Bill Foley

redharry said:
Not at all. Its nothing to do with boutique beers. The tradition in UK going back over hundreds of years was for dark stronger beers in the winter. There are a number of beer festivals in the UK in the winter that specialise in winter beers and many brewers that only brew such beers at that time. Germany and Belgium have similar traditions.
Of course there is nothing wrong with drinking them at any time of the year, I have no problem doing that at all :cheers:
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My one and only time of attending the Salisbury beer festival some twenty years ago was an exception that proves that rule. Height of the summer on a warm sunny day and the vast majority of the beers were dark winter ales!
Bizarre.
I never went again. :)
 
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ForHeavensSake said:
"I'm unlikely to fancy a milk stout in April unless it's snowing." Go on then - I'll show my ignorance and bite. Why is that?
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Nothing ignorant about it mate, I'm just a bit of a snob!

It's quite a rich, typically fairly strong and slightly sweet beer. The sugar in the milk (lactose) can't be broken down by the yeast so is retained in the beer instead of being converted to alcohol. The stout part means the malt is very heavily roasted giving it coffee or chocolate like flavour. Sort of like the beer equivalent to hot chocolate. It doesn't compliment a sunny spring day like a hot chocolate doesn't. It's personal though, so if you want to drink hot chocolate on your beach holiday then you do you.

I want to drink lighter, weaker beer in hot weather and darker stronger beer in winter. UK brewers would normally have a couple of beers all year round like a best bitter and an IPA/mild and then cycle between various different styles for a third or fourth beer over the course of the year. A lot of European countries do similar.

The yanks who drove the craft beer trend seemed to miss a lot of beer culture and weirdly as that inspired Europeans that lack of culture was adopted. Perhaps deliberately to distance from traditional brewing.
 
borisatha said:
As there’s no game today.
Myself and the good lady are going to a Lebanese restaurant for lunch.
I will be having a kebab with a beer from Beirut. Followed by wine from that region. Will be interesting.
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Chateau Musar is a very nice Lebanese wine available in both red and white varieties.
 
JohnHold said:
I didn't see a draughty tent in that video of customer experiences
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If so many people currently can’t get tickets, while others who do currently have tickets may not have access next season (as per the Priority Points thread), I can’t see how that’s an incentive to fly out to the States or New Zealand to see Ice Hockey or visit a vineyard simply because all are connected under the same group.
 
We really feel like we don't fit the mold in anything other than a sporting sense.

It's interesting though that he talks of crossovers and has a vineyard and a football team in NZ. I wonder if he has ambitions to acquire more businesses in the UK.
 
Kudos said:
We really feel like we don't fit the mold in anything other than a sporting sense.

It's interesting though that he talks of crossovers and has a vineyard and a football team in NZ. I wonder if he has ambitions to acquire more businesses in the UK.
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That would probably make sense, there are potentially so many leisure oriented opportunities in the UK.
 
This inter-brand fertilisation really works doesn't it?
I have to say that having succeeded in the ticket "lottery" and will be able to stand at Luton on Saturday week, I find myself compelled to spend a weekend at a winery in California topped off with a visit to Vegas to stay in an over-priced hotel, watch a hockey match and buy a $200 shirt.

Of course, for less total outlay, I could attend all of Bournemouth's away matches next season. However, that doesn't make The Group any money. So snob wines and Golden Knights it is!
 
ErikthViking said:
This inter-brand fertilisation really works doesn't it?
I have to say that having succeeded in the ticket "lottery" and will be able to stand at Luton on Saturday week, I find myself compelled to spend a weekend at a winery in California topped off with a visit to Vegas to stay in an over-priced hotel, watch a hockey match and buy a $200 shirt.

Of course, for less total outlay, I could attend all of Bournemouth's away matches next season. However, that doesn't make The Group any money. So snob wines and Golden Knights it is!
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That's a very shallow way of looking at it.

They could for example serve the wine at the club and if that's your thing you might become very familiar with it and the wine trail might be an appealing holiday which also ties in with the hotels in the USA or New Zealand. What if the hotels guaranteed you could watch a stream of every AFCB game? What if there were UK hotels near an away game and you could catch the coach up, stay overnight in the hotel and get picked up from the hotel and taken back down the following day?

It's not just about cross-selling they could use the same organisation to stream sports matches between Bournemouth, Vegas, Lorient, Hibs and Auckland with small teams on the ground sharing a common solution.
 
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