As a Brit who has lived in Calfornia in the USA and now lives back in the UK with an American wife I can say that there is absolutely no way that a bar in the US is the same as any pub in the UK or even bears any resemblance. They may try and replicate a "pub" in the US, you may call it a pub, or whatever, but the fundamental difference is the culture and history. The British pub is a place where people socialise. It may be with your work colleagues before heading home from work or a place where you meet friends or just go for a chat with other "locals". "Locals" are your pub friends. It may be in the evening, particularly in village pubs, where you meet with friends and neighbours to gossip or read a book or have some food. They are not generally places where people go to get drunk, although there's no denying that this happens, particularly in city centres. In fact, it's actually illegal to be drunk in a pub. They are places where you can take the family. I wouldn't like to do that in an American bar and couldn't do it anyway because the children wouldn't be allowed in the door. The British pub has a completely different atmosphere to anything I ever experienced in the US. Pubs are places where you're not put under pressure to buy another drink. You don't have to drink alcoholic drinks. There are no "servers" wanting tips and being rude if you don't tip. It's not unusual for people to stand and chat, rather than sit down.

My village pub shows children's films during school holidays, have cricket and football teams, co-ordinates charity events (eg gathering food and clothes for Ukraine and homeless) and lots more. They are a social hub for the village and surrounding rural areas, just like the village hall and playing field

The ambiance in a UK pub is what makes it special & different from any other establishment.

On the day before Christmas Eve, I spent a few hours in a country pub with a few family members. It was warm and cosy with separate rooms based around the central bar. It dated back to the 15th century. The ceilings were low and beamed. There were two beautiful huge ingle-nook fireplaces with gently smouldering fires, beautifully decorated with fairy lights and other Christmassy stuff. You could choose to either eat or just have a few drinks in any of the spaces, which had cute little nooks with benches and cushions and old wooden chairs. Idyllic!! In addition, there were people of all ages there, from families with babies, toddlers and their family dog, to locals from the village who have lived in the area for decades. No blaring music, no TV showing sports, knowledgeable staff who advised us on the best local ales and ciders... There is a world of difference between a traditional British pub and an American bar.This guy really did not do justice to the traditional British pub.

Whenever I visit the UK or Australia, it's great to be able to enjoy a cosy pub evening with my kids and grandsons, a family grouping aged from nine to 73. There's a familial atmosphere, banter, decent food, security for the grandkids to wonder about in pairs, and drink isn't the sole or even chief focus of being there. How different to most US drinking establishments I've frequented. This video probably demonstrates how long it has been since the speaker spent significant time in a British pub. More and more, they are family venues. Btw, though one cannot buy a drink at a pub until 18, an accompanying adult may buy a glass of wine or a beer for kids of 16 or over.

Surprised he didn't mention a lock in, after 11 it was not uncommon for the pubs doors to close but keep serving till 6am

When I first started going to pubs in the UK ( 1970s) we didn't have any forms of I.D. It was up to the person serving to say whether you looked old enough or not. I would go to a pub that has just a roaring open fire, rather than loud music playing and TV screens. I like a village pub that has locals playing " pub games" such as darts, skittles (table and long alley), dominoes and crib. STELLA in the UK is known as " wife beater " !

When he says pubs close at 11:00pm, that's for the small village ones mainly. If you go into a city/town then all the bars/pubs will be open much later than that. There's also a very distinct closing routine in pubs: 10:50pm: The barman/maid will ring a bell and shout "LAST ORDERS PLEASE LADIES AND GENTLEMAN" and what this means is you have 10 minutes before they stop taking orders. 11:00pm: They'll then call "TIME AT THE BAR" which means they aren't taking any more orders and you can't buy anything else. This generally means drinks mind, most places will still sell you a packet of peanuts or something to take away if you ask nicely. After this, you then have about 20 minutes to "drink up" before they start asking you to leave. So it's actually more like about 11:20 - 11:30ish that they actually close the doors completely.

