Hooray for beer!
Local brewery wins a bunch of international awards. Not my favorite, but Harvey’s is a very good beer and the oldest family-owned business in Sussex – operating since 1790 and there are people of the seventh and eighth generation working there now.
If you read the article, it says the family still has several “tide pubs” – you’d be forgiven for thinking these are pubs that only operate for a few hours a day at low tide. But no, that’s a sign of someone dictating the article, or maybe AI.
What they meant is a “tied house” – a pub that is obliged to buy a certain percentage of their beer and other goods from a specific company. The company owns the pub itself, so it is a cheaper way to become a pub landlord.
The opposite is a Free House, which I suspect most of them are now, since FREE HOUSE is emblazoned on most pub signs. One of the many things I had to have explained to me.
August 22, 2024 — 7:24 pm
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