American Reacts to Do Not Do This In An English Pub

Get ready for a cultural showdown as we dive into the quintessential British experience - the English Pub! In this episode, we discover the challenge of deciphering the unspoken rules and faux pas one must absolutely avoid while stepping into an English pub.
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[@mikecaine3643]

Best thing to do in an English pub is - just go there and enjoy yourself and don't watch crappy videos telling you what to do and not do ! You'll figure it out !

[@LG-cz6ls]

Especially when most of the "rules" stated in the video are nonsense.

[@scottythedawg]

buy your own drink. You are not required to buy 10 drinks when you are only going to drink 2

[@ninja36inc]

hardly worth going out if you only having 2 may as well get 4 cans for the price of one pint and drink them at home

[@scottythedawg]

@@ninja36inc its a light lunch lol

[@ninja36inc]

@@scottythedawg only if you get crisps lol

[@SR1Records]

Not watched the whole video yet, but i'm assuming that you're referring to the 'round' system here? It should be common sense, but if there's 10 of you and you can't handle 10 pints you won't enter into the system, lol. Depends how long you're planning on staying out for, i guess.

[@scottythedawg]

@@SR1Records yeah it never works out, id rather just get my own and the odd pint for other people. That way i can drink at my pace, not be left waiting/keep others waiting. Thats not to say I never do rounds but not a fan of it.

[@vobchopper]

I know it's ridiculously expensive in London, but up North it's considerably cheaper, and local beers can be had for £3.00 - £4.00

[@alrafter1593]

In the pub I went in today there was about 6 different real ales for £2.34. There was one under 2 pounds. I guess all the people in the UK know which pub chain it was.

[@sunnyjim1355]

@@alrafter1593 Yes, I expect so. 😂 But I hear recently that they are going down the 'no cash accepted' route.. so they can f-off.

[@alrafter1593]

OK pay double for the same stuff. Incidently I have never used cash at all since covid started. It's much easier to pay someone and you get an instant notification from your bank. also you can see exactly where you spend every penny. Also your trouser pockets no longer get worn out by the coins.😄😄😄😄😄 .@@sunnyjim1355

[@danielferguson3784]

People from abroad have been commenting on British drinking culture since the 12th century or earlier. It's only recently that people in the UK began drinking right out of the bottle. This was almost unheard of before the 1980s. I still prefer to get a glass, after getting bottle fragments in my mouth once! It's also a bit uncivilised to glug from a bottle!

[@whattiler5102]

I want see what I'm drinking in a clear glass!

[@jonathangoll2918]

One or two further explanations. A lot of pubs used to be 'tied' to a particular brewery,, and some still are. If a pub can select whatever beers it wants, it is called a 'Free House'; this doesn't mean the beer is free! The quality of beer has improved in the last decades, mainly because of the activities of CAMRA, the 'Campaign for Real Ale'. Each year they produce a directory of pubs in Britain serving the best ales. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, helped in the early 2000s by a tax concession to small high-quality breweries called 'microbreweries'. In a Real Ale pub, the beers are often graded so you know whether you're getting a dark strong ale, or a lighter one. A Real Ale pub will often allow you to taste a small glass of an ale before you order a pint of it. (Remember an English is bigger than an American pint, because of the different sizes of the Imperial and US gallons.) We know about US Craft Beers, but these are often expensive. There is also a lot of very good ciders. BUT A TERRIBLE WARNING. All British cider is 'hard cidet', and is often very alcoholic. ON NO ACCOUNT mix drinking cider with drinking strong Real Ale. Mixing the two seems to aggravate the alcoholic effect. You have been warned...

[@paulhadfield7909]

11. never drink in a pub with bouncers, 12. be prepared to defend yourself in a fight,

[@alphamale068]

This is so true!!!

[@alemgas]

Never drink in a pub with a flat roof

[@eddisstreet]

I couldn't fight my way out of a paper bag

[@whattiler5102]

When on the topic of drinking in British pubs bear that "a lot of people were pissed" about the ban on smoking does not mean the same to us. We would say 'pissed off'. 'Pissed' just means drunk!

