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Beer engine handles on a bar. A beer engine is a device for pumping beer from a cask, usually located in a pub's cellar.. The beer engine was invented by John Lofting, a Dutch inventor, merchant and manufacturer who moved from Amsterdam to London in about 1688 and patented a number of inventions including a fire hose and engine for extinguishing fires and a thimble knurling machine.
A beer tower (also known as a portable beer tap, a tabletop beer dispenser, a triton dispenser or a beer giraffe) is a beer dispensing device, sometimes found in bars, pubs and restaurants. The idea behind beer towers is that several patrons in a group can serve themselves the amount of beer they want without having to order individually.
A ban was approved on 1 July 2010, following an amendment to the existing tobacco advertising law. A full ban never took effect, but a 2013 law prohibits vending machines for sale of tobacco products in public areas. [3] Hungary: Banned Iceland: Banned Ireland: Sales prohibited under 18. Restricted to licensed premises only since 1 July 2009.
A brewpub is a pub or restaurant that brews beer on the premises. A beer hall (German: Bierpalast, Bierstube) is a large pub that specializes in beer. An Izakaya is a type of Japanese drinking establishment which also serves food to accompany the drinks. A speakeasy is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages.
Licensing notice displayed above the entrance of a pub (no longer required since November 2005) The alcohol licensing laws of the United Kingdom regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol, with separate legislation for England and Wales, [a] Northern Ireland and Scotland being passed, as necessary, by the UK Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the Scottish Parliament respectively.
The British Beer and Pub Association is the drinks and hospitality industry's largest and most influential trade association [according to whom?] representing some 90% of UK brewing (by volume) and the ownership of around 20,000 of the nation's pubs.
All other drinks are not spirits (for the purposes of the act) and could be free poured. Today, these other drinks may not be free poured, but must be measured, though the bar is free to choose the size of the measure (which must be advertised). In practice, most bars will use the same size measure as for the four spirits. [5]
The brewery supplies its own estate of just over 300 public houses, mostly in North West England, but including more than 30 in North Wales. [3] It also sells to the free trade.