Man walks into a bar… on holiday – Gaming regulation

Read about the first trip to the men’s bar from December 2021.

A man on vacation steps into Eierschale with his companions. The group was on leg 4 of the European beer tour, but things weren’t going as planned.

Warsteiner didn’t look and taste the same.The man was expecting the usual white crown Shaum On his Stein, but the bubbles occupied two-thirds of the glass. He once enjoyed a unique mix of creamy cold hops and barley, a dry aftertaste, and even the white touch he got from the first bite. But on this trip, he had to whisk in one fell swoop before the liquid hit the taste buds.

“Ein Schnitt Bier is in Munich – aber zum doppelten Preis,” said the bartender with an awkward smile. Not knowing what that meant, the man began to leave the bar as a roughly translated voice behind him. It’s like half a glass, you know … we have to stay optimistic lately … I’m from East Berlin, you see! ”

The man felt he was messing around rather than having fun, so he put the glass back on the table. At least they seemed to apologize, but because the glass was close to € 15 and half air, they competed with street vendors at Checkpoint Charlie and smashed a can of air in Berlin.

Before the trip, he heard that Germany’s new alcohol regulations were big news. In fact, regulation is big news across Europe, which reminded him of those weird Covid years. Now looking down at his glass of bubbles, thinking about how the bubbles stick together and how much each is worth, he realizes that he is sympathetic to the bar staff. rice field.

Under the glass, he found a beer mat ad in four languages, probably paid by a new regulatory agency. All of these issue strict warnings about the dangers of unlicensed facilities. But this obviously didn’t stop some Speakeasy from appearing around the town. Ironically, what was called the Reinheitsgebot (after the Reinheitsgebot, which was abolished in 1516) was clearly the best place to go. We offer 200 types of beer. Schnitzel The price was nearly 50% cheaper than elsewhere, so it wasn’t hard to understand why.

Despite the horrifying tactics and the obvious risks to their own habits, it seemed strange that even bar staff recommended the location. The manager of Eierschale also couldn’t disagree.

“They serve beer in an old 1-liter Maß glass,” he said mercilessly. “My two-on-one Tuesday is banned and I can’t sponsor a local football team.” There were even rumors that the Oktoberfest was canceled and threatened to withdraw the brewery.

At the beginning of the tour in Greece, they had a hard time finding Speakeasy. The government’s new snitch line was rewarded for giving citizens information about unlicensed facilities. But if you have the will, there is a way. The 10-minute break between rounds that I realized the landlord was forcing meant that the will was very pleased. As a result, private parties, homebrewing and drinking clubs have flourished in the country.

They managed to crash with some kind of scribbled joke on the door. The maximum interval between drinking is 30 seconds. There are no entries over 99 years. It’s likely the host’s handiwork that opened the door dressed as Peppa Pig. She hasn’t seen anyone else in a flashy dress, so the guy never asks if this is a statement or a nod to her favorite show from her childhood. was. However, there is no muddy puddle in this heat.

In Norway, men and their peers were as dissatisfied with strict admission policies and seat-only drinking rules as they were when they went home.Just as they were trying to shorten that leg of the trip, someone recommended a famous person now Sentralpuben At the central station in Oslo, they had to spend the rest of their time.

Not being classified as a pub means Sentralpuben We were able to serve cheap beer and had an affordable check and a relaxed approach to ID. It seemed to be in conflict with a government-run organization, but the man wasn’t complaining. “I’m sure I won’t miss the beer glass I pushed into my jacket as a souvenir,” he thought.

Their time in Belgium started badly because somehow they couldn’t serve food and drink at the same venue. However, when I downloaded the “Just Say Where” app, things improved immediately.

The underground drinking app was the best-selling app store, which was about to expand across borders. Apple disputed the instructions to ban it, arguing that Android downloads would simply occupy the mantle.

Event organizers in the app often demanded prepayment, and several or more party attendees were fooled. However, the rating system was starting to work and real events were at the top of the list. Bitcoin on the door was a different trend, but frequent venue changes gave these parties cult status and were one step ahead of the law. The days of rave reviews for the man weren’t over yet!

Beertrip.com was also launched a few weeks ago, ranking beer, venues and countries by price, quality, accessibility and availability. Unfortunately, the man had already booked this trip, but next time he agreed to change his two legs on the tour. Sightseeing choices based on local drinking rules were now important-and those liquor cruises sounded fascinating.

Inevitably, much of their pub conversation focused on European regulations and beer prices, and there was a lot of enthusiastic debate. “Everyone is an expert these days, and there’s a lot of fake news,” he said. It wasn’t what the beer tour was intended for, but yet another echo of those weird Covid eras. A couple of his friends spent the entire trip complaining while others enjoyed the challenge of finding an illegal drinking fountain.

However, the other day, at a private party, two dirty and depressed people returned home, and they also saw some battles. Things can easily get out of hand because there are no bouncers around. One of his friends found it all very interesting and spewing dissident rhetoric on every occasion, but he wasn’t a man. With a family history of alcoholism, he knew that addiction was a case of different people and different strokes.

Upon returning home, he heard some amazing stats in the news about drinking issues. An industry spokesman made some legitimate objections to how the data was collected, but then he pitched his own number, which was inconsistent with the argument.

The days when Guinness was “good for you” and the Australians didn’t give XXXX are gone. He thought drinking wasn’t cool these days. He was even ahead of the so-called “prank director” of a brewery.

Men could not help feeling that many of these restrictions only exacerbated the problem when the goal was to reduce alcoholism. The story of the portable stomach pump at the party was a bit exaggerated, but the image of two coma in the corner wasn’t gone.

“Think of the people who drink the frozen kiosk at the Belarusian bus shelter,” his friend said. Not knowing if it was folklore, Google search confirmed some shocking alcohol mortality statistics, but the cause was not so clear.

“This is for us in the app:” Wobble, not exemption “, it’s called. Haha! The Jaeger bomb is only the strength of entry and export, “exclaimed his fellow anarchists. “Oh, but that’s only Bitcoin. OK, next …”

He bit his lips because another Jaeger Bomb’s idea turned his stomach – but you can’t say that on a beer tour.

Some rules seemed to make sense, such as refusing to serve drinks to people with disabilities, while others were counterproductive. Was the regulatory agency boring or did he meditate? Did they see their role as a constant production of new rules? Have they revoked any of the rules? Or will it lose you the strictest regulatory awards?

Everything was banned here, unless explicitly permitted, but the policy of the neighbor’s store back in Greece was a horrifying development. He sighed and stared at his bubbles again in response to the criticisms of his friends who echoed his own words, “everyone is an expert these days.” “Why can’t we play together like these bubbles?”

Kevindale Co-founder of Egaming monitor. He was previously the CEO of Gameaccount (now GAN plc) and the CMO of Eurobet, Sportingbet and Betfair.

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