[@bordersw1239]

In the words of my old pub landlord and boss, come closing time. “ Do your talking, while you’re walking” or better “ Get off your arses and finish your glasses” 😂

[@Otacatapetl]

In one I used to frequent many years ago, it was "We've got your money, now **** off".

[@HardyRose22]

​@@OtacatapetlBrilliant! 😂

[@user-zu6ir6kj5g]

I'm very lucky, in that I live close to my "local" which was recently voted the best pub in London. Over the 30 years I've been drinking there I've met people who've become my closest friends. There's been marriages, births and deaths, work and housing sought and found, large amounts of cash casually borrowed and lent etc. - so much so, that we're really intertwined with each others lives. A good pub can truly be the glue of the community. Regarding closing time, in many "proper" old-school pubs, there is a "lock-in". At the end of the evening, and after people have finally made their way out of the pub, privileged regulars/locals will stay on behind locked doors, to drink until whenever. Many a time I've still been there in the morning, eating breakfast at the bar with the landlord.

[@petercollins1104]

11 o clock is last orders not closing time you. Have 30 minutes after last orders to drink what you've ordered. The pubs hours are longer at weekends.. Average cost of a pint in the north is £3 to four quid

[@user-zu6ir6kj5g]

I'm moving North.....@@petercollins1104

[@JJLAReacts]

I envy that so much! I feel like it's something that's missing in our modern lives in the US.

[@user-zu6ir6kj5g]

I guess your equivalent (weird as it is) are your church based communities.@@JJLAReacts

[@richmorris2870]

A pint of lager (chilled, ale is cellar temp) in my local pub in Worcester in the West Midlands of England costs £3.60, though prices are rising he's quoting London prices. By the way you are by far my new favourite American reaction KZbinr. Keep 'em coming! 🙂

[@corringhamdepot4434]

UK bartenders are not out front taking orders. They can serve many more people in the same time at the bar. They don't need tips to make up a living wage. You will only see a "potboy" come out sometimes to collect dirty glasses. A lot of younger people now tank up on cheap supermarket drinks before going out, or try to sneak a bottle into the clubs.

[@mickstaplehurst8471]

Britain IS NOT a particularly expensive place to drink, try going for a pint in any Scandinavian country! London is probably very expensive compared to some areas but in general the average cost is not too bad.

[@whattiler5102]

London IS expensive! But more out of the way and 'down-market' places are much more reasonable. I don't think anyone has mentioned Wetherspoons yet!

[@LG-cz6ls]

@@whattiler5102 Try Iceland. And I don't mean the freezer store...

[@noggintube]

I went to visit a friend who'd moved to Finland. The cost of a round made my eyes water.

[@countertony]

I remember going to a bar in the gaslamp district of San Diego and doing the inverse of #2 - I went to the bar and ordered my drink (Arrogant Bastard ale, I believe), took it to a table, drunk it, then returned my glass to the bar before leaving.

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

It depends on where you live for the cost. A pint is under £4 in most pubs near me.

[@delskioffskinov]

Usually last orders (last call) is shouted or dinged 10 minutes before closing and then when bar is closed you have 10 minutes to finish your drink! for me as a Barman this is when I get the most hassel because someone is having a great night and don't want it to end and always complain!

[@sarahradford9822]

I was a barmaid in my youth and the landlord used to put brass band music on if people weren't leaving quickly enough...it was effective 😅

[@Jinty92]

In Scotland the round system doesn't really happen. Small groups usually per table out £10 each into what is called a Kitty. Someone writes down everyone's choice of drink and then one person goes up to the bar and collects them all. If someone is driving then they often put in £5 and if people are on bottles of wine then they tend to share it between two and won't put into the Kitty. When the money runs out, people will often put in another £10. I tend to just put in the once as I am not about drinker although sometimes I switch and put in £5 later on for soft drinks. It is not a rule that you must and I whenever feel pressured. I have never heard of try before you buy. I was happy when smoking was banned in pubs, cafes, restaurants, etc as I have asthma and used to come home from a works night out with a site throat and tight chest and my clothes and hair stank of smoke.

[@whattiler5102]

Kitty system is sensible.

[@whattiler5102]

@@rjb29uk I always thought that was a sensible arrangement.

