7 Ways British and American Pubs Are Very Different
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There's something wonderfully democratic about the British pub, in that most people use them (at least sometimes). A couple of weeks ago I had lunch in a 400 year old pub, in front of an open fire, quietly reading my book. Other customers included couples, small groups and other people on their own, across a wide range of ages. Staff took the time to have a brief chat with me but otherwise left me to my own devices.
A perfect afternoon.
I can tell Laurence has been Americanised.
We never say someone has been carded. We don't know what it means.
I was puzzled by that.
Then he said something about ID, so I’m guessing it’s asking for an identity card which we don’t have here.
I know when I was 18 I used to have to carry my driving licence, then a little red book, as I looked around 15.
I think most British people that watch movies know what that means.
@@andyjohnson4907 I don't often watch films so "carded" doesn't mean anything to me or a lot of other Britons. It seems to be an American word.
Yeah I've never been carded but i get ID'd all the time
Of course us Brits know what it means. It means you've been booked for a foul, obviously
Closing at 11pm is generally understood as "door's close" at 11pm. What follows is a "lock-in", where everyone still left in the pub will continue drinking until 1 or 2 in the morning.
Yeah but you gotta pay with cash as using your card will tip the government that the pub isnt closed and breaking the law/terms of their alcohol license.
The tan hill pub had a 3 day lock in last week due to snow
@@geoffpriestley7001 lol 😆 are we crazy in England 🏴
Ah yes...a "stay behind" as I used to call it...🥴
As a barman in Luxembourg I dreaded the new influx of American university students. They would come in ready to get 'f*cked up!!!!" Three drinks later they would be at least one of them throwing up.
We sold Belgian Beers of 8 and 9%, not Bud Lite.
When I visited the US back in 2000 I was shocked to see that bars were so often racially segregated (in effect). Different races seemed to have separate bars. We ended up walking into a Korean bar and it went deathly quiet, but being British (and thirsty) we completely ignored this and strode to the bar, which seemed to surprise the locals.
They discovered our accents and we spent the entire evening there having a whale of a time.
In the UK, a good pub is a melting pot of heritages, and all the better for it. Its the centre of the community, and with us having more integrated communities I guess it follows that we have more integrated pubs. (I know I'm generalising, plus it was 21 years ago).
Now that's interesting... I wonder where you are in the UK... conglomeration was something I found quite fascinating when I moved from England to Ireland, where people wearing suits and lads wearing trackies, elderly families and college students would all drink, sing and dance together, enjoying the music, without any notion of class or race. It was bloody refreshing. Back in England now and I find that we do tend to segregate a lot based on class/wealth in comparison... at least in the East Midlands... not just the patrons but the attitudes of the staff (if you don't look the part, you will get shit service and essentially you need to f off).
@@sleepyfox8983 I agree, which is why I carefully inserted the word good before pub.
@@petereastwood1, your experience with you walking into a Korean bar reminds me of what happened to me when I walked into a black bar in San Francisco many years ago. I was alone at the time and there was only another one or two white men in there. With it being in that city it was also a gay bar and was located on Market Street which is not too far from Castro Street ( the main gay area of that city ). The couple of white men that were in there were Americans and were with their boyfriends.
So if you can imagine this poor little white boy ( myself obviously ) unknowingly walking into a black gay bar then you can well imagine the looks that I got from all of the regulars in there, can't you? I got the same reaction as you did until I started talking to the barman and almost all of the men that were in there started firing questions at me about what the U.K. was like - on almost every subject imaginable. It turned out that I didn't have to buy a single drink all night because even the first one was paid for by one of the locals as soon as I ordered it and he came out with the typical line of " I love your accent...." and all of his friends and acquaintances in there followed suit and continued where he'd left off.
The funniest part about it was that prior to going to San Francisco I'd been living in Canada for five years or so and my accent was a combination of British and Canadian but they all assumed that I'd come straight ( sorry, no pun intended ) from the U.K. to their city. We all had a great time talking about all of the cultural differences and social attitudes between all three countries and it ended up with me leaving there and travelling back to where I was staying by taxi.
By the way, I'd told all of them that I wasn't attracted to black men during part of our conversations and they respected me for being so honest with them and they even said that they weren't used to such honesty coming out of the mouth of a white man in the U.S.A. and some of them even said that they couldn't wait to visit either Canada or the U.K. so that they could experience such liberalism for themselves.
@@sleepyfox8983 I think you're drinking in the wrong pubs then. I've just spent the evening downing Bass with a retired couple, a company director, a couple of unemployed chaps, a lorry driver, a Brickie and some students.
Played 7 card brag (lost £4) and a great conversation about who the best ever goalkeeper was.
