Brothers Bottles...............

[Laura_Babs]

Tell you something... it made the Eurovision a million times funnier...

[Funkfarley]

Oh you were on it too? I totally agree with that. Need to go buy some more tomorrow. Although the Glastonbury cider doesn't go too well with the Glastonbury diet!!!

[DeanoL]

Have to say, the reasons given about underage drinking are a joke. The mess issue I can understand (and it's not like there were empty bins to put the bottles in) but the underage thing is crazy on so many levels:

First:

1) How many of these drinkers, upon not being able to get cider said "Sod it, lets go to bed instead then" rather than "Okay I'll have something else".

2) If Brothers weren't IDing people, that's one thing. But as has been said, young looking people will get ID'd every time they go up to the bar as they'll get served by different people. If you sell in large bottles the benefits are two-fold: first you serve faster, clearing the queue quicker and hence allowing more time to ID borderline cases without risking the crowd at the bar getting large enough to be unsafe. Secondly, once you ID that person and serve them a bottle, it'll be four times as long until they come back and have to be ID'd again.

Surely selling in larger quantities eases the problem.

3) Why can't we just buy bottles if we present ID? Compulsory for all ages. It'll take 5 seconds extra for someone to check the ID, granted. But that's off-set against the time spent serving the same person up to four separate times, with a separate transaction each time.

[glasto-worker]

Have to say, the reasons given about underage drinking are a joke. The mess issue I can understand (and it's not like there were empty bins to put the bottles in) but the underage thing is crazy on so many levels:

First:

1) How many of these drinkers, upon not being able to get cider said "Sod it, lets go to bed instead then" rather than "Okay I'll have something else".

2) If Brothers weren't IDing people, that's one thing. But as has been said, young looking people will get ID'd every time they go up to the bar as they'll get served by different people. If you sell in large bottles the benefits are two-fold: first you serve faster, clearing the queue quicker and hence allowing more time to ID borderline cases without risking the crowd at the bar getting large enough to be unsafe. Secondly, once you ID that person and serve them a bottle, it'll be four times as long until they come back and have to be ID'd again.

Surely selling in larger quantities eases the problem.

3) Why can't we just buy bottles if we present ID? Compulsory for all ages. It'll take 5 seconds extra for someone to check the ID, granted. But that's off-set against the time spent serving the same person up to four separate times, with a separate transaction each time.

[redmad1971]

Everybody knows that K is the best cider around. Brothers is pisswater by comparison.