I have never heard the phrase carded. In England everyone says IDed

It's a little difficult to explain what a pub is. It's kinda like a social hub. You can go in casually but if you go in frequently enough you become a "local" (irrelevant to whether you live nearby). You can sit in the corner quietly and just read the paper but you become a "local" if you do it regularly and you'll just be politely left alone but accepted. Often in rural communities (like where I grew up) it's the focus of the community, in a way. It's a place to relax and informally share/debate news of the day and so forth. I guess the simplest difference and definition is is a bar is where you go for a drink, but a pub is where you go to hang out with your mates/neighbours/the community. I worked in a pub in the north and each Sunday at opening there would be the same three elderly gentlemen come in, they wouldn't even need to ask for their order it would be presented to them, no money asked. They'd drink for about four hours or so, talking about cricket and taking the piss out of each other. Every round came when the glasses were empty, without prompting. Each round they'd say to me "And one for you". Each week they'd argue about who was coughing up for that weekends round but one would invariably pay for all and I'd have 5 free pints banked just for serving them, listening to them and occasionally interjecting. It was awesome! Listening to three retired Yorkshiremen taking the piss out of each other for hours whilst getting mildly lashed was absolute quality!

I was drinking at 14 in a town pub that had very dirty windows and a landlord so pissed he didn't know which way was up. Us kids used the lounge bar because it had a bar billiard table. No one else went in there. Except this little old lady with her woollen coat done up to her throat and a little old lady hat on. She never spoke and no one ever saw her move from her seat but she drank sweet stout and despite the contents going down, when you next looked, she had a full half pint. We put up with her spookiness because we were left in peace. Great days.

There is a pub near me with a “no electronic devices policy”. There is literally a sign on the wall saying “pubs are social spaces. We expect our guests to talk to each other. Guests using electronic devices will be ejected “

He almost mentioned the most important thing: one of your group goes to the bar and buys all the drinks while the rest of you find a table. You are now part of "a round" where you each take a turn to go to the bar and buy the drinks for the whole group. This forces everyone to drink at the same speed as the fastest drinker and means everyone gets extremely drunk.

Most of the "international" beer brands sold in the UK are actually brewed in the UK. Pub closing times were introduced in World War One in 1914 as the Government thought that drunkenness could be bad for war production. Then they never got rid of them.

It's worth knowing that 'pub' is a contraction of 'public house,' established as a house open to the public where people can go to relax, drink, and chat with friends. The 'bar' is the counter in the pub where we order our drinks /and food. Growing up in the 80s, the pub/bar in Cheers always reminded me of a rather traditional American pub, not too far removed from the British equivalent.

I used to drink in a village pub that had no bar. Just a tap room out the back from where beer was fetched from. From racked barrels. Everyone sat around in a variety of comfy chairs. Or stood if it was busy. 12 was a crowd. You could get what you wanted, as long as it was Mild or Bitter. Or Mild and Bitter. I think they had Light Ale for the ladies.

One of the largest differences between our pubs and US bars is that they are dog-friendly. They aren't just places for humans to socialise, but for dogs to do the same. My own dog has some pubs he goes to see some of his mates...quite embarrassingly, he'll stop dead outside of some of them & refuse to move on - looking all sad-eyed and pleading. Fortunately he only weighs 3ks so I can just pick him up and move on - but one of his mates is a giant bull-mastiff and when He does the same thing you just about need a tractor to get him to move on.🤣😂 Kids usually love to talk to and/or play with the dogs. I live in Brighton and have never been pushed out of a pub at 11pm. And. uh, Brighton being Brighton we have one woman who strides in with a chicken on her shoulder; some people have pet ferrets, & one or two have a snake - I kid you not!😁😄😁Gotta love British pubs.

He didn't mention that you can pretty much always order cider in a UK pub or restaurant but it's still pretty rare in America.

I think Adventures and Naps gives better comparisons about actual pub culture rather than licensing laws etc. I think it's largely her drinking cider in English pubs that stop her going back to Canada (makes glug glug motion with hand).

Drinking ages in the U.S. (and here in Canada) are somewhat ridiculous. We tell them that they aren’t supposed to touch the stuff until a certain age giving it the appeal of forbidden fruit, then upon reaching a certain age we say “go crazy, all limits are removed”. Other cultures tend to introduce it at an earlier age to a limited degree and as more of a food group (wine with dinner). Prohibition was an abject failure as well.