A good pub is the soul of the town 👍
City pubs maybe, but if you walk into a rural pub as a non white person you get dodgy looks and a moment of silence when you walk in.
Not one mention of pub food? Food is a huge part of many British pubs these days, since the drinking culture is changing and most establishments have to entice people in by other means than alcohol alone.
pretty much all American "pubs" and "bars" offer food. actually a lot of them offer the same kinda thing, fish and chips, steak and chips etc.
Pub food tends to be shit though.
@@sibionic it depends on the pub. Some are good, some are bad, such is the way with anything really.
@@Shard3432 I would say all chain/big brewery owned pubs - which alas is a sizeable portion of all pubs now - almost without exception have lousy kitchens and reek of malt vinegar and are awash with laminated menus and crappy 'condiment' trays. The best pubs are independent and have a reputation for food - so called 'gastro' pubs - and these can be as good as any restaurant. But not that common.
@@sibionic I dunno I guess it depends on where you live. In Greater Manchester I find that most pubs nowadays are independent, mostly due to many of the chain ones failing.
The best pubs these days are what are called Micro Pubs, we have a lot of them in Kent in particular, three in my home town alone. Small independent pubs that specialise in locally brews beers from small breweries with relatively low overheads. Friendly, great conversation and excellent beer.
The number of people offering to take you drinking when you come to Britain means either
A) you're going to spend the whole trip so drunk you won't remember any of it.
B) an enormous group on a pub crawl.
I haven't seen a darts board in any pub round here for many years, it takes up too much room that could be filled with drinkers. Same with pool tables.
Pubs closing times vary from 11pm - 2am (depending on the day of the week) in my experience
Lawrence seems obsessed by trashy lagers. In the UK every brewery worth its salt brews a complete range of pale ales, IPAs, bitters, stouts (porters), light ales and even alcohol-free ales as well as lagers. They often have peculiar names like "Fuzzy Ferret", "Hobgoblin", "Doom Bar", "Spitfire" and "Old Hooky" and vary in strength immensely. The US also has small independent breweries that brew a comparatively restricted range of ales like "Alaskan Amber" and "Full Sail", to name but two, but these are often regional and very hard to find.
Bitters and ales tend to be both stronger and more flavoursome than lager, and so are more often the beer of choice for an evening of good conversation and banter rather than lager which just allows for massive consumption and for getting rat-arsed. The comparison is akin to drinking a fine Chateauneuf du pape compared to drinking Hock or Blue Nun (probably over-selling that a bit, but you get the idea).
It’s fursty ferret. My husband likes that one.
can't beat a local IPA, Stout, PA, Ale, Bitter or lager - preferably in a 'schooner' / 2/3 pint / 380ml.
As a Brit I can tell you right now I love Wetherspoons. No more congregating aroud the bar, instead you order from the app and they bring it to you. I can tell he hasn't been back in a while.
Wetherspoons fan here, too, for the same reason! 👍
No atmosphere in any Witherspoon's...like drinking in the kitchen looking at the wall
Love Wetherspoons. Me and my mates have at least one spoons sesh a month, but it’s not quite as good as the local with your mates and a few games of darts/pool and a lock-in for the regulars after
then you walk 7 miles to the toilet
The best 'pub' experiences I have had in England have been sitting in the Beer Garden at the height of summer having Lunch and a couple of pints with some mates. I also have fond memories from my childhood of going with my parents to do this (although, of course I was only allowed to drink soda - children may be allowed in the beer garden but they are not allowed beer). Also dogs are sometimes allowed in pubs and beer gardens. I have heard of, but not personally observed, dogs being allowed a beer (unlike the children)
Dog's in pub's used to because it was an excuse to the "missus" to get out - "Just taking the dog for a walk love. Won't be long." .... and straight to the pub!
Pub's back in the day resembled Vet's surgeries, there were so many dogs lying under tables! 😆
@@danosverige they still do where I live in Herts, they even have snacks and water bowls for them. Also one pub, has a picture wall of the canine customers
I'm quite happy for my local pub to shut at 11am, like a lot of UK pubs it is sat in the middle of a residential area. I can walk home from it in about a minute.
aww jps thinking that he could handle a night out drinking in the UK, practice lad, practice, avoid sambucca its game over juice haha
Hold up my man, what's Game Over juice? :p Sambucca used to be my friend but (speaking of differences in measurements) I was only used to our English 25ml shots... when I first moved to Ireland, I had a standard 35ml shot of the stuff and had to take a few moments to recompose haha x
Yeah avoid stella it has chemicals in it that make you aggressive and give you a brutal hangover
@@sleepyfox8983 😂
@@UTRG-UnderTheRain Stella, aka 'Wife-beater' thanks to one of it's more notorious side-effects.
