Brulines and any other beer monitoring equipment under scrutiny Or is it the end of Brulines? Government to publish guidelines for trading standards on beer flow monitoring equipment At long last Beer Flow Monitoring equipment is set to come under renewed scrutiny as the Government publishes new guidelines for trading standards in mid-April. The controversial equipment, [...]
Chris Wright 11:11am Dec 19 If anyone on here is being fobbed off by the local Trading Standards in relation to Brulines trade use and getting no-where in getting your fines back, then email the TS response you have to contact the aide to the minister Mr Iain Mansfield (CCP) and tell him nothing is happening [...]
BISC: Brulines is covered by Weights and Measures Act Finally Common Sense has reached the surface in the Brulines farce, anyone with an iota of practical experience knows that a basic flow meter without some very technical additions is never going to differentiate between water, beer and air. We trust that the Pub Co’s enforcing these [...]
BRULINES BULLY BOY TACTICS Pot Boy North was visiting an old chum in Leeds last month and was supping his favourite Timmy Taylors in deference to that reet head banging stuff Jaipur IPA from Thornbridge, a glorious drop but at 5.9 ABV, hold them horses. Well anyroad, my chum and I were having a contemplative sup over [...]
BRULINES Pot Boy gets a never ending stream of emails from lessees that are sick and tired of the general bully boy tactics used by Brulines and the mob that either work for them or rely on their every word. This is a cautionary little tale of the nasty side that is both nobody’s [...]
BRULINES not a good day. Pot Boy South East was responding to an emergency call in Kent’s leafy suburbs a couple of weeks ago, to an alarming but all too common Brulines con trick. Yo thought I, can they still be pulling the same old down at heel chicanery, and to my regret the answer [...]
TRADING STANDARDS PROTOCOL SAYS BRULINES FIGURES USED TO FINE PUB TENANTS ARE “ESTIMATED”, EQUIPMENT CAN BE “CIRCUMVENTED” AND ADVISES TESTERS TO KEEP TENANTS IN THE DARK This trading standards protocol should be published in full by local trading standards officers investigating Brulines equipment in pubs says GMB The Trading Standards protocol for officers [...]
BRULINES CONFESSIONS. How often is it that Pot Boy hears of the “well I fessed up, ‘ad no choice, know wot I mean”. Usual con trick of so called irrefutable Brulines data as to buying out. Your lease, your livelihood, kids at school, your sanity all at risk through the accusation that you have been “robbing” [...]
BRULINES-FLOWMETER HOME TRUTHS Pot Boy has had a large number of e-mails asking what the very devil is a flow meter and how does it work, seeing as how so very much reliance is placed on the “spy in the cellar” by the Pubcos. Consulting my RAF engineering chum, ironically over a couple of pints [...]
BRULINES FINES Pot Boy must say from the start that he does not condone the breaking of a contract, in this case your Pubco lease. The Lease is legally binding as are its consequences. Having said all that, Pot Boy is as equally strong on condemning the Pubco BRM/BDM bully boy tactics wrapped up in the proven [...]