irish pub will not be seen for the rest of this year at least.


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    #653
    MadYaker
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    salonfire wrote: »
    The rest of the economy will have to be open by then I agree, but opening pubs will make all the current restrictions redundant. As people drink, they spray more than say, people shifting strangers in the corner, running into each other at the toilet door.

    Not a chance.

    The pubs will just have to stay closed

    I’d say the plan is by then to have good enough testing and contact tracing to find and isolate all cases so the lockdown won’t be as necessary. This is what they’ve done in South Korea and Taiwan. No lockdowns there. We should have effective treatments by then too so less people in ICU.

    I’d wonder how many can operate with social distancing though.


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    #654
    stephenjmcd
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    jackboy wrote: »
    They will open as cafe style set ups. There will be table service and no stools at the bar and no standing around. The old style Irish pub will not be seen for the rest of this year at least.

    Oh yeah I agree it'll be different but they'll open in a new normal.

    Having restaurants in June will be a good test but theres not alot of difference between small cafes, restaurants and pubs tbh. Restaurants will also be serving alcohol so what's the difference between a restaurant and a pub.

    Let's see how the first few phases pan out


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    #655
    PTH2009
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    There could be some rough heads rocking up the fancy restaurants around the place


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    #656
    pgj2015
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    would ye be bothered drinking in a pub that is only half open? you may as well stay at home drinking and have friends around. it wont be the same, you wont even be able to chat to strangers in the pub.


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    #657
    stephenjmcd
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    pgj2015 wrote: »
    would ye be bothered drinking in a pub that is only half open? you may as well stay at home drinking and have friends around. it wont be the same, you wont even be able to chat to strangers in the pub.

    Yup me and my mates have all said we'll go back.

    Anyway it's a good few months away yet, let's see what happens, alot can happen between now and then. If theres an effective treatment for example then social distancing might not be as widely enforced but it's all a waiting game as we go through the phases


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    #658
    snoopboggybog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭snoopboggybog


    MadYaker wrote: »
    You know better than the gov obviously? Are you an epidemiologist?

    I was hoping for July but it’ll do. Time to book a few days off work!

    Do you believe all that from Leo, the whole thing could be changed by the end of the first three weeks. All it does is give people hope.


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    #659
    da_miser
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    Hair salons closed until July 18, so wont be a woman seen out on the town until after then.
    If the pubs are opened before then it will be like the 1800's, no women in bars at all


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    #660
    [Deleted User]
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    horseofstone wrote: »
    Based on the announcement this evening it seems pubs could be back open in August. We need the craic of the pubs back ASAP, here's hoping.

    And only if all the vermin start behaving themselves.


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    #661
    never_mind
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    horseofstone wrote: »
    Based on the announcement this evening it seems pubs could be back open in August. We need the craic of the pubs back ASAP, here's hoping.

    Cop. The. F. On.

    A lot of places are very similar. Most pubs, since the smoking ban, make more money from food than drink and have restaurant validation.


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