[@lesley4085]

Maybe depending where you are in Scotland or an age thing. My friends and family do rounds, always have, I work in a local pub and the regulars do rounds, they are older 😊

[@germantoenglish898]

I always go to pubs with live music...even dad bands are great after a few beers.

[@marycarver1542]

You have it ! English pubs , especially country and village pubs, are social hubs!

[@gallopinggargoyles7891]

I've never heard of try before you buy, and i'm 36! lol

[@RandyuTuned]

It's more common with real ale and cider drinkers to ask for a taster which is about a mouthful or two and you are allowed to ask to taste all of them if you really want too. you can ask to try large but lets face it they all taste similar.

[@whattiler5102]

It got to the point that just about the only place I spent serious amounts of cash was in the pub. That changed, for me, during the Covid restrictions when many pubs did not want actual, physical, notes and coins because of the obvious infection risk to their staff. Since then I just pay by contactless card.

[@sunnyjim1355]

I will continue to pay by cash for everything from a private business, and anywhere else I can too - no way am I buying into a 'cashless society', literally. If a business declines to take my cash, then fine - I'll go and take my custom elsewhere.

[@whattiler5102]

@@sunnyjim1355 Fine, if that's what you want to do; it's no skin off my nose!

[@dee2251]

@@whattiler5102he’s right though. The governments around the world want to monitor and control exactly what we earn, save and spend. Cash is King.

[@davidmitchell1391]

An English expression for an elderly "lady" who can drink an enormous amount of alcohol is, "Crikey, she must have hollow legs!"

[@Mardenski100]

True alcohol drinking age limits in the UK : 5 at home / 16 in a pub if to be consumed with food (not just a bag of crisps), limited to lager, cider or wine not spirits and bought by an adult / 18 to purchase alcohol

[@trevortidey9508]

A digression regarding smoking in pubs or more about when you used to be able to smoke in pubs. In smoking allowed days when a pub was redecorated the ceilings were painted in nicotine stained coloured paint to deliberately make the pub have a well used ambience about the place and not look too new

[@totalplonker824]

There's a large expat British community in Santa Monica California and before we used to go out, it was almost standard tradition to drink a six pack. If I remember rightly back then (late 90s) the max alcohol volume level was at 4.5%. Just wondering if it's still the same.

[@jamesfarragher3066]

You don't ALWAYS have to drink in rounds. For example, if you go into a pub just for a quick hour or so then you're probably only going to stay for 2-3 pints...if you bump into a group of friends already at the bar one is probably going to ask you 'what are you having?', which is an offer to buy you a drink and involve you in the round already underway. If at that point you decline and make it clear you're only stayung for a couple and then leaving, it's perfectly acceptable to buy just you're own drink and stay in their company and conversations etc. But if you accept the offer of a drink, you then become part of that round of drinks. In that case, the polite action is for you to buy the next round of drinks as the newcomer... then it rotates around the company you've joined until back to you. Oh... and never ever leave just before your round comes up again or you'll never live it down. If it's your round next but you don't have the time to stay for the next drink, the bar etiquette in that situation would be to offer to buy the round without your drink included as you have to go. Most always this offer will be declined politely, but you'll gain kudos amongst your company for the kind offer and it will be remembered. Weird lot us British when you sit and think about it really...

[@steveaga4683]

In general, lager is served at 3-4 degrees C and ale is served around 13 degrees C.

[@gpjones1986]

Blasting heavy metal music would encourage me to stay not leave.

[@HardyRose22]

Getting a round in is not mandatory at all. If you accept a drink in a round then you are acknowledging that you will get a round in later on. If you don’t accept the round then you won't need to reciprocate later on. Some people will still insist on getting you a drink in their round, but as long as you're open about not having enough money for a whole round later on, or the person has made it clear they're just being nice and not expecting anything back, that's alright too. Guess it mostly just depends on the people you're drinking with and the reason you're out. One example - it's common for everyone to buy a drink for someone's birthday and for them not to have to return the round.