Lightweight
I started going to pubs in England since I was about 14. All my mates did. We don't have compulsory ID in England, but never got asked anyway.
I don't believe you. Any pub that routinely allowed children to drink would lose its licence. I work in a shop and we have to ask for ID from anyone who looks under 25. If we sold alcohol to a 14 year old, we face serious legal consequences.
If you are telling the truth, your parents and the owner of the pub should be locked up.
@@helenwood8482 haha this was back in the early 80s. A common thing back then.
@@helenwood8482 you sound like a whole lot of fun
@@helenwood8482 believe it!! Back in the late 70's and early 80's, my older brother and I were both locals to pubs (we went to different ones!) and started about 15yrs old with our friends. The pub owners rolled their eyes when we eventually celebrated our 18th birthdays!!
My father often gave me a lift, so knew where I was (I had responsible parents!!) but sadly no longer with us, so too late to lock him up!!
@@helenwood8482 everyone turned a blind eye to this in the 70's n 80's when the pub trade only started to lift it's image and the laws became more stringent! So calm down a bit as the Challenge 25 thing only came into effect a few years ago, after Challenge 21 and Challenge 18 before it!...
I work in a pub! Love barwork. And trust me. You won’t be able to handle a night drinking in the uk!! We drink like there’s no tomorrow 😂
Also I pray you do a meet up with fans if u ever come to the uk 😂
Here in the UK I've been going in pubs (to drink British Real Ale) for over 40 years and never once with the intention of getting pi$$ed. A waste of money and not much of a night out if (the next morning) I cant remember what happened!
There are plenty of great pubs and beer over here so well worth a visit, you'll enjoy it!
I'm British and I started going into pubs at 15. By the age of 16 I was a seasoned veteran and never got challenged. But then, there was no ID in those days. Discretion was left to the landlord. If he or she believed you were under 18, you simply didn't get served. If you looked 18, you did. There was no problem. I can't help feeling that the obsession with ID which requires everyone to carry it well into their twenties is nanny-statish amounting almost to control mania.
Yes if you looked under age you sent your friend to the bar to get drinks. When I started going to night clubs/discos (early to mid 80’s) aged 16 they let all of the girls in for free before 10pm as they knew that if they had plenty of girls in the boys would come down and spend money on them.
I was refused service in a pub when I was both stone cold sober and 26 years old. The barmaid simply would not believe I was over 18, no ID in those far off days. Now that I’m a little older (74) I appreciate the benefits of looking younger , although I am still frequently challenged by rail staff when I show my Senior Railcard as they don’t seem convinced that I’m over 60.
Sorry J but he's waaaaaaaay off the mark! The UK he describes is nothing like the one I live in! In my area most pubs are open until at least 2am... the nightclub I own is open 'til 6am! He's obviously led a very sheltered, dart board dominated, back street pub inhabiting life! Come on over and see for yourself! :-)
Big shout out to the Wolverhampton Crew.
there are lots of variations. most city centre smaller bubs & bottle bars it's last orders at 23:50 and 11:00 stop-tap. but many of the bigger ones are open until 00:00, 01:00 or even 02:00! 18 over here of course (with exceptions for over 14(?) & a meal with an adult. I like the craft ale bars like Brewdog, Tiny Rebel or the independents.
Sheltered life? Yes probably Bus Shelters, Air Raid shelters and the like.
When I was a uni student in the UK, we often went to the cinema. The problem was that in those days the pubs closed at 10 pm, so in a group one person had to volunteer (depending on the film) to rush to the pub before closing time and order the last round. As I wasn't very fond of beer or stronger alcohols and wine was not on the "menu", it was usually me. So I left with assurances that someone would tell me the end of the film - didn't happen very often as most of the group had already been drinking flashes in the cinema and were too pissed after the last glass in the pub to remember - those were the days !!!!
When was this in 1880 I’m 36 and I’ve never known the pubs to shut at 10pm
@@ianmcconnell12 They used to shut early on Sundays?
The closing time was 10.30pm on Sundays and 11pm every other day. Never 10pm.
US TV shows aren't usually known for their accuracy, but to be honest one of the best representations of what an American-style 'pub' (not bar) is truly like is in the US sitcom 'Cheers'. As Laurence says, they're often called 'taverns'. Alcohol-heavy, no food except snacks, lots of wooden furniture.
The drinking culture is different in the US. My cousin lives in Florida and whenever he meets up with fellow Brits for an allday session, they think they're all alcoholics 😂😂
Many Brits are. Basically, if you are drinking every day or regularly getting drunk, you have a problem.
