{"id":2927,"date":"2022-09-23T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2022-09-23T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T14:04:19","slug":"letters-oct-nov-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/letters-oct-nov-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters &#8211; Oct\/Nov 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEWS FROM E16<\/strong><br>In February\u2019s edition you reported on the reopening of the Henley Arms in North Woolwich (E16 2JB) and that it was selling Timothy Taylor\u2019s Landlord. I regret to inform you that, owing to poor sales, it has stopped selling real ale. According to the East London &amp; City branch website there are now only four real ale outlets in E16. The nearest to the Henley Arms is the <a href=\"https:\/\/whatpub.com\/pubs\/ELC\/110337\/windjammer-royal-docks\">Windjammer<\/a> (Fuller\u2019s), close to Pontoon Dock DLR station.<br><strong><em>Colin Price<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AVAILABILITY OF CASK BEER<\/strong><br>I respond to your editorial in the August\/September 2022 edition. In my view, most cask beer available is ubiquitous ale dictated by pub owning businesses (POBs) pedalling the pernicious, anti-competitive restrictive practice \u2018beer tie\u2019 or inflicting other corporate purchasing restrictions on pubs. In consequence consumer choice of cask ale is severely limited by POBs and indeed the pubs where I can get my favourite cask ales are sadly very few and far between! Even when I manage to track down my favourite ales, invariably they have not been kept well, especially if it is a pub that I am not familiar with. My personal bete noires are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>failure to clear the beer lines in the morning so that the first customers are not served ale that has been lying in the beer lines all night;<\/li><li>failure to regularly clean the beer lines;<\/li><li>lack of care and attention in serving ale at the beginning of a new barrel and\/towards the end of a barrel;<\/li><li>serving stale beer from a barrel that has been around for too long;<\/li><li>serving beer too warm;<\/li><li>serving beer in a hot glass that has just come out of the glass-washer;<\/li><li>discovery of installation of beer lines that are contaminating the ale with a plastic taste (thankfully some pubs that I know have subsequently replaced such beer lines).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Experience of any one of the above failures would tend to deter a drinker away from cask ale and towards the less demanding\/more consistent keg ale! This is a very sad picture which I fear is getting worse, perhaps often due to lack of management training?<br><strong><em>Tony Bell<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS FROM E16In February\u2019s edition you reported on the reopening of the Henley Arms in North Woolwich (E16 2JB) and that it was selling Timothy Taylor\u2019s Landlord. I regret to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}