I’ve moaned previously about the disconnect between the national management of the Campaign for Real Ale (saying that membership should not expect or demand discounts on products) and the membership of said organisation (expecting or demanding discounts on products). That memo doesn’t seem to have reached local branch management. One of the local branch team was in having a loud discussion. His view was that pubs should be offering discounts to CAMRA members, as that is the only reason people join CAMRA and go to pubs.

Yes, it was the neighbouring pub’s beer festival again so there was some overspill of beer veg demanding half pints with discounts.

I still stand that The Barking Guitarist should remove the pub’s own CAMRA discount; nobody else is making up the 20 pence shortfall per pint, and all those 20p’s add up. Particularly now with all commercial bills going sky high. Only the most fickle or moronic are going to stop frequenting the premises if they aren’t saving pennies a time. If someone isn’t prepared to pay the going rate for a product they care about, they probably don’t really care about it after all.