@@helenwood8482 agreed. But where did I say it was everyday?
@@helenwood8482 I drink every day, and have done so for fifty years. The health nazis would only be happy if people drank water alone. Soft drinks? Too much sugar. Tea, coffee? Too much sugar and/or caffeine. Milk? Too much fat. Water is a disgusting, vile drink, and needs to be turned into beer or cider to be palatable.
@@allenwilliams1306 completely agree, why on earth people drink water over beer or cider i will never understand. I drink most days and everyone i know basically does the same but then again in the welsh valleys its compulsory.
@@helenwood8482 Funny, certainly when I was younger virtually everyone drank every day.
Lunch time, a couple on the way home, tea, washed changed out for the evening. Pubs were always packed, business and courting was often in the pub. Everyone new each others name including the publicans, often a couple. Ah, those were the days.
UK closing times vary enormously. When virtually all pubs closed at 11pm, the culture was, assuming you wanted to stay out, to go on to a late night bar, restaurant or club. Though even back then, there were plenty of pubs with late licences. They just had to provide space to dance, or proper food, in order to apply for such a licence. There were also pubs in, or near to, wholesale fresh produce markets, or docks, that had 24 hour licences. His view could be a little out of date too, as there are plenty of pubs with late licences nowadays. Especially in city centres. It's also possible to get up, first thing in the morning and go straight to a pub!
Before WW1 there was no official closing time. Pubs could open whenever they wanted. War regulations changed this and 11am until 11pm became the standard opening times for most pubs, as the wartime regulations were not repealed until round about the Millennium.
Closing time is generally last orders and stop selling beer time, there’s nothing that says you can’t buy 3 pints at 10:55. Although unless you have a very friendly landlord, you’re usually only given 30 minutes to drink up and leave.
Pubs in Scotland generally open until 12 and have done as far back as I can remember. Some are open until 1 am now.
most uk day drinkers, dont get drunk, they know their limits
The 11pm pub closing time is in England. While in Scotland it is usual for pubs to open till midnight during the week and often 1pm or sometimes 2pm at the weekends. Then there are nightclubs which are even later. In many cities if you know where to go by moving from one establishment to the next you can often drink for near on 24hrs.
In the UK every Wetherspoons has at least one TV and every town/city has at least one Wetherspoons. Where I live there’s a nearby monastery that brews the only Trappist ale in the UK. It originally had an abv of 11.5% but has now been reduced to 7.4%. Either way you don’t need many before you pass out.
Local pubs in the UK stay open till midnight or half past midnight. But bars tend to be open till 3 or 5am
I love it that you didn't get the fly tipping joke LOL
I've not seen a pub in the UK that shuts at 11pm they stay open longer than that
Years ago people in England played darts. Dominos. Cards. Pool & all sorts whilst drinking their pints or half pints. It’s changed now. It’s now pool & gambling machines mainly. All pubs can ask the local authorities for different closing times. It depends on if there as been any troubles like fighting or drugs.
Pub classes at 11 or 12 but you usually have a lock in when they close doors but let you stay later. But after the pub we will go to the clubs ect. These are open till about 5am.
It's a long time since pubs closed at 11.00 pm here in Failsworth - most are open until 2.00 am .I'm surprised he only mentioned lagers - all pubs serve draught British beers and most serve food .Witherspoons for some reason seem to get a bad name - I can't see why I've never found one I didn't like !
I think Wetherspoons bad name comes from the C**t that owns it! Treating the staff like slaves, zero hour contracts, minimum wage etc. The food there is cheap and cheerful, the beer OK.
@@lemming9984 That isnt true, thats a misconseption, no one is on zero hour contracts, or min wage and no-one is treated like slaves, everyone is treated very well, and get an abundance of perks working there. As much as Tim Martin owns the company he doesnt run the company, there is a board for that.
@@lemming9984 he is one of the best bosses in the business, workers get paid above NMW, they get bonuses if its been real busy each month, they get shares in Wetherspoons at the end of each year, i know people in Wetherspoons near me and they have worked in there for over a decade and to retain staff working in a busy pub like they do like that is a credit to how he treats his workers...
It all depends on where the pub is located.
I worked at the Licensing Office for a year during a break from teaching in 2010.
An ordinary licence to sell alcohol to be consumed on the premises still states that the place is licensed to sell alcohol between 11am and 11pm.
An additional licence has to be applied for if it wants to stay open for longer than that.
