The marketing team looked at that, OK’d it and had the posters made?
Not exactly helping get rid of the horrible stereotype of brits around the world as drunken louts… Christ.
It’s definately giving Embassy Focus Points a run for their money!
I definitely want to join.
There’s regulars at my local who could get the 100 prize in a week.
There’s codes of conduct for marketing alcohol and this breaches that. There’s no Drink awareness sign posting, it encourages excessive drinking as there’s no ending date or limitations. It also breaches marketing rules as doesn’t even have basic terms and conditions (no Dave behind the counter isn’t adequate). Also there would be issue with calling it a ‘club’. It’s also something that has to be consumed at the time, I marketed bottles of wine and jumped through hoops and that can be put aside and drank in a paced manner.
If they limited it to 10 units a week (or under the recommended max) and said this promo last 3 years and it was achievable to a normal drinker to get to 500 and you can take the pints away….maybe get away with it.
It’s been about 8 years since I marketed alcohol but this would not be allowed in Scotland which has tighter rules and regulations and I doubt they’ve eased in rest of country since then.
Except Moe Szyslak’s customers, I don’t know anyone that goes to the same bar that many times
Reminds me of the coupons in my mum B&Hs when I was a kid.
I don’t think they have Andre The Giant’s size.
So these are just day passes then?
Where about is this in the black country? Asking for a friend
My local did a monthly card for Badger about 20 years ago, 12 pints free polo shirt. Went in on Friday 1st, woke up in it on the 2nd.
Several regrets
This is a regular talking point in my drinking group – and several of them consider themselves borderline alcoholics…
The funniest thing I think I’ve seen on the ones in my local is that they have the ‘drink-aware’ website details on the bottom of the poster. That legit scares me and makes me laugh like a drain every time I see it.
“Yeah, drink two pints a day for a good chunk of the year – but do it in moderation guys…”
You used to get free t shirts after about 10 pints in the noughties, this 100+ is crazy
Reminds me of my teenage drinking days with a 3 litre bottle of Frosty Jack’s every night, they ran a promotion once where you could send in vouchers from the bottle’s label and claim a skip cap, a fleece jacket, an umbrella and various other stuff for increasing amounts of vouchers, all brandishing the Frosty Jack’s logo. I had enough vouchers to claim EVERYTHING. Never did because I didn’t want to show off how just much I drank. Or *what* I drank. It wasn’t nick-named “Frosty Jake’s” without reason.
£2500 on pints and you walk away with a fleece. Great incentive!
Yeah but it’s ale, I’d rather drink piss mixed with vodka
In the early 90s, I earned my Holstien Wicked T-shirt by drinking four pints while scaffolding the actual pub.
So you need to spend about a grand on beer for a polo?
I’ve tried 94 different beers since last December. It’s not difficult at all.
Couldn’t they have made the 500 a gold jacket. So everyone in the pub would know. Like “hey here comes big Dave, Mr 500!”
OP – is that the Black Country Arms in Walsall by any chance?
I lived in Walsall for a bit and I was about 60 odd into the hundred club before I moved – sad times, I would have been buzzing for that t-shirt!
For anyone reading this – they have about 14-16 guest ales on and they change all the time – the spirit of it is to try 100 different beers over the period – not smash 500 pints of Carling for a polo shirt.
It’s a great real ale pub – well worth a visit if that’s your sort of thing.
I used to drink around 5 a day 6 days a week with more on weekends (weekends meaning Thurs-Sat)
I could have had all three within four months.
Now it would take me about four years.
I killed myself and all I got was this lousy T-shirt 🙄😆
My daughter’s dance class is round the corner from one of theses pubs. Should be done with that fleece in a month or so.
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They only do that 500 pint shirt in XXXL
Not for a fecking polo shirt. I might do it for a free pint.
100 shouldn’t be too difficult. That’s only 2 pints a week.
One thing I absolutely don’t want to have a record of is how many drinks I’ve had at the same pub.
2 pints every week day after work, for a year.
I’d probably just buy a polo shirt myself.
Unless rounds count… Hmmm
Cut a dashing figure at your local riot in one of these
I’m after the jumper.
“So do I need to just buy 500 pints in one go to get the deal?”
10 pints every Friday night for a year and that polo is yours for next summer mate.
Get stuck in.
