I Can Pour My Own Beer Thank You.

[GuestHouse]

Its a minor grate but when I go for a beer I like to relax and take my time drinking it. I tell the server I'll pour my own beer thank you, but unless I'm watching my glass like a hawk, one of the other staff will invariable sneak up on me and top my glass up.

As I said, a minor annoyance when I'm drinking alone or with a small group, but it gets dangerous at large gatherings where its impossible to keep an eye/count of the bottles stacking up at the end of table.

Edited April 19, 2013 by GuestHouse

[FunFon]

They are trained and required to do this by management, and consider it good service.

If you are gracious you will let it be as it is, and control your rate of drinking as you see fit by how often you choose to raise your glass to your lips rather than by the level of the liquid in your glass.

Or simply hold the bottle in your hand?

Or have a quiet word give the server a little tip asking them to please not pour your drink for your? Of course in most places this will simply lead to panic and confusion but give it a go. . .

[cooked]

Try to teach a Thai how to pour a Guinness. Come to that very few people know how to pour a beer these days, sigh. I have been known to go behind the bar and show them, they don't want to know, I think some would shake a bottle of Champagne before opening if you didn't stand pn their foot beforehand.

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[FunFon]

Doesn't really matter since they're pouring it over ice anyway. . .

[saakura]

Absolutely. I too like to pour my own beer at leisure and find it highly irritating when they keep topping it up after every few sips. I try to keep the glass on the far end of the table but they sneak in from the back. And if there is a bucket of ice for a companion drinking water or coke, they will put it into your cold beer too.

[meom]

I prefer some foam on top but a lot of staff seem to pour without foam.

[muythai2013]

i bet they do it so they get a tip each time.

[cooked]

...and plonking ice into my beer without asking. Scoundrels...

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[GuestHouse]

.

Or have a quiet word give the server a little tip asking them to please not pour your drink for your?

Did you actually bother reading my post? Doh!

[rgs2001uk]

Stop drinking in clip joints, problem solved.

[StreetCowboy]

Stop drinking in clip joints, problem solved.

I find Thai places the worst for this. Perhaps because in Western bars I drink pints, and in gogo bars I drink out of the bottle...

I quite enjoy pouring my own beer; I find it soothing. I also prefer to put in exactly as much ice as I wish, so unless the barstaff are confirmed telepaths, I'd rather do it myself.

I suppose it's a bit like wanking; I can do it for myself perfectly adequately, and while It might be nice to have someone else do it for you, surely there's better things that they could be doing...

SC

EDIT: And while we're having an ill-natured grizzle about barstaff, I get frustrated when they are so focussed on their job that they forget to take any notice of their customers... and wheeching away your glass when there's still a mouthful of warm beer in the bottom of it.

Edited April 19, 2013 by StreetCowboy

[smokie36]

I like when they forget to add to my bill.

[rgs2001uk]

Stop drinking in clip joints, problem solved.

I find Thai places the worst for this. Perhaps because in Western bars I drink pints, and in gogo bars I drink out of the bottle...

I quite enjoy pouring my own beer; I find it soothing. I also prefer to put in exactly as much ice as I wish, so unless the barstaff are confirmed telepaths, I'd rather do it myself.

I suppose it's a bit like wanking; I can do it for myself perfectly adequately, and while It might be nice to have someone else do it for you, surely there's better things that they could be doing...

SC

EDIT: And while we're having an ill-natured grizzle about barstaff, I get frustrated when they are so focussed on their job that they forget to take any notice of their customers... and wheeching away your glass when there's still a mouthful of warm beer in the bottom of it.

and wheeching away your glass when there's still a mouthful of warm beer in the bottom of it.

If you frequented the clip joints the OP uses you wouldnt have that problem, the glass would have been refilled with ice, without so much as a bye your leave.

[StreetCowboy]

Stop drinking in clip joints, problem solved.

I find Thai places the worst for this. Perhaps because in Western bars I drink pints, and in gogo bars I drink out of the bottle...

I quite enjoy pouring my own beer; I find it soothing. I also prefer to put in exactly as much ice as I wish, so unless the barstaff are confirmed telepaths, I'd rather do it myself.

I suppose it's a bit like wanking; I can do it for myself perfectly adequately, and while It might be nice to have someone else do it for you, surely there's better things that they could be doing...

