Our Private Club

Used to be, in the grand old days, that the gentleman's private club was never of specific interest to most women.

And that was because the food and the service within, you see, was not the kind favored by ladies at all, nor the service of the particularly genteel type - ex-Sar' Majors moving around the place giving orders to staff and inquiring as to the standard of the curry puffs or club sandwiches and ensuring that the beer was genuinely cold.

Club curry puffs

In the old day ladies tended to prefer champagne - which is generally not the beverage of choice for mornings unless one is in the enclosure at the races...

Yes, old club-men can manage the mornings with beer, and even breakfast in Asia and/or the Tropics generally does consist of something, ...and beer.

The real private club does mornings, and then moves on from there to the rest of the day, and on to the evenings, and the late nights.

When we take our decent newspapers in the morning - not that there are any anymore these days - we can absorb authentic statistics and balance our conclusions as a result: you know, read things such as the Stockholm Center's claim that there are 245 journalists currently being detained by the government of Turkey...

Or important historical facts, like the fact that the Danish brewer Carlsberg identified the first totally pure yeast for beer back in 1883 (Dr Emil Christian Hansen at the Carlsberg laboratories first isolated and identified the strand), which allowed for the modern industry to produce an assured quality of brewed beer because the brews were no long adulterated by substances that regularly spoiled the process - and that Carlsberg gave their pure yeast to the rest of the brewing industry and to the world freely because they believed in helping all brewers of beer and the world of beer drinking at large.

See...? That will give you a certain elevated sense of appreciation when you down that first beer of the day at your club.