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The Spit and Sawdust has a page on Facebook stating they are giving there Beers away..Thursday 16th. They have worked so hard and obviously can't serve any customers. I don't know how they are doing it but they don'twant the delicious ales to wasre. You can make a donation.

The Spit and Sawdust is in Bartholomew Street, SE1 4aj...

Jan the old one wrote:

The Spit and Sawdust has a page on Facebook stating they are giving there Beers away..Thursday 16th. They have worked so hard and obviously can't serve any customers. I don't know how they are doing it but they don'twant the delicious ales to wasre. You can make a donation.
The Spit and Sawdust is in Bartholomew Street, SE1 4aj...

The beer contained in kegs held in pub cellars will soon go off, meaning it will have to be disposed of.

It is estimated that 50M pints languish in pub cellars.

This disposal will not be carried out for free; the pubs will not be allowed to pour it down the drains: they will have to rely on a commercial service and it won't be cheap.

So handing it out sounds like a nice gesture benefiting both drinkers as well as publicans, given that it is already a total loss for the pubs and breweries.

What remains to be ascertained, though, is whether leaving one's home to pick up some free beer is compliant to the social distancing rules currently in effect: perhaps we will see an orderly queue of people outside the pub, with each person maintaining a 2mt distance from those in front and behind them, while carrying a container to fill with the beer.

Please note that the beer is not quite free, but is 'Pay What You Want'.

It will a return to the Jug Bar of the forties! Going in and getting your jug filled up...shame the old beer could not be used as fertiliser in gardens, if I still lived at number 11 I'd be their with my barrel....well the gardens were large!

The Gladstone is now also doing this, each weekend.

Both times I've been to Spit & Sawdust to help clear their beer, everyone has queued outside keeping a good distance. One person or couple was allowed just inside the door at a time.

The Rose on Weston St is doing a roaring trade of takeaway pints