| Re: King Charles III - becoming a proficient barman Posted by JayMac at 22:07, 16th July 2026 |     |
King Charles III is becoming a proficient barman: a video news report, from the BBC, at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c74gl17w1y2o
It's a video news item, so you'll need to click on that link to the BBC to enjoy it.
It's a video news item, so you'll need to click on that link to the BBC to enjoy it.
Proficient? Still some way to go, Brian. The tide was out further on that pint than low tide at Weston-super-Mare!
You lower the glass down the swan neck as you reach the end of the main pour (displacement innit?) with one small final pull, with the sparkler just below the head, to top the ale off. Some ales benefit from a 60 second rest after the main pour for head formation.
JayMac: Bass Cellarman certificate awarded 1990. All my own work. I didn't have a wife 'helping'.
| Re: King Charles III - becoming a proficient barman Posted by Oxonhutch at 21:38, 16th July 2026 | |
King Charles III is becoming a proficient barman ...
A skill learned early on being a student geologist. Honed in my late student career when a large accounting company's recruitment event organiser closed the evening bar by the (they thought) simple expedient of removing the hotel barman.
I have to say, by the time I was rumbled, the CEO was hammered. Ooops !!
Happy days ...
| Re: King Charles III - becoming a proficient barman Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 17:14, 16th July 2026 | |
King Charles III is becoming a proficient barman: a video news report, from the BBC, at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c74gl17w1y2o
It's a video news item, so you'll need to click on that link to the BBC to enjoy it.
| Re: King Charles III - becoming a proficient barman Posted by grahame at 03:42, 20th December 2025 | |
Chat, surely? Is there a transport element in this story? Hardly 'The West' either?
This has lead to an interesting discussion within the moderator team. "Chat" is fine - perhaps "And Also" is even better, as that's a members-only board. Items posted there don't dilute our transport focus for the search engines, and allow us to let our hair down a bit more between friends. I have certainly been tempted to post, from time to time, amusing non-transport topics that aren't specific to the region or anything else, but as webmaster I have been aware of the ultimate standard I must / should set and have refrained. After this discussion, you may find the occasional post such as "Charlotte Church does not wear deodorant" in "And Also".
| Re: King Charles III - becoming a proficient barman Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 18:54, 18th December 2025 | |
Done.
| Re: King Charles III - becoming a proficient barman Posted by ChrisB at 18:39, 18th December 2025 | |
Chat, surely? Is there a transport element in this story? Hardly 'The West' either?
| King Charles III - becoming a proficient barman Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 18:38, 18th December 2025 | |
From the BBC:
King Charles successfully poured a "perfect" pint of Guinness on a Christmas visit to a new brewery in London's Covent Garden, where he tasted his pint-pulling efforts.
This was his first public visit since the King's video message revealing "good news" about the positive progress of his cancer treatment - and he seemed to be really enjoying the moment.
The King surprised some shoppers outside the event, wishing them a "Merry Christmas" and shaking hands in an impromptu walkabout in the rain. The King, who seemed in festive form, joked with carol singers that they must be "moonlighting from the Royal Opera House" and teased reporters that they were not getting to test the drinks on display.
The King was opening the Guinness Open Gate Brewery, a £73m investment which will be a new London visitor attraction as well as producing a range of beers.
There was a lesson in how to pour a pint, with the King shown how to tilt the glass to 45 degrees, and then to leave it to settle for between 60 to 70 seconds, which he was told allowed 300 million bubbles to rise inside the glass.
It was not clear who had ever counted them, but the King was ready to raise a glass to Christmas and perhaps, he might have been thinking about "good health" in a more personal way. His pint-pulling trainer, Leo Ravina, said he had poured a "perfect pint".
"If you say so," replied the King, who wiped away a foamy Guinness moustache.
The King seemed less convinced by another piece of hi-tech boozing, where he was shown how an image could be printed, using beetroot or carrot juice, on to the beer's surface. Although as monarch, he had to avoid sharing his point (or in this case pint) of view.
There was also no mention of the social media fad of "splitting the G", where drinkers try to reach a certain point on a pint glass. But the King seemed to enjoy some of the less usual beers on offer, including one with an apricot flavour. This tasting session was in the 232 Bar, named after the temperature at which the barley is roasted to get the distinctive flavour.
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