Vote here for Humphrey Smith!

[Max]

Use the above poll, to sum up your view of the current managerial stratergy of the Sam Smiths Brewery, (currently) headed by Humphrey Smith.

[icefire66]

it might have closed?

[Max]

Can someone please explain how you vote

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[jonniking13]

are you a spastic?...

[icefire66]

strange question! who are you refering to?

[Max]

are you a spastic?...

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[soup dragon]

I would like to ask mr smith if in his Dickensian attitude to his work force and customers is in any way linked to the mind altering drugs he must be taking, if not, hopefully his jacob marley attitude, will come to haunt him, remember the chain we form in life.........

[gulper]

sorry humph you wont get my vote in the words  of the great dellboy what a 42 karat plonker you are ........ not only have you ruined  agreat pub with your ping ping plastic  food "we counted the peas out and counted the peas back " and in the words of derek hanrahan not mark was made on them if they were a little larger we could save some money on squash  balls, now to our really serious gripe why have you dictated to us which lager we have to drink why take the alpine away and leave that insipid tastless crap which in my mind is a mirrow image of the little weasel himself an awfull larger called taddy folks have any of you been to egypt well id sooner drink tap water in egypt than drink this crap.....YOU ARE DRIVING CUSTOMERS AWAY MAN GET A LIFE LISTEN TO YOUR PAYING CUSTOMERS let me say in my own buisness i have to supply my customers with what they want not what i say they are going to get ....LISTEN TO US WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS BELIEVE IT OR NOT... WITHOUT US YOU CANNOT SURVIVE tell paying customers are we the only pub restricted to taddy ive not mentioned the pub for fear of reprisals by the humph and his lock and scaffolding brown shirts so lets all agree we want our alpine back ..........one good thing to come out of this humph your mild is fantastic please dont change it bet you will now as someone as praised something connected to taddy towers

[Max]

I'm surprised your pub has lost its Alpine Lager, as I thought that was the most popular lager.

And I must concur with your 'Mild' comment, gulper. Not a drink I would usually consume, but the Samuel Smiths Mild is very nice indeed :-)

[gulper]

well the weasel humph was in town yesterday  2nd april shame it wasnt the 1st APRIL FOOLS DAY bet he didnt get up until after twelve the alpines still off and its a strong rumour many more pubs will go down the same route .... something to do with royalties towards the alpine range well folks the taddy crap disguised as lager is 100 per cent owned by the weasel humph .
well its very obvious you will drink hump a lumpas choice so he can go boil is head or whatever the punters are fed up and leaving on mass hope you all get the choice we didnt ...what a unpleasant person sam smiths have running thier buisness hes rude to his paying customers

[Alpine Drinker]

So there we have it. What more proof do we need that Humph is trying to ruin a once great business.
He's tried getting rid of most of his best Managers
He's reduced staff and hours to a minimum
He's rid pubs of atmosphere with no music or T.V
and still the business won't lie down
What could he possibly do next?
Ofcourse, take out the companies best selling product
Samuel Smiths R.I.P

[357maddog]

I thought it was odd about 12 months ago when suddenly they upped the ABV of the Taddy, rumour had it (as usual cos the brewery tell you f--k all) that there was an issue regarding the licence for the name "Alpine" and the ownership thereof. (or something along those lines).
And that eventually the Alpine would be phased out, however most of our customers who normally drank Alpine also tried the new improved Taddy...almost all of them hated it...too sweet.
If they do decide to remove the Alpine completely then I agree with Alpine Drinker, it will be the final nail in the coffin.
This is extremely serious, if he thinks he can do this and see no effect he is in for a very rude awakening, it is suicidal.
I myself drink the wonderful Sovereign but have drank the lager in the past, Ayingerbrau or Alpine as its known these days is legendary across the country.
The lunatics have definitely taken over the asylum this time.

[Alpine Drinker]

Yes Maddog i to heard the rumour about the license.
The way I heard it though was that Ayinger was brewed under license and
was up for re negotiation and he would not pay the increase so
He made his own version and called it Alpine which I believe was the name used
some 20 years ago (older drinkers please varify)
If this is the case it really doesn't make sense.
But then anything that this scruffy megalomaniac does, rarely does.

[357maddog]

As the "legend" goes Mr. Ayinger is the gentleman portrayed on the pump head...the guy in Tyrolean type dress.
It was Mr Ayinger's brew or "brau" hence the name Ayingerbrau.
The name change happened quite a lot of years ago I think...cant remember when though.

So the rumour regarding the name and ownership does seem to be true, but if Sams "copied" it and changed the name to Alpine Lager I cant see where the problem with licence or maybe a trademark issue would be.
As usual with Sams everything seems to be clouded in secrecy so you immediately suspect foul play...its their own bloody fault for breeding this air of underhandedness...lol is there such a word as underhandedness or have I just invented it.
Anyway I do know that I freqent quite a few Sams pubs and there will be an almighty uproar if the try to force everyone to drink Taddy.

I suppose as is usual we will just have to see what unfolds cos you can bet your life if you ring the brewery and ask, you wont get a straight answer.

[Alpine Drinker]

I can remember ayinger being brewed by shipstones brewery in the 80's
then Greenhalls took them over I'm wondering if thats when Sams
took the license over
sorry if we have transgressed from the original post but it has been very
quite of late where is everybody?