[@karlkuttup]

in the uk we allso have after hours lock ins ,normal action to get this is 1 know the owner or staff ,2 know a few locals that know said owner or staff ,wales in the 1900 10 20 30 40 50s 60s 70s 80s you couldnt get a pub to open on a sunday ,you wanted a pint then it was the rugby club for beer,i know 3 pubs were you can smoke in a side room used t be called the snug room has extractor fans in them so no smoke travells through the pubs

[@777petew]

It's not something we do every night - go out and get tanked up. These days, we would do it for a celebration, but younger people are more inclined anyway. As for our ales, it's a fairly subtle difference between cellar-cooled and room-temperature beer. If you insist nursing it all night then it will go to room temperature. But as a seasoned British drinker, I've never experienced that phenomenon. The beer is served cold, not chilled. It's subtle, but you get the taste of the beer you are sampling much better. If you have a raging thirst then have lager or a cider. 😊

[@DM-it2ch]

Drinking in rounds is dying out- I rarely see it in my local anymore.

[@neilmcdonald9164]

I didnt know about the try before you buy thing...abd I'm British!...but then I always go for Vodka and something 🎩

[@neilmcdonald9164]

Prices vary a bit round the country being more expensive in cities (especially London)🎩

[@nikkihayes5411]

Until recently i had a home in France and some village pubs have gone back to smoking indoors.....including the police🚬👮‍♂️👍🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

[@fiddyb]

If you love a Guinness then you should try a Black Velvet, it's half a glass of Guinness in a Champagne Flute topped off with chilled champagne. Very smooth.

[@kathryndunn9142]

Get as many drinks in as you can with the bell. And time make sure you drunk them. Or a disco

[@TukikoTroy]

In the early 70s, the beer of choice for younger drinkers was either 'lager tops' (a pint of lager topped off with a half inch of lemonade) or a 'lager and lime' same as lager tops but with lime instead of lemonade. Don't know if these are still a thing; discovered ales by the time I hit 20 and never went back.

[@whattiler5102]

I remember, back then, ordering lager and lime (blush). I spent a period in Amsterdam in the 70s and my first time in a bar I ordered 'lager and lime', they clearly had no idea WTF I was talking about! I have never ordered it since!

[@lesley4085]

Interesting video and mostly spot on, certainly right about the pub being a social place to gather. I live in a very small town in Scotland and we have six pubs, most weekends I’ll be meeting up with friends or family in one or two, cheers 🥂 (and a pint is under £4)

[@22seanmurphy]

A lot of people here in the UK go to the pub which will close at 23.00 and then go onto a club which will be open until 2-3 in the morning.

[@nathanmiller9632]

Still get a pint for under £3 in Newcastle.

[@johnp8131]

You can, even in London if you go to a less tourist influenced Sam Smiths pub, or lower your standards and go in a "Spoons". You'd usually have to be drinking the cask ale though.

[@sunnyjim1355]

In Newcastle you can still have a good night out, a bag of chips, and still have change from a 10-bob note.

[@vallejomach6721]

@@sunnyjim1355 A 'bob' was a shilling...and even in Geordie land I don't think 50p goes far these days. Not even buy a canny bag a Tudor...if they still existed.

[@vikingsbeard]

I lived behind a pub that did karaoke every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 6pm to 3am, for 12 years, it's not fun, it's bloody annoying, pub quizzes are fun though, once did a 13hour pub quiz, fun times. now i stay home and drink whisky by myself because they banned smoking in pubs and a pint cost an arm and a leg, when i started drinking a pint cost £1.30 or 80p for the shit stuff, now it costs over £6 for a bloody pint, or nearly £10 a pint in some places, ridiculous, and they wonder why people dont go to pubs anymore lol

[@irvingrayson6593]

Never ever ever have i heard of a pub letting you taste a drink before buying And I have been in some Pubs all over England

[@whattiler5102]

It's normal in lots of pubs I've been in (South of England, west Wales, Bristol, etc. You just get a small taster to; I do it more often now because I find many of the beers on offer now, can be very different to what I've been used to most of my life.

[@sunnyjim1355]

It's more usual in what's called 'Free Houses' though i.e. those that are not owned/tied to a specific brewery, etc. And such pubs often host beers that change over time, rather than a static selection - so politely asking for a small sample of an unknown beer is perfectly fine, especially if you're a 'local', of course. But if you go into any pub, and end up sampling all the beers and declining them all, then that's not going to go down too well. 😂

[@whattiler5102]

@@sunnyjim1355 I've never heard of anyone doing that. If someone tried that they are not going to be very popular with anyone. Apart from anything else they are tying up bar staff and there are only so many draught beers, etc. No one is going to start opening bottles for them!