It's not automatic that a pub/club will get an extention to it's licence, it depends on the police and the magistrate who issues it. In the case of City Centre places, there's usually no objections, and they are granted - but, the police - or members of the public can register concerns with the magistrate about the noise levels /disruption etc... that late hours may cause to neighbours where a pub is located in a residential area - these applications are usually turned down, except for special one-off events like New Year's Eve.
All applications for premises licences to sell alcohol are vetted by the police, and public notices have to be displayed on the premises about a month in advance for any change to the hours of business to allow for objections to be prepared before the magistrate grants the licence
@@gillianrimmer7733 Yawn, you can drink on the premises if you bought in legal time, like im buying 20 pints at 11pm dingaling, im on my own and the owner is gonna let me take my time i can sit there until opening the next morning supping my 20 pints....
its not a good night of English drinking unless you wake up the next morning with a traffic cone
I remember when I turned 18 last orders had to be called at 10:30 and you had ten minutes drinking up time. We’d then have around twenty minutes to get to the bus stop for the last bus home at 11. They still had the inspector blow his whistle to ensure the last buses didn’t leave early. The opening hours were quite restricted then with them opening around noon and closing at 2:00 or 2:30 before reopening at around 6:00 for the evening. I can’t remember the exact times now. As they’ve changed quite a few times since.
Drinking age has always been 18 but with a few exceptions. I seem to remember at one time that the 18 limit applied to the bar but not an adjoining family room but those rules have changed over the years.
Welcome to the UK Joel. Hope you enjoy your stay and meet lots of friendly folk and enjoy our countryside , history and heritage
closing at 11pm is basically the pubs choice based on demand and not very likely on a Friday or Saturday.
We say bar to distinquish between the bar and the lounge which are part of an establishment.
two pubs on my hometown in Derbyshire UK are open till 4am and one directly opposite open until 6am at weekends
Manchester’s village pubs should be an eye opener for you.
In the UK, City Centre and town centre pubs tend to stay open until 2am or 3am. It's mainly your local pubs or countryside pubs that close at 11pm (although many will have a 'lock-in' for regular customers to stay and drink late)
Theres individual pubs here in the UK. Pub chains such as Weatherspoons. A lot of pubs aim for showing footie,or rugby,and especially on match days,and ESPECIALLY those near stadiums or town centres can been packed solid and rowdy on match days. There are quaint Gastro Pubs than serve tasty full course meals. The riverside and village pubs are quite rustic,cosy and connected with history, Ian Mckellan owns The Bunch of Grapes,Narrow Street,Limehouse,London,If u want a small,quiet,sports less pub that is?
You can fight in a war at 18 ,but can't buy a drink. Backwards
Pubs close at 1am and clubs close at 3am/5am in Scotland.
The minimum age for drinking in a restaurant or beer garden is 5, it's only 18 in a bar or to purchase alcohol.
You can tell Lawrence is upper class lmao
Elephant and castle is a district in London.
South of the river
I lived there for 8 years - Loved it
A right dump now. Like most of London tbh
In the U.K. we have ‘bars’ as well as ‘pubs’. Pubs you can go for meals and find a wider selection of beers and cider on tap instead of bottles (good pubs will have locally brewed stuff). Many pubs are family friendly and serve ‘pub grub’.
We have bars in the U.K. but you need to be over 18. There tends to be louder music but places to sit and some food options. E.g. tapas style. There’s usually more options for cocktails to drink and less beers on tap, more in bottles. Sometimes bars can turn into a club after a certain time in the evening.
So yeah pubs and bars both exist in the U.K. but are different things!
We in the UK go to a pub for the craic and enjoying friends company, then get drunk 🥴
I will always buy a pint for any overseas visitor from anywhere because I want to hear their story.
I'm 66 years old and was born in the east end of London had my first beer in a pub when I was 14 years no problem it also came with a knowing wink from the old boy behind the bar, I started smoking when I was 13 you could buy a packet of five Park drive cigarettes for one shilling and threepence which is about 7new pence in today's money, biggest regret smoking just starting to have trouble with my lungs even though I stoped ten years ago. But I still take 3-4 pints of beer a day.. lovely jubbly 😋
Our village pub had a lock in, at 3 am a police car pulled into the car park flashing its blue lights just to let us know it was time to go home.
55 degrees Fahrenheit.
In Belgium, Stella Artois is considered one of the worst of their hundreds of beers.
You would be most welcome to the UK. All UK followers are now queuing to take you to a pub.
Very surprise you don’t have more subscribers. You have a thoughtful intelligence that belies your tender years. English isn’t my first language, so I’m sorry about the bad English - I’ve had to translate it in my head from the Gàidglig , or Scottish Gaelic.
