A Pub With No Beer

Cardiffdaffs

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Well not quite but the first pub to sell just non alcohol beers has opened in London in the premises of a good old boozer I used to play darts in but has remained derelict for a few years.

The pub is called Lucky Saint after the zero main beer it sells. Driven by demand from Gen Z.

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I've been feeling for a while that the return of the "temperance" movement would go down very well in society right now. Alcohol is such a prominent & accepted drug, it's quite bizarre really. Beer is bloody lovely tho 🤨
Some of these new zero alcohol beers taste very much like beer. Had a pint of Lucky Saint in the Wigmore pub a few days ago and it tasted better than a lot of the fizzy lagers on the market. They have come a long way since Kaliber.
 
Lucky Saint is the only draught alcohol-free beer I've tried. It's an excellent Reinheitsgebot beer. I'm not sure it will catch on everywhere but I'd certainly buy it again.
 
I've tried quite a few of the alcohol free beers. Best I've had is Guinness 0% which isn't far away from regular Guinness from a can but both are a big step down from a proper draught Guinness. All the others taste a bit watery, especially compared to a draught pint. I don't mind drinking them but the only reason I'd go out and drink several is because I've gone to the pub with friends that are drinking and I've had to drive. If nobody was drinking then I can't see why you'd bother to go to a pub. There are other venues that would be better.

Seems like a London gimmick that will grab a bit of attention but won't ever catch on.
 
There's some very nice 0% beers out there now. I still like a drop of alcohol myself though.

If there's a market out there for this, good on them for having a go. There certainly isn't as much of a market for the old school boozer is there? At least this will have the advantage of not having to deal with the more obnoxious class of drunk. Anyway, it's not the woke mob forcing drinkers out of their beloved boozer is it? The pub had been empty for 3 years, just like hundreds more up and down the country.
 
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What a brilliant idea. All I drink in AF or less than 0.5%. I'm trying to keep a record of them as I forget which I have tried and like. Very brief from the last 2 nghts :)

Northern Monk - fairly tasteless and thin
Galactic Milk Stout - very very nice
Speckled Hen low alcohol - bitter, taste of molasses
Brooklyn Special effects - very nice and one of the best and is almost a decent IPA
Guinness 0.0% - my goto pint. Lovely taste and smooth
 
. I don't mind drinking them

Seems like a London gimmick that will grab a bit of attention but won't ever catch on.
Up north it may not work but down in London if they are packing the place out I can see it very much working. You may turn out to be right but pubs are struggling big time so any new ideas to get people back is a good thing. Good luck to them.

People used to say coffee houses were a gimmick in the 80s.
 
Up north it may not work but down in London if they are packing the place out I can see it very much working. You may turn out to be right but pubs are struggling big time so any new ideas to get people back is a good thing. Good luck to them.

People used to say coffee houses were a gimmick in the 80s.
The difference is that all it takes is one person from a group to say they want a real drink and then the whole group goes somewhere that caters to everyone. If everywhere sells AF beer then why limit yourselves to somewhere that only sells AF beer?

The business model of a coffee shop requires a huge amount of takeaways. I don't think they could survive financially if they limited it to the number of seats they had because people wouldn't drink coffee after coffee for several hours and I don't think they would alcohol free beer either. I know when I'm driving and not drinking but out with friends that are I don't have a drink every round.

*I've just read the article properly and it says the pub sells regular beer but has a wider range of non-alcoholic beers than most which means it's just a regular pub. So yes, that will work fine because they cater for everyone but I would say that it is not particularly special or news-worthy because lots of pubs have a wide selection of AF beers these days. Presume it's some sort of paid ad disguised as a news story. The very end of the article mentions a few AF only pubs that lasted no time at all.
 
The difference is that all it takes is one person from a group to say they want a real drink and then the whole group goes somewhere that caters to everyone. If everywhere sells AF beer then why limit yourselves to somewhere that only sells AF beer?

The business model of a coffee shop requires a huge amount of takeaways. I don't think they could survive financially if they limited it to the number of seats they had because people wouldn't drink coffee after coffee for several hours and I don't think they would alcohol free beer either. I know when I'm driving and not drinking but out with friends that are I don't have a drink every round.

*I've just read the article properly and it says the pub sells regular beer but has a wider range of non-alcoholic beers than most which means it's just a regular pub. So yes, that will work fine because they cater for everyone but I would say that it is not particularly special or news-worthy because lots of pubs have a wide selection of AF beers these days. Presume it's some sort of paid ad disguised as a news story. The very end of the article mentions a few AF only pubs that lasted no time at all.
Clever marketing. Lead on the fact that most of the beers are zero and you get the PR
 
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