[@stevewilldo3056]

Speaking from my own experience, when out with mates full rounds aren't really a thing, it's more about standing up and saying "Who wants another?" or clocking who's nearly finished and asking what they're having since you're the one going up to the bar anyway. At some point in the evening it gets reciprocated. Only times I've been involved in full rounds have been with a mixed group who don't all know each other so well and each basically taking turns at the next pub you reach

[@Andrew_J_R]

Liking your reactions a lot. +1 subscriber

[@keithsowerby8179]

The advice is dated in parts. Paying by card is more common than cash (the British are big card users) and many city centre pubs only take card. Since COVID hours have gone strange and some pubs (especially micropubs) close by 9 or 10 or remain closed Monday and Tuesday. Beer is considerably cheaper up North than in London. Also beer is mainly draught and not bottle. It depends the group you are with whether rounds are bought in the UK, but generally no. Ireland is different, with rounds being more common

[@user-TonyUK]

I am surprise you never mentioned the Age Limit in Pubs, from Day 1 of a Babies life to the day before Death, HOWEVER the Legal age for drinking Beer and Spirits is 18, but I remember going into the Pub while still at school (approx 14 yrs old) and getting a soft drink or a shandy (half beer half Lemonade) and that was quite legal.

[@neuralwarp]

18 on licensed premises. No limits at home or with food, if under adult supervision.

[@LG-cz6ls]

@@neuralwarp An under 18 can have an alcoholic drink with a meal on licensed premises. They can't approach the bar to buy their own, though.

[@nothing0062]

The biggest annoyance of mine is if you're waiting at the bar and the barman/woman has lost track of who's next, then someone jumps in ahead of you. That's bloody rude.

[@johnp8131]

A question from one of your other videos. A 20oz Imperial pint of draught Guinness, in "rural" pub in the East of England costs around £5.00 ($6.30 today). I can easily pay a pound more or less depending on the pub. London and the surrounding area is more expensive and it usually becomes cheaper as you travel north, tourist areas excepted. Ale is usually cheaper, unless it's a stronger or specialty ale? Lager/Pilsner is normally more expensive too, even the weakest ones? These prices are based on draught beers not bottled. Drinking beer direct from a bottle tends to be something that has crept in in recent years and is fashionable with some, mainly younger drinkers? However, when you read how dirty the bottle can be around the neck and cap? No thanks!

[@DaveBartlett]

For the attention of US viewers: a UK pint is 20 imperial fluid ounces, where a US pint is only 16 ounces. OK, so the US fluid ounce (29.574ml) is larger than the imperial fluid ounce (28.413ml) but when you take into account the number of fluid ounces in 'a pint', a US pint is 473.176473ml whereas a UK pint is 568.26125ml, so in effect, a US 'pint' is approximately 0.8327 of a UK pint - so bear that in mind when drinking in the UK.

[@Joyce-Barker]

Last two years upon visiting in the Uk all they wanted was cards..Their cash gets out of date as well.especially pound coins..so annoying and I was born and raised there till my little fam left for Canada.

[@user-TonyUK]

On the whole Lager is chilled and Beer is served at room temperature

[@SR1Records]

Might be worth watching and reacting to this - kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2bOaYarlMqeaM0 We have different levels of "going out" in the UK. Like you observed, the pubs close at 11pm. If we're going to the pub, we're "going out". If we then decide to go on to a night club for the rest of the night we call it "going out, out" lol. EDIT: Actually, thinking about it, you don't always enter into the 'round' with everyone you go out with. In the past, i've been out with around 10 people, but only 4 of us will enter into the round system, so to speak. It's not planned, it's not discussed. It just sort of happens. And it's not always with the same people out of the group. I guess it depends on who needs their next drink when you need your next drink and it's like i'll get these, you get the next. We don't all enter the pub at the exact same time, so we're often at different stages in the pint, lol.

[@CamcorderSteve]

I have not been to a pub for quite a few years now, apart from having a meal there. Is it true that you can now sample a beer free of charge before committing to a full pint? That's news to me.