I live in Walsall, England and we have a pub here that has been licenced and open since 1627. Come to England and I will buy you a pint (A full pint not your American short measures)
I’ve been in Australia since 1983 but I seem to remember pubs opening hours were roughly 12pm to 3pm and 6pm to 11pm. They were never open all day. Plus Sunday was 10 or 10.30 pm closing. I believe it goes back to the war years (unsure if first or second WW) when they didn’t want workers drinking at lunchtime then returning to work, especially munitions workers I assume.
I think it was not long after that that the afternoon gap (3-6) was abolished. Apparently the government minister responsible forgot to move the amendment putting it in the bill.
@@DanielsPolitics1 It was the Monster Raving Looney Party that first put forward 24 hour licencing laws! Everyone said it would never happen...............!Despite their name there are quite a few things that are now mainstream that they first suggested - lowering the voting age to 18, legalisation of commercial radio, passports for pets amongst others.
Lawrence bless him is out of Touch...
English pubs also have loads of TV screens everywhere though the weatherspoons chain is a exception and everyone knows at least one place where you can get a drink even at 6am...
Lawrence comes from a upper class family and most of his videos are his experiences so he isn't always that clued up on the working class culture and evident in this Video about Elephant and Castle... its not about having loads of castles it's actually a rough neighbourhood in South London called Elephant and Castle.
If you ever want to come uk hit me up, you can stay at mine in the wonderful Peckham area of South London.
I noticed the Elephant and Castle reference too; I was surprised he didn’t know what it meant.
I watched one of his videos when he went home to his parents. They're not a posh family, but they live in a nice suburban area.
I think that local pubs in quiet areas are very different from pubs in busy towns and cities.
@@miaschu8175 yeah but he always does state it is based on his experiences so I'll give him that
The beers that were classed as British typical beers were actually lagers and apart from Stella not particularly good ( in my opinion) . No mention of real ale, bitter porter ,stout ,cider etc Just saying
Theres nothing wrong with stella, I don't know why people think its trashy but I think some some largers do taste the same though.
@@Aloyus_Knight
My French girlfriend used to drink Krononberg 1664 when I first met her In London. But she was surprised because every pub we went to, I would buy a different beer. I told her it was because different pubs sell different Ales and that's why I always ordered a different one. What's an Ales she asked ? Here try it I said, which she did, and her eyes lite up, wow she said , that's really nice. 23 years later, we are still together, and she hasn't drunk a Larger since. 🍻👍😎
Yes, I was puzzled they all seemed to be non-British, mass-produced bottled beer. My memory of British pubs from the 60s up until the early 80s was of local or other British bitter, light and pale ale, or stout etc, all on tap. More recently, when I've been back home to visit, they seem dominated by craft/artisan beers from smaller producers, with the specific brews on offer changing regularly. There seems to be a lot more variety and interest in flavour in a 'foodie'/gourmet sort of way, and also meals seem to be offered now in most pubs, which wasn't the case back in the day.
One thing I really dislike is the trend to fashionable /millennial' makeovers - I long for the comfort of a shabby, dimly lit pub with dark wood and comfy seating - yes, and a dart board!
Even before the changes in the Law it was possible to drink round the clock in London legally, by visiting late night clubs in the West End, followed by the main wholesale markets such as Billingsgate which were open for the special needs of hard working workers. Likewise there were pubs open at non standard hours near to Steel works and Coal mines, to service thirsty workers at the end of shifts.
Even in the small market town where I lived the pubs were open from very early to late at night on Market Day.
Few pubs around (what used to be) Smithfield Meat Market, still open early but are too expensive to visit as 'a pub' i.e. the Fox and Anchor serve a Full Monty Breakfast for £13+ and then add in a pint... Paying over £20 for the experience... Even a bacon butty is over £8.00!!!
Unfortunate, to my chagrin, children are now allowed in British pubs but cannot drink. I well remember as a child being left outside the pub and being supplied a couple of times by my dad or uncle with a bottle of pop and a packet of Smith's crisps. (there was no other make in those days but you did get salt wrapped in blue paper ). Now there is nowhere a man can go for a quiet pint without screaming children running all over the place.
Pubs close at 11pm but bars and clubs are 24 hours or until the staff tell you to piss off.
Went to the U.S. aged 18. Imagine my disappointment on learning the drinking age was 21😂
I ordered some cutlery from Amazon. The courier asked for proof of age. I'm 62 with a full set. I just laughed at him and closed the door.
One main reason that our pubs close at 11pm is that in the UK we don't have zoning regulations in the same way. Many pubs are literally next door to residential properties, so the closing time is meant to reduce the night time disruption to nearby homes by drunk folks and pub music.