SC

EDIT: And while we're having an ill-natured grizzle about barstaff, I get frustrated when they are so focussed on their job that they forget to take any notice of their customers... and wheeching away your glass when there's still a mouthful of warm beer in the bottom of it.

and wheeching away your glass when there's still a mouthful of warm beer in the bottom of it.

If you frequented the clip joints the OP uses you wouldnt have that problem, the glass would have been refilled with ice, without so much as a bye your leave.

Sure, but they'd replace the bottle when they'd not squeezed the last of the fumes out of it; without allowing it to stand for a few minutes inverted in the glass for a few minutes to properly drain.

I should post that in the "frugal living" thread, so I should.

SC

[GuestHouse]

If you frequented the clip joints the OP uses you wouldnt have that problem,

rgs has no idea where I drink the above statement is based upon his own baseless assumptions.... Doh!

[rgs2001uk]

If you frequented the clip joints the OP uses you wouldnt have that problem,

rgs has no idea where I drink the above statement is based upon his own baseless assumptions.... Doh!

Ok please put us out of our misery, where did this take place?

So what 6 people go to a bar, 36 bottles are consumed, each person pays for 6 bottles, whats the problem.

Where in farangland can I get a personal servant to add ice and beer?

Usually where I drink its based on eye movement, never mind yet another thinly veiled anti Thai rant, good old GH so predicatable.

[Banzai99]

Drink straight from the Bottle, use the ice bucket as a cooler.

[Digitalbanana]

Just use a condom!

[chickenslegs]

Even worse than topping up too frequently is when they park your beer on a trolley out of reach, pour the first glass, then forget about you.

And, if you get up and bring the bottle back to your table the waitress looks at you as if you're stealing it.

[Rob8891]

Just use a condom!

That would have proven the solution to (or prevention of) so many of these types of ranting thread on TV.

[kevvy]

Absolutely. I too like to pour my own beer at leisure and find it highly irritating when they keep topping it up after every few sips. I try to keep the glass on the far end of the table but they sneak in from the back. And if there is a bucket of ice for a companion drinking water or coke, they will put it into your cold beer too.

i like ice in my beer. I know, it is a sacrilege to do this as i am a aussie, but I really like it now .

[eeeya]

Even worse than topping up too frequently is when they park your beer on a trolley out of reach, pour the first glass, then forget about you.

And, if you get up and bring the bottle back to your table the waitress looks at you as if you're stealing it.

god that sh!ts me..

[Barry Griffin]

Can someone please tell me how a pretty young Thai girl pouring your beer into your glass for you is a negative?

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Edited April 19, 2013 by Barry Griffin

[Khun Watchaporn]

East is East and West is West....

Just let them serve you, surely being served and waited on isn't that difficult to accept.

[Payboy]

Can someone please tell me how a pretty young Thai girl pouring your beer into your glass for you is a negative?

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Sometimes they don't become pretty until they've poured at least a dozen.

[pattayadingo]

It was never a problem for me. And it is what they are paid to do.

On the odd occasion I did not want them to pour a beer, i used to put my hand over my glass and they got the message.

Surely it is not too hard to see the waitress coming at your glass with bottle in hand and stop her pouring the beer?

[smokie36]

Just use a condom!

That would have proven the solution to (or prevention of) so many of these types of ranting thread on TV.

How dare you deny me my right to rant.

Back of the class for you laddie!

[yourauntbob]

Sorry, i cant empathize, i kind of like the fact they pour my beer for me. I wouldnt hate them if they didnt but dont mind that they do.

[sunny and hot]

I agree 100%, it is also of putting that they stare at you and wait for you to nearly finish. I nearly told one bar man to stop the other day. From a business point of view it makes sense- perhaps you will keep drinking and buy more!

[Donnie Brasco]

Jamming beer and rushing customers to drink it is just a bush league clip-joint tactic.

It's not service and they know it.

If a hostess starts jamming my glass, I just smile and tell her that I don't want it to get warm, or to have too much ice melting in it or some such excuse. If they continue, then it's "I don't want to be drunk when I leave here."

I smile and joke when I say this.

I ask 'em not to touch my beer and if they put it on the trolley I request that it be put back on my table.

This especially goes for whiskey and soda memberships in the large Thai Coyotee joints.

Smile and say that you like to drink slowly and pour it yourself.

It's easy.

Just watch them when you're totaling your bill. (That they don't swoop in and dump half glass on whiskey into everyone's glass five minutes before you're ready to leave.

Stop them.

Pushy service ruins a good time.

Put an end to it.

Just smile when you do it.