[@neuralwarp]

There are different rules for trains, boats, aircraft, hotels, colleges, clubs, etc.

[@legend9335]

He did not mention that it is not ok to push in front of someone at the bar. That could be very dangerous depending on what sought of pub you are in. Some can be very rough.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Nightclubs are open later, there's a very different vibe, unless you're in a power drinkers pub... You start the night in a pub or with a pub crawl, because most pubs are social, nightclubs are for the hardcore all nighters and hook-up scene...

[@johnstrac]

Pub quiz and karaoke are reasons to AVOID a pub ! Also, go straight past any pub with a sign saying "coaches welcome" (that's buses not athletics advisors).

[@caitsiph1]

There's a difference between a pub and a bar and we have both in Britain. Pubs are your communal quiet drink most days, and more comfortable for people to chill in alone or with friends or family. And ale is served between 10and 13 degrees and lager is cooler between 2 and 3. And ale is defiantely an acquired taste like coffee and marmite youbeither like it or hate it.

[@neilgilbert6798]

If you local enough then sometimes you can have a lockin were the pub is shut but you are still inside drinking with the owner and London is we'll expensive compared to the north were it's cheaper

[@gallopinggargoyles7891]

Rounds are not needed. Its too bloody expensive, buy your own drink. Getting pissed in a pub doesnt have stupid rules. lol

[@jimmarshall2757]

Beer outside London is cheaper, alway try the local beers if the pub has them, next be scared to ask, our bar staff are great and yes we pay by are or app. 🍺🍺🍺

[@craigfalconer1205]

It's not the closing time any more as most pubs are open till abourt 1am now.

[@lynnhamps7052]

Rounds aren't compulsory, especially if you are a designated driver, non drinker or in a large group...2 or 3 of you, fine, ten is excessive...just ensure you are all on the same page at the start of the evening..if you are out celebrating someone's birthday or upcoming wedding, then it's traditional for everyone else to each buy the celebrant a drink without wanting one in return.😊

[@mattbentley9270]

Ha this guy is funny good choice mate

[@xneurianx]

Not outdrinking the British is sensible, but some people will have no problem keeping up. Japanese Tokyo business people who are used to the Tokyo drinking culture will probably be okay. Germans and Austrians will be fine. Some Americans will be fine. Your hooch drinking rural guys. If you're American it is VERY important to remember that most British beers/lagers have a higher alcohol content than US beers/lagers, and that our pint is actually 20% larger than a US pint. So each pint you are drinking can comfortably have double the alcohol to a US pint. If you usually drink 5 or 6 pints on a night out in the US, aim for 3 or 4 in the UK, or you're going to get a lot drunker than you intended.

[@efnissien]

With smoking in pubs, there may be new legislation where it'll be illegal to smoke in the beer garden.

[@juliedawson8027]

The dark side of this is that there is a real issue with alcohol abuse, and unhealthy behaviours can be totally normalised in a way that ius very dangerous. It's also really difficult if you don't want to drink - the only "acceptable" reason to abstain is if you are driving. I like the pub atmosphere and I don't have any issues with drinking (other than the above) though I can take or leave alcohol myself, but I often feel excluded or judged because I prefer not to drink. I also have friends who struggle with alcoholism who are regularly bullied into drinking for the sake of being "social".

[@martinwilliams5154]

Quiz yes. Kareoke ( cant even spell the abhorrence) no.

[@JJLAReacts]

LOL

[@tonytwobins4964]

Newcastle brown ale all day .

[@tonycookson4699]

As a music lover, I detest karaoke.

[@sunnyjim1355]

.... ikr, and chavs. Pretty much go hand in hand.

[@thedisabledwelshman9266]

they are not called bartenders in britain,

[@JJLAReacts]

Oh! What are they called?

[@thedisabledwelshman9266]

@@JJLAReacts barman or barmaid

[@pem...]

@@JJLAReacts these days it could be mermaid too

[@sunnyjim1355]

It's no longer acceptable to address a barmaid as 'wench', sadly. 😂

[@papercup2517]

@@JJLAReacts Or the person serving you drinks could be the landlord or landlady - these are the owners or managers of the pub.