If you're out and about in town and you want to extend your night beyond 11pm the most common thing is to go on to a nightclub which stays open until the wee hours of the morning.
Nightclubs are not situated next to residential homes (generally speaking).
In normal times (pre-covid) Scotland’s pubs closed at midnight Sun-Thur; and 1am Fri & Sat if they have a late licence. Not sure what laws are in Wales and NI but think it may only be England where pubs close at 11pm.
Can't remember the last time I saw someone playing darts in a UK pub.
Pubs near me SE London, some stay open until 1-2.. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a pub that shuts at 11 xx
The pubs in my village are open until midnight. Laurence hasn't been home in a long time. !!
Or Australia!!! Lol our beer is cold not warm.🤣🤣🤣🤣
The legal drinking age thing applies more to buying alcoholic drinks then consumption, which is a different thing entirely. If someone whose underage try to buy a drink in a pub they're not going to get served but if someone whose legally old enough buys a drink then hands it to a underage person they can drink it. Just be careful around little jimmy after he's had 5 or 6 pints as he can be a pretty mean drunk.
The term “carded” is definitely an Americanism! We might say we were “ID’d” or “asked for ID” but never “carded”. Though, I think in the context of what he was talking about, it doesn’t take a genius to establish he’s talking about an ID card.
Go to an Irish pub in Ireland knocks the socks off either of them!
Where I live in the U.K. it’s primarily housing with the odd small shop (newsagents, hairdresser, convenience store) dotted here or there. We also have a few pubs. The reason the pubs here haven’t been able to get a later than 11pm closing license is that people don’t want drunks people waking them up in the early hours so the local council refuses late licenses if people want to drink late they can find pubs and clubs in retail areas or the town centre that operate late licenses that won’t disturb residents. It makes sense to me. Our town is fairly walkable so it’s generally easy to stagger home, or the taxis are plentiful.
A Briton walks into a pub and falls over drunk, an American walks into a bar and falls over with concussion!
The pubs would close at 11pm, then it was time to hit the clubs and they would shut around 3am.
Shame he didn't mention food. One of my favourite things about pubs is finding a local countryside pub and going for a Sunday carvery.
Just thinking the same thing. Nothing better than a good country pub and a Sunday carvery.
Even before Covid struck over 900 pubs were closing permenantly every year in the UK. They don't make a decent profit from beer. More is made from soft drinks - £3 for a pint of Coke. The most profit is from the sale of food. Those that can't compete go bust. With the price of alcohol a fraction of pub prices in supermarkets people tend to stay at home with the vast selection of cable and satalite entertainment available and the enormous selection of food available for home delivery.
Afternoon drinking, or Noonies as it's sometimes called
Most pub in UK have food and a door man now also a have a large TV to watch the latest Football matches I think he need to come back to UK
The guy presenting Lost in the Pond is really entertaining and the content is accurate but there are some generalisations there. For example, there are quite a few bars in the UK that do open beyond 11pm, especially at the weekends. UK also has two distinct types of venues..."pubs" and "clubs" with the latter often opening late but not closing until maybe 5am. There are clubs in the US too of course. Our bars and clubs can be just "local" or they can be themed such as being about a particular type of music, TV sports (mentioned in the video) or specifically appealing to gay clientèle.
I think one big difference between US and UK pub-going habits is just down to how the day is organised. Prime time TV in the US, when the big talk shows are on, is much later than in the UK where prime time is about 8pm so it seems that people in the US tend to do everything much later but still manage to start their working day at the same time as the UK!
On table service, I don't think that distinction is accurate. I have been to plenty of bars in Massachusetts, New York and California where you go to the actual counter to get served. I have also been to a few bars in the UK where it is at seat service. I think the distinction is more true of UK versus continental Europe where anything other than at seat service is very rare.
The guy didn't talk about one important difference...the types of alcoholic drink. He mentioned Fosters being Australian but actually, Australians will tell you they've never seen it there. It's a marketing gimmick. A lot of UK drinkers consume this awful, fizzy and bland lager such as Fosters, Heineken and Carlsberg. We do have Budweiser in the UK but it is nothing like the US drink which is stronger and has a fuller flavour. There are some nice German lagers. Our beer is a little influenced by Germany just as our chocolate is influenced by Switzerland. One thing that unites more discerning drinkers in the US and UK is ale. Indian Pale Ale (IPA) in particular and the US is blessed with an increasing number of "micro - breweries" that produce quality beers. Boston, Mass. is particularly renowned for a range of quality ales and is of course, the home of the famous Samuel Adams.
