No. 7 isn’t big enough

There’s a need for a proper pub in Barnsley that sells what No 7 sells - but one that is better laid out.
Wider with more tables.
Devonshire would have been a better acquisition.
Straight outside the interchange.

 

Seems like you’ve identified a niche, go for it, put your money down and off you go. Oh, and good luck with converting the chippy that is now situated in the old Dev pub.

 

I’m just following on from recent comments about the No 7 on here.
There’s a definite need for more pubs of that type.

 

Hasn't Brownes had a facelift and now sells real ale muck ? Only 10 yards away from No. 7

 

Real ale ‘muck’.
Never tried that - is it any good ?

 

For once, I fully agree with Nudger. Barnsley definitely needs more nice ale pubs and tbf it's getting them - Tipsy Cow and Temple of Muses are both great. More please.

 

Its all the rage these days. Give it the substance of treacle and a daft name and any sucker will buy it.

Its a bit like when Magners tried to convince us the best way to drink cider was with half a pint of ice in it or the new Gin craze that's sweeping the nation even though its been around 100s of years and no one liked it.

 

What a ridiculous comment. The world would be boring if we all enjoyed the same things. Id take a pint of ale over a pint of carling or john smiths any day. Doesn't make me a "sucker".

 

Yes, and it's owned by a BFC supporter, who goes to the match with us. Now called Temple of Muses, which was it's original name, when it first opened as a pub.

 

Well - if yer know him - pass on my comments.
No 7 sells some good stuff but the pub just isn’t big enough on match days - and as such it’s putting people off going in there.
He should look for another outlet.
And as I’ve said - somewhere near the interchange would be ideal.
As most towns and cities have a proper real ale pub outside the train station.

 

It's hardly justifiable to get a bigger pub for just match days. They have to be profitable across the entire year, not just when there happens to be football on. Most pubs in town are at capacity on match days, but only for an hour before the match and then with a bit more after the match as well. The rest of the day not so much, let alone the rest of the year.

Not that I would mind more real ale pubs!

 

To be fair No.7, Temple of Muses Wetherspoons & Arcade Ale House are all 5 minutes from the station. All serve decent ale.

 

Stop being so touchy, I didn't even put that all real ale drinkers have David Bellamy beards and enjoy trainspotting(not the film)

 

There are some really nice beers out there nowadays, and a massive improvement on the stuff they use to sell at the Civic Hall CAMRA Beer festival circa1980s. I went to the recent one at Oakwell and tried the Jaipur Ale. It was really nice. I do speak as a Lager drinker who just enjoys a change now and then and therefore don’t drink copious amounts of Ales, however, I still know what agrees with my palette and is compatable with my normal bodily functions. Yuk.

 

I was on about this last week. Barmy how many people just drink what they perceive to be cool. I can’t imagine that so many people have only just realised they like gin

 

He is on about Brownes Bar nudge

 

There isn’t the demand in Barnsley for many of these kinds of pubs. Been past a few of those mentioned & they’re rarely full.

If you’re in to it it’s nice to have but they can’t run a business just on a few wanting some real ale on a match day every couple of weeks.

Truth is towns dead now except on Saturday’s.

Used to be busy Wednesday’s, Friday’s, Saturday’s & Sunday’s. Recession & smoking ban around the same time changed all that.

Town’s improved a bit recently with some nice bars but they’re still only viable businesses one day of the week which is a massive shame

 

Stop being a knob then

 

For people who haven't tried newer style beers from independent brewers (call it real ale, call it craft beer, call it what you like) that have boomed in the last five years, or tried one and have tarred any beer apart from fosters (or anything that's the same but just branded differently), try one. Go on, you might like it.

It's simply about taste. Having never been a huge drinker previously, I now drink way more than I did because drinks have flavour. In my youth it was a case of gassy fizzy alcoholic water, a bland bitter, or god forbid, the advent of "bud" in bottles (now that really was a "cool" thing that I hope has died out even in Barnsley).

On Saturday I was in Kingston at the Albion, a Smoke Brew Co which we often go in with about 40 beers on cask and keg changed every 1-2 weeks. we ventured back and near Vauxhall when we were mulling over where to go, the missus did her app magic as ever and found a big place under the railway arches that had about 20 beers on. Sunday we ventured to Nunhead and the "beer shop",a great little place with a tap of a dozen beers, loads of bottles and cans with only about 12 seats in.

within about 3-5 miles from me, there are loads of new brewers. London Beer Factory, Gypsy Hill, Anspach & Hobday, Southwark Brewing, Brew By No's, Partizan, FourPure and my current favourite, Brick Brewery.

Of course, I understand there are some people scared to try something they've never had before. I understand they gain comfort in the usual, irrespective of how much better something else may be, and I understand because of that safety in sameness and fear of change, they may decry and criticise others for enjoying something they've probably never tried.

Everyone is free to enjoy their lager, its entirely their choice. To me it doesn't taste of anything. Meanwhile, I'll be drinking imperial porters, milk stouts, berliner weisses, DIPA's, APA's, Rye Ales, witbiers, schwarzbiers, goses, geuzes, sours and fruit beers galore and trying things from breweries I've never even heard of. From UK to Estonia.

Some may wave it away as a cool fad. I just consider it tasty.

 

I don’t drink gin myself, but I’m told it’s the new mixers and different blends of gin that have made it popular. I suppose some also think it’s cool to have a glass full of fruit.

Sometimes being a cool drink means you’re more likely to try it... and possibly like it?