[@uppyraptor49]

Lager is served cold

[@alphamale068]

since the pandemic - all pubs readily accept card, phone or watch payments.

[@nodiggity9472]

Just don't look at my pint, and don't spill my girlfriend . . .or something.

[@whattiler5102]

I find there is a number of pubs that don't allow smoking even in the beer garden now!

[@alrafter1593]

There are a lot which have smoking and no smoking areas in beer gardens.

[@sunnyjim1355]

Fine. If they don't want my custom then I'll take it elsewhere. Their loss.

[@enemde3025]

This should be BRITISH pubs. Scotland , Wales and Ireland have then as well. Bars and pubs in the UK are two different things. I have never seen a pub that closes at 2 or 3 am !! DON'T stand at the bar once you have been served. Move to the table so someone else can get served. There will be NO chairs at the bar either, like in America. Guinness in bottles is VERY different to that served out of a pump. Beer and Lager are both served cold from the pump. " Ales" are usually from a bottle and may be just chilled a little. You won't get warm drinks. The price of alcohol depends where you live in the UK. I can get a pint for £3.50 in my town , but in London it may cost you double that or more !! The smoking ban is not just for pubs. It's ANYWHERE indoors ( apart from your own home), including your car if you have children in it under a certain age.

[@mattymcnally]

Karaoke sucks unless you like the sound of a dieing cat and the quizz nights are normally dead quite I would recommend a disco night or a local band playing

[@Dazza5007]

Now we are out of the EU we should have smoking in pubs , where food is not served as it will bring back the business that for sure 😂

[@mareahgoody8546]

Don't know where he has been drinking lol don't have to go in rounds and try before you buy not in any pub I have ever been in don't see meny if anyone I know drink out of a bottle either and depending on where you are from depends on the price of your pint

[@marksimpson1007]

If you ever come to uk i own a caravan on a holliday park.youre welcome to rent it 👍

[@dee2251]

I’ve never smelt pee in a pub.

[@malcomflibbleghast8140]

granny fiddler eh?!

[@jumpjet777]

What, she played the Violin too?

[@seanoreilly7293]

He is talking about england.

[@rosaliegolding5549]

London pubs are t the real deal , this one’s more like a bar , hence it is mitt a pudb you need to go to the towns and villages to experience a pub so don’t think they are like this all over UK

[@bengreen4162]

Mate don’t take what this guy says about pubs because from what he’s saying he doesn’t go to them haha

[@stevensmith204]

Don't listen to people pontificating on a subject they are not familiar with, like this ejeet !

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

Who orders a bottle of Guiness though? Back in the 80ies we here in Sweden didn't have Guiness on tap, so it was the only option, but in the UK/Ireland... Brits can drink, but I'm pretty sure Scandinavians are better at that "skill", the most, I had, at a festival was around 12 pints of beer and a bottle of Vodka. And I'm not particularly good at drinking. And we have nothing to Russia, Poland, the Baltic states, or Finland. They CAN drink

[@JJLAReacts]

Yeah, part of the beauty of enjoying a Guinness is the head, which a bottle doesn't do! Wow, you have an impressive tolerance!

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

@@JJLAReacts Well, I used to. I don't drink that much nowadays, but you know back in the day, hanging out with Punk Rockers and other hard drinkers. Drinking all day, and on a festival drinking 4-5 days in a row, the tolerance goes up. I think I can still down 12 pints, but probably not too much hard liquor on top of that.

[@johnp8131]

I think they are referring to beer. Never done Sweden but I have had some very good sessions when in the military whilst on detachment in Norway a couple of times and in Denmark. We drank a lot with the locals and could outdrink them on beer. However, especially in the north of Norway, due to the beer prices, they would often sneak out of the bar temporarily to drink the local "Moonshine" from a bottle stashed outside the bar in a coat or a car! We just stuck with the beer.

