The Lass O'Gowrie, Manchester

Heh! You wags! I'm a pourous limestone fan too myself, hailing from Llandudno.

7 Jan 2009 23:05

The Lass O'Gowrie, Manchester

HI - Lass O'Gowrie here.

I'm sorry there was a reduced availability of ale on your recent visit. This is something we do periodically at very quiet periods like the 1st week of January and is as much for the quality of our ale as for very sensible financial reasons, which trust me are very sensible things to do in a) the current financial climate and b) a high cost, capital intensive industry such as pubs.

I'm sorry you didn't feel your pint was as well kept as usual. All I can say is that we do the same as we always have in terms of cellar procedure and cleaning, processing in excess of 1500 casks PA. Of course, what we don't do is brew it so occasionally, the final product is not always exactly the same. The perils of dealing in live produce I guess, as opposed to pasteurised products like lager and nitrokeg stuff.

Our deliveries are most concentrated once a week and we have to guestimate what to order based on what we have, how we did in the same week the previous year, what we have coming up and other factors you'd be amazed at. It is, of course a tricky science that we get right 95% of the time, but it only takes a few surges or missed bits off deliveries (more common than you'd realise) and it becomes more tricky for the odd day. This becomes even more difficult over Christmas with deliveries and ordering badly affecting availabilty and slots at a time when things are very unpredictable.

The table video games have been in situ for nearly 12 months and the 'rock' photo exhibition by Karen McBryde nearly 15 months so I can onls assume it has been a while since your previous visit.

Kind regards

The Lass

7 Jan 2009 20:28

The Lass O'Gowrie, Manchester

Hi - Lass O'Gowrie here!

I'm presuming you visited on Bank Holiday Monday, when we took advantage of one of the quietest days of the year (with no offices, University or football) to undertake a deep clean of the kitchen and get some vital maintenance in at the same time - something we clearly can't do at the same time as cook unless we invite the fairies in after midnight....

Ale-wise we were running lower than we would have liked (four were on that day, as opposed to our usual nine) which was purely down to our usual delivery being delayed by 4 days due to the Easter Bank Holidays.

Please feel free to give us a whirl again in the future! Best - the Lass...

27 Mar 2008 00:25