Rather than 100 bottles of beer on the wall, you get 100 beer mats, featuring such ales as Guinness, Fuller's London Pride, Carlsberg and others from around the world. Mats like this can be found in pubs all over Britain; they will add the perfect pub feel to your home - while protecting any surface from spills and water damage. Made from wood pulp.
Go pub-hopping in Berlin and visit some of its famous cocktail lounges and authentic taverns. Soak up the atmosphere of bohemian lounges and chic new cocktail haunts in the former communist east. Discover rustic pubs, sit back and look out over the city from open-air beer gardens in the bombed out ruins of Berlin's downtown.Enjoy first class treatment, groove to the music of some of the world's best DJs and enjoy a variety of live acts at Berlin's hottest bars and clubs. This tour is a great chance to sample a variety of beer, feel the pulse of Berlins nightlife and make new friends!
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Why Are Pubs… Called "pubs"
Believe it or not, pub is in fact short for "Public House." So yes, we've managed to answer the question posed in the title of this article; however the question now is why on earth it was ever called a "Public House?" Interested to find out more, we've decided to delve deeper into the history of the pub.
Back at the start of the 20th century, there were 2 types of places you could go drinking at subject to your class. Both these venue types tended to be co-located, separated by a wall or some sort of partition. The first option, if you were lucky enough to be part of the middle class was the saloon or lounge bar. This had carpets, cushioned seats and was all-round classy by the standards of the time, and in that spirit, not all persons were deemed fit to knock back a few in such a refined establishment.
So if you were of the working class, you had no choice to head to a venue that had no restrictions whatsoever… a venue that was open to the public and as such attended the "public bar," with bare boards, and if you were lucky, sawdust to absorb the spitting and spillages. Although these venues didn't exactly embrace the principles of feng-shui, the beer was cheap and if you were poor… it was better than nothing. By and far, public houses were more popular than the alternative, simply because most people were poor.
Later, the public bars started getting less shit, until sometimes almost the only difference was in the prices. This gave pub enthusiasts the choice until during the blurring of the class divisions in the 1960s and 1970s; the distinction between the saloon and the public bar was often seen as stupid. As a result, many owners removed the dividing wall or partition separating the two venue types. (Which explains some of the curious pub floor plans you see in many modern day pubs?)
So armed with the knowledge you now have about the origin of the "The Pub," feel free to impress your mates after a few beers at your favourite watering hole with a little bit of knowledge about pubs.
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