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

@@johnp8131 What we did back in the day, was get more or less wasted at home with friends before going out. the alcohol at pubs was EXPENSIVE. in 1990 a pint of lager would be £6 more or less, so we had ten pints at home and then went to the venue and had perhaps two there. It's kind of funny looking back, but it was a skill that we learned, see the pubs, bars, etc were not allowed to let drunken people in, so we had to learn how much we could drink to still be let in, but also how much to drink to not have to pay the prices at the place for too many beers

[@johnp8131]

@@matshjalmarsson3008 Wow! even more expensive than Norway was? When I went to Andøya around the Summer of '87, a 500ml beer was just under £4.00 (four times a UK pint), however in Stavanger, a few years later in '94, I could get the same for £2.50, if I went in a bar for the locals. Stavanger was about the same as the more expensive London prices back then? I never found out why the price came down so much? Also, in central Denmark, most people seemed to drink the bottled beer in a bar, however I was surprised when we went into a couple of local pubs in Viborg that the equivalent draught beer cost less and was larger too? 330ml bottle, compared to 500ml draught.

[@nevermindthebollocks1171]

Has this bloke ever been in a pub

[@Dragonblaster1]

I always pay my pub bill with my phone.

[@sunnyjim1355]

ewww

[@Dragonblaster1]

@@sunnyjim1355 ????

[@DaveBartlett]

If a woman in her '80s could outdrink you, you needed a hell of a lot of practice in drinking in an English pub.

[@petejones7878]

you do not have to buy rou7nds if you only buy your own

[@adeaston6553]

Avoid Karaoke bars at all costs. Unless you want to hear some bloody awful singing at a loud volume.

[@cookeymonster83]

DON'T do the "try before you buy" thing just anywhere. Some upmarket pubs may not mind but if you try it in a little local pub and you are not already known as a regular you will be judged to be a bit of a dickhead for asking to do this.

[@whattiler5102]

I don't find that at all.

[@LG-cz6ls]

A lot of these "rules" are complete nonsense. Please ignore.

[@uppyraptor49]

They can open all night if they want but they dont

[@charliecosta3971]

Can I say you are getting confused. Pubs and bars are diffrent. He is only referring to pubs. When he said pubs shut ar 11 he didn't mean bars. London has a 24 hour drinking licence. Pubs are more tradition, bars is where you go to purposely get drunk and try and hook up. Bars are where you will have all rhe main sports too etc though pubs do somewhat show sports.

[@JJLAReacts]

Yes, yes I am confused. But your comment helps. Thanks!

[@BP-kx2ig]

Ale is not sweeter!!

[@Warbaman]

This videos old... bout £9 for a shitty beer like a budweiser in a normal pub in London now

[@ninja36inc]

that's fucking shocking prices bet its watered down as well

[@Warbaman]

@@ninja36inc its made watered down 🤣 lucky where i live its still £5.50 but that's still way more than im willing to pay more than once every few months... used to go out 4 nights a week pre-covid now i just buy crates from aldi £10 for 16 bottles 😅

[@ninja36inc]

@@Warbaman yeah it's cheaper to drink at home even more so if you drinking spirits

[@Warbaman]

@@ninja36inc get a good wine in the offy across the road for £4.. £12 a night to get pretty drunk 😅

[@johnp8131]

A beer for the tourists and the ignorant, I'm not surprised at the price? Mind you, my mate went into a busy London pub just before covid and they wanted £8.00 for a Guinness, however with a meal deal, he could have a Burger with a Guinness for £7.50. I wonder how they worked that one out?

[@user-hl4vj7md7x]

English or British it's not the same thing its so annoying

[@sunnyjim1355]

Sorry, but the video being reacted to was overall pretty naff. And I can't believe it didn't even mention the etiquette of queueing! If you go to the bar to get served, make a mental note of who is already there before you.... you are after them in the 'queue'. Now, good bar staff will take note of this too, but mistakes do happen, especially if it's fairly busy.. so, if a member of the bar staff offers to serve you before it's your turn, you really should inform the staff member that another person is before you. You should also expect this courtesy to be extended to you, but if that doesn't happen, there is absolutely nothing wrong in speaking out to say you were actually next 'in line', so to speak - as long as you don't be a dick about it! Be polite and courteous and everything will be fine. That's why the vid probably didn't go into this topic; it's a social norm, but it's also a bit of a 'faux-pas' minefield. 😂

[@PGHEngineer]

Yep. And in a very busy pub with people crammed up against the bar, put some notes in your hand so the bar staff know who is still in play, even if you will actually pay by card.