I think there has been alot of convergence of the"night time economies" of the US and UK. It is driven by people in their 20s and 30s and that is the age group where cultural differences between UK and US really break down and people are inclined to enjoy the same things, be they American or British. When I have been to the the US, going to a bar has never struck me as radically different from going to a bar in the UK.
I'd love to take you for a pint...or "go on the piss" or "get pissed". But though I know you're keen not to just visit London, I really do live miles from anywhere in the city of Plymouth in the far south west of England. Some great places to go out drinking for an American wanting to really experience the UK would be places like Bath, Bristol, Cardiff (Wales), Manchester and Edinburgh (Scotland). In the UK, it's often the case that "lads go out to get pissed and go on the pull" (try to find a partner) so you might end up with a nice British girlfriend (or boyfriend...homophobia in bars is fast disappearing!) at the end of your drunken night out 😁
It's easy. In the UK (this is before 2015) PUBS would have to close at 11 but BARS and CLUBS didn't. I use to work in pubs and would get absolutely hammered after work in a nearby bar or club, lol.
One thing I noticed when I last went to America was that many of their bars - physical bar itself - were U-shaped. In the UK, you see this sometimes but generally it’s one long straight-line shaped.
Joel, when you visit the UK, come to Reading (only 25 mins on train from London) and I will definitely get you some pints. Reading has tons of pubs to visit. You can also try out cider, something that’s common in the UK but I found hard to find in many US bars. Many didn’t know what I was talking about when I asked if they serve cider.
It's common for almost all the pubs in our uk region to close around 2am
I remember at a pub, when drinking after the closing time, the landlord asked us to leave by the back door as the police was at the front door.
At my local, the local bobby would be at the bar, and at 11 pm, he would say, i'm off duty now lads, meaning to the barman, lock the door ,
Oh, a UK pint is 568ml. draught (keg, cask) beer/ale etc MUST be sold by the 'pint' or sub multiple - half or two-thirds. Wine is 125/175/250ml or by the bottle 750ml. Spirits are (england and wales) 25ml or a double at 50ml. (Scotland and NI have a larger default). Canned beer is in 500ml, 440ml or 330ml and the occasional 12 US.FlOz import can. Bottles are usually 500ml or 330ml - I have seen some 660ml beers in the fridge. The bourbon size you call "a fifth" (heard in US films) is20% of your gallon, so ~757ml. Our standard bottle is 700ml usual size for whisly, gin, vodka etc. However, we tend to get the full litre at the airports.
Yes let’s go for a drink and sample a few ales 😊
We do have pubs and bars that cater for sports and have many tv's and big screens
Good to see the late Great World Champion from Scotland Jockey Wilson got a screen shot .. Best ever in any sport that was pissed playing the Game he loved ,,, what a great job...Name anyone who could throw a dart Drunk like Jockey.
A lot of pubs are family run in the UK so they do close early, but the clubs are open till 4/5am!
Most pubs these days don't close at 11 pm , they will often stay open later if they have the clientele
If your up Chester way when your here. I'll take you drinking with my canadian friend. For perspective, it's 30 mins south of Liverpool.
Hi Joel come on over I can take you to some great pubs . If you go on a drinking session to a lot of pubs it's called a Pub crawl for obvious reasons lol. come over I will show you around. 👍
I'll take ye out in Belfast. Our pubs shut at 130am generally lol. Usually ppl have a "carry out" (get drunk at home) first then go to pub the after that go dancing. At least in normal times
I was in a bar with a Welsh theme in San Francisco and won a pint of bitter for being able to pronounce and translate Lanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerych wyrndrobwch Llandysiliogogogoch. Mind you US pints are smaller than UK pints. And the name is a Welsh joke on our place names. Fosters is lager I believe. I prefer real beer myself.
i had my own glass behind the bar in my local when i was 16
Come to Ireland! Late night bars stay open til about 3am. Then of course there's the infamous "lock ins" where when the pub officially closes its doors it'll still serve drink til the wee hours of the morning. Only some pubs tho not all
Yes, the age for buying a drink in a British pub is 18, but at 16 one may go into a pub and be bought a beer or some wine by someone 18 or over. Anyone, of any age, can go into a pub with and adult, say to have lunch, but may only drink non-alcoholic beverages.
Correct answer!!
Weatherspoons has table service through the app 🥰 so good to walk into a pub and order shots etc and not have to get up
Not one pub in my town shut at 11. My local shuts at 2am.
Pubs (or Public Houses) are noted for serving beer from giant barrels, often housed underground and pumped by hand pump at the bar.
Tins of beer are relatively new. (Depending on what one might consider new).
Nowadays it normal for actual food to be served, not just crisps and pork scratchings. Even tea and coffee!!!
It’s a very different world.