Shame - Festival Beer

Help & Advice Praise or Shame
1

Ok so you pay a fortune for festival tickets - you pay a fortune for parking - you pay a fortune for food ( at least you have a choice).

Then you enter the arena and your own booze is taken off you “for security reasons”

Finally you get to the beer tent ands - what a surprise - it costs a fortune for a pint.

But what is the only beer you can buy… effing Carling! (or tins of Strongbow)

No choice mate - the organisers have done a deal with the caterers who have done a deal with a drinks company who have got a really cheap deal - because nobody in their right mind would drink the stuff unless forced to.

The lowest point at one festival was having a choice between Tuborg (Tuborg FFS!) and …er Tuborg

Look we’ve paid a fortune to be here - give us a CHOICE of decent beers FFS!

2

Some things never change, besides your date wasn’t old enough to be in a beer tent :wink:

3

:smiley: - Nah - she just looks that way!

4

The Bruce Springsteen Gig at the Olympic Park was almost £5 a pint for regular lager. It can only be corporate greed, it’s not as if they had to ship it out into the sticks. At dance events I’ve been to in Holland beer and food were the same price as you’d pay anywhere.

5

sounds like a **** event then not much of a festival with 2 brands only lol

6

All events, including the Olympics are strictly like that…

One of the reasons I don’t go to these events anymore…

7

Your problem is that you’re picking the wrong festivals!

Just returning from the Edinburgh Festival, far more fun & more reasonably priced beers than you can shake a caber at. :slight_smile:

8

Maybe :slight_smile:

I’m sure the slurry tanker emptied the foul festival bogs and then drove round to the back of the beer tent and hooked up, pumped out and Voila! 3.000 pints of Tuborg!