samuel smiths

salford5 · Post by **salford5** » Wed May 27, 2009 11:36 pm

any one heard any stories about the nutter who owns the 605 pubs ? worth 3 billion i heard hes called humprey smith ....abbey leisure all there machines are on hes a complete nutter none of there pubs have music or tvs hes barred them he goes round checking on all hes pubs making sure everthing is in tac ..... he drives a shitty old honda civic that he sleeps in hes head as gone .... anyone heard out on this guy ...

aaamusements.co.uk · Post by **aaamusements.co.uk** » Thu May 28, 2009 1:35 am

They do a nice pint of ale.

salford5 · Post by **salford5** » Thu May 28, 2009 2:13 am

the guys a complete nutter drives around in his car all day old honda civiv worth about 500quid and worth sumert like 2-3 billion

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Thu May 28, 2009 9:28 am

There's a fair few SS pubs in central London. Don't think he is worth a huge amount of money. Probably about £60 million according to Companies House.

INVINCIBLE · Post by **INVINCIBLE** » Thu May 28, 2009 9:47 am

did some building work years ago on the ss brewery in tadcaster, we could not use power tools all the work had to be done by hand/hand tools
what a joker
btw the brewery is a shit hole

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Thu May 28, 2009 10:59 am

Aye plenty of sam smiths in central london (off top of head the Lyceum, Ye Old Cheshire Cheese' the Chandos,The Citie of York). Pint of bitter was always ridiculously cheap but filthy to boot. They only serve own brand spirits and they don't do a weak lager the only choice being Ayingerbrau (sp?) Or Alpine.

Shitholes really which is a shame as quite like their bottled range- old brewary pale ale, nut brown ale etc

aaamusements.co.uk · Post by **aaamusements.co.uk** » Thu May 28, 2009 12:17 pm

Couple of lovely places in Stamford.
Can't fault the beer either, always been perfect.

But yes, I have heard of Mr Smith and his eccentricities.
I wish I could afford to be eccentric.

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Thu May 28, 2009 3:46 pm

Ayingerbrau is lethal, especially the strong version! Sam Smiths are shit, no branded stuff anywhere, and the stuff you get instead is generally foul.

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Thu May 28, 2009 4:14 pm

Ayingerbrau and Alpine are the same thing. Company policy. Only own brand spirits, own ales, no music, no TV. No enjoying yourself probably.

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Thu May 28, 2009 5:59 pm

There were a couple on York....Hansom Cab & Kings Arms i think. Got spannered on a sunny summers day by the river in the kings once....never did again! The hangover was horrendous! :x

HornyNick · Post by **HornyNick** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:54 pm

Love Ayinger/Alpine but its just a shame the the only SS pub in Hudds is run by wankers who dont have the bottle to bar the gangster wannabe scum who have overrun the place.
The pub itself is quite nice.

jeffvickers · Post by **jeffvickers** » Fri May 29, 2009 12:09 am

harry2 wrote:Company policy. Only own brand spirits, own ales, no music, no TV. No enjoying yourself probably.

Thats what some folk enjoy, it gives people a choice.

salford5 · Post by **salford5** » Fri May 29, 2009 1:38 am

harry2 wrote:Ayingerbrau and Alpine are the same thing. Company policy. Only own brand spirits, own ales, no music, no TV. No enjoying yourself probably.

company policy thats funny he came in my local last night humphrey his self and all he went on about his company policy the only branded product they have is mccoys crisp suprised hes not got his own smiths crisps

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Fri May 29, 2009 8:58 am

Slightly related, but I bought a pint of Strongbow the other day that tasted like it was half cider and half pipe-cleaner. The twat behind the bar said 'Best pint of Strongbow you'll taste for miles, son' and WOULD NOT exchange it / give me a refund. Pillock. I walked out and stated that apparently, the customer is not always right. Things like that really wind me up.

HornyNick · Post by **HornyNick** » Fri May 29, 2009 9:26 am

If someone said something wasn't right, I would ALWAYS offer something else, unless they were a complete prick of course, but the thing is cider doesn't even need to be line-cleaned that often anyway. We only ever do ours every 4/5 weeks as opposed to every week with everything else.