A drink problem

Keg beer is usually well behaved, but recently we have had more than our fair share of delinquent kegs. The main problem at the moment is what's called "fobbing" which means that the beer is over-gassed and therefore instead of a nice pint of lager with a frothy head on top, you get a pint of froth with a small amount of lager at the bottom. Tennents has been the main culprit this week, but a Kronenbourg also gave trouble two weeks ago. As long as we haven't used too much the brewery will normally credit us the amount of the keg, but it's a nuisance.

Also a nuisance is the postmix machine which normally produces cold fizzy drinks on tap. Yesterday it was producing warm flat ones which weren't too popular with the discerning drinkers of Jedburgh. The Coca cola engineer arrived and announced that the refrigeration unit was knackered but he couldn't mend it because he wasn't a refrigeration engineer. So we have bottles of coke behind the bar this weekend and a much quieter laundry (the machine is in there and usually makes a terrible racket)

Joinery work had continued at a funereal pace. I have given up even trying to estimate when the work will be complete. I think the framing for the new wall is finished, but haven't included a photo today because, frankly it looks exactly the same as it did yesterday,

And it's dark up there and I can't be bothered to go up and take a picture. So there!

We're full tonight. 12 for breakfast. Better go and get ready.