whufc wrote:Wedgie wrote:West End is easily still the best seller at our pub and other pubs I've drank at.
Other beers only give it a run for money if they're on special. Its usually only the occasional visitor that isn't a regular that will have a beer like a Corona, Peroni, etc.
Great Northern, Superdry, Pale Ale and Calrton are the only other beers we haven't swapped around due to poor sales. XXXX almost held a spot.
Ciders are on a real downhill slide atm too, that started late last year.
West End themselves have said sales are at a record low so you must have just struck gold with the pubs you have been at or they have the worst business model on the planet.
West End also say themselves that West End beer is the most popular in the state with 1 in 5 beers sold being a West End.
If you actualy read my posts you would see I didn't disagree that sales were at a record low atm.
Was just giving an insight into the popularity of WED compared to other beers in certain demographics in that post.
Maybe have a read of this too:
Wedgie wrote:Don't think it's so much that (even though they're your old fashion front bars more than artsy crappy wankerfest) , it's just pubs like that are getting so many less people in these days. Because of Covid we had to get rid of happy hours, raffles, the pool table, etc resulting in a big downturn.
Last time West End was sold at Adelaide Oval it was easily the best seller at the bar I worked at despite being only in cans and not on tap. Got heaps of complaints at the cricket after we stopped selling it.
Marketing might have something to do with it too as 3 places I worked never even had it.
Like decent cider, Carlton Draught is getting rarer and rarer too, I'm always looking out for it as my mate drinks it.
I've even read that earlier this year was the worst month for all alcohol sales and I know mainstream beer is getting a shrinking slice of the market.
If you went to pubs in the 80s the only two beers on tap were WED and West End Light, of course their sales were gping to drop going from almosy having a monopoly on a huge slice of the market to not even being sold at a lot of places, throw in the impact of Covid then of course big overseas companies are going to look at streamlining their businesses.
The fact they're still going to make and sell WED says a bit too. If sales were so bad compared to other beers why would they continue to produce it?
The beer's obviously still of value where the brewery isn't.
