Originally Posted by
Cloudane
Speaking of loud music and quiet pubs, sadly our local has gone loud now.
Used to be great until a couple of months ago, constantly winning the local CAMRA pub of the year award year after year. Then a young loud partygoer type took over as manager.
In went a TV for sport
In went a jukebox
Jukebox is now quite consistently on MAXIMUM VOLUME playing absolute garbage so you can't hear yourself think let alone hold a conversation :(
Kind of run out of nice quiet venues for proper beer now in our town. There are basically 3 that have plenty of well-kept guest ales:
One is a foody pub with every table being a food table, so it's always packed to the rafters with people eating and nowhere to sit if you just want a drink (nowhere to stand either really, unless you want to be diving out of the way of hurried waitresses all the time)
The second one got turned into a sports bar (stereotypical nerd here, I hate sport) and the TV is always on and always blaring football or rugby of some sort
That left this one, which is now a party pub.
Gah.