Seething if you get to 499 pints and that log book behind the bar goes walkies
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[Purchase a £30 fleece.](https://shopblackcountryales.com/collections/merchandise/products/black-country-ales-navy-fleece)
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[Buying 500 pints at £2.80/£3.00.](https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/The+Vine+Inn/@52.6020382,-2.080267,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipPJk0jcMk2DZ7PCOdYWUqg6gxzcwK-AcSXIBJYF!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPJk0jcMk2DZ7PCOdYWUqg6gxzcwK-AcSXIBJYF%3Dw203-h114-k-no!7i5312!8i2988!4m18!1m8!3m7!1s0x48709ead9ed73343:0x7864d225f3b10ef9!2s35+Lichfield+Rd,+Wolverhampton+WV11+1TN!3b1!8m2!3d52.6020355!4d-2.0804194!16s%2Fg%2F11bw3hx88g!3m8!1s0x48709eb20edf9f07:0x91dcde3ed3181c9f!8m2!3d52.6020382!4d-2.080267!10e5!14m1!1BCgIYIQ!16s%2Fg%2F1hc4r7vdq?hl=en&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDgyMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)
£2.80 x 500 = £1,400.
£3.00 x 500 = £1,500.
The marketing team looked at that, OK’d it and had the posters made?
Not exactly helping get rid of the horrible stereotype of brits around the world as drunken louts… Christ.
It’s definately giving Embassy Focus Points a run for their money!
I definitely want to join.
There’s regulars at my local who could get the 100 prize in a week.
There’s codes of conduct for marketing alcohol and this breaches that. There’s no Drink awareness sign posting, it encourages excessive drinking as there’s no ending date or limitations. It also breaches marketing rules as doesn’t even have basic terms and conditions (no Dave behind the counter isn’t adequate). Also there would be issue with calling it a ‘club’. It’s also something that has to be consumed at the time, I marketed bottles of wine and jumped through hoops and that can be put aside and drank in a paced manner.
If they limited it to 10 units a week (or under the recommended max) and said this promo last 3 years and it was achievable to a normal drinker to get to 500 and you can take the pints away….maybe get away with it.
It’s been about 8 years since I marketed alcohol but this would not be allowed in Scotland which has tighter rules and regulations and I doubt they’ve eased in rest of country since then.
Except Moe Szyslak’s customers, I don’t know anyone that goes to the same bar that many times
Reminds me of the coupons in my mum B&Hs when I was a kid.
I don’t think they have Andre The Giant’s size.
So these are just day passes then?
Where about is this in the black country? Asking for a friend
My local did a monthly card for Badger about 20 years ago, 12 pints free polo shirt. Went in on Friday 1st, woke up in it on the 2nd.
Several regrets
This is a regular talking point in my drinking group – and several of them consider themselves borderline alcoholics…
The funniest thing I think I’ve seen on the ones in my local is that they have the ‘drink-aware’ website details on the bottom of the poster. That legit scares me and makes me laugh like a drain every time I see it.
“Yeah, drink two pints a day for a good chunk of the year – but do it in moderation guys…”
You used to get free t shirts after about 10 pints in the noughties, this 100+ is crazy
Reminds me of my teenage drinking days with a 3 litre bottle of Frosty Jack’s every night, they ran a promotion once where you could send in vouchers from the bottle’s label and claim a skip cap, a fleece jacket, an umbrella and various other stuff for increasing amounts of vouchers, all brandishing the Frosty Jack’s logo. I had enough vouchers to claim EVERYTHING. Never did because I didn’t want to show off how just much I drank. Or *what* I drank. It wasn’t nick-named “Frosty Jake’s” without reason.
£2500 on pints and you walk away with a fleece. Great incentive!
Yeah but it’s ale, I’d rather drink piss mixed with vodka
In the early 90s, I earned my Holstien Wicked T-shirt by drinking four pints while scaffolding the actual pub.
So you need to spend about a grand on beer for a polo?
I’ve tried 94 different beers since last December. It’s not difficult at all.
Couldn’t they have made the 500 a gold jacket. So everyone in the pub would know. Like “hey here comes big Dave, Mr 500!”
OP – is that the Black Country Arms in Walsall by any chance?
I lived in Walsall for a bit and I was about 60 odd into the hundred club before I moved – sad times, I would have been buzzing for that t-shirt!
For anyone reading this – they have about 14-16 guest ales on and they change all the time – the spirit of it is to try 100 different beers over the period – not smash 500 pints of Carling for a polo shirt.
It’s a great real ale pub – well worth a visit if that’s your sort of thing.
I used to drink around 5 a day 6 days a week with more on weekends (weekends meaning Thurs-Sat)
I could have had all three within four months.
Now it would take me about four years.
I killed myself and all I got was this lousy T-shirt 🙄😆
My daughter’s dance class is round the corner from one of theses pubs.
Should be done with that fleece in a month or so.
100 DIFFERENT pints would be good