Over here in Australia our pubs open at 10 am and closes around 2 am. Also the pubs over here are broken down in segments in one area is the sport bar for betting on horses or playing pool. One area for restaurant like meals for the whole family. And one area for the pokie machines

I certainly never got asked my age when I went to pubs as a teenager in the 70s. We had been going to our local for about two years when we had an 18th birthday celebration for one of my friends. The look on the barman's face when we told him what the party was for was priceless.

I have never been asked for ID when out drinking, from a small town in Nottinghamshire. Been drinking in pubs since 15 years of age and drank in the same pub for 12 years. The only time I've ever had to show id was in a supermarket with my son buying a dvd with a 12 age rating.

A lot of us from the workshop used to go over the pub on a friday lunchtime after being paid, and have a pint and egg, beans & chips.

Closing Time is a lot more fluid that he suggests. Late licenses, especially at the weekend, are common.

I once went to Greece, on the outskirts (can't remember the name) but I woke up the first morning and went for a walk, all the wee quaint pubs were all open at 8am, loads of Greek people there having a great time in the sun, went back, got my partner and we just partied with them. Was before mobile phones unfortunately, Was brilliant.

In the other direction, there are diners. Not a British thing, but some will slap a sign: “American Diner.”

"Pub" is an abbreviation of 'Public House' which is a collective term for premises such as alehouses, taverns and inns that are open to the public for the purpose of serving licenced beverages. Consequently, what constitutes a 'Pub' in the UK is pretty varied. Alehouses only provide a place to communally consume alcohol. Taverns also provide food, whilst inns also provide a space to spend the night, ie. rooms to rent. The great majority of modern British pubs serve food, whilst a fair number also have rooms to rent. It is also pretty common to offer Big Screen 'Sky TV,' to show sporting events - like an American sports bar but generally only showing one event, usually football.

Most pubs close at 11pm because they’re located in residential areas. Because of this it’s doubtful they would get a licence to open beyond that time. Some pubs in city/town centres do open later.

The difference between an American bar and a British pub is vast - A lot of our pubs are older than the United States for one so the traditions are massively different - it's not just a place to get drunk. It's a community, a centre for the amalgamation of society over the love of getting drunk.

Ah Closing time, the time honored tradition of a bell being rung at 20 mins to 11 with a shout of 'Last Orders Please' followed by a mass stampede to the Bar

He missed many of the major differences to be honest. I think Lawrence has been out of Britain for a bit too long and his memory is a little foggy. Different Pubs in Britain are different experiences from one another. Some are very much just local drinking dens for the local alcoholics, some at student hang outs but most Pubs around the country are more typically family orientated. You would take the entire family, including the kids, and you might sit and have a Pub meal, a "Sunday Lunch", and many Pubs will have a "Pub Garden" (which is FAR less common in American bars, I guess because most States do not allow drinking outdoors) where own sunny days the adults will sit around picnic tables having a drink and perhaps a bite to eat and the children, usually high on Coca-Cola, will be running around the Pub Garden together causing havoc! Often the Pub will have pet, the Pub dog or Pub cat, who EVERY regular patron will know and say hello to (this is like a subliminal way to announce to everyone else in the Pub that you are indeed a regular). You can often also, along with your entire family, bring your own dog down to the pub. In the countryside you will frequently find families who have taken their dogs on a weekend walk together and then stopped by the local pub for a drink and some lunch before returning home. Another big difference, going back to what Lawrence was saying about the alcohol on offer, pretty much every British Pub will have selections of Cider on tap. When I say "Cider" I do mean "Hard Cider" by the way - we do not have any other kind of Cider in the UK. Cider without alcohol is just apple juice, whether it is "cloudy" or not. I don't know exactly how long Lawrence has been out of Britain, but Cider drinking is a pretty big thing here now. I believe it had gone slightly out of fashion in the 1980s or thereabouts (although you could almost certainly be able to find a pint of Strongbow or some other large brand of Cider back then) but as more and more micro-breweries have become popular there has definitely been a resurgence in Cider's popularity and it is not uncommon to walk into a pub and find more than 5 (often considerably more) different Ciders on offer, and even a few types of Perry. I'm not sure why Lawrence mentions Fosters either - Fosters was pretty common back in the 1990s but I wouldn't have said it was more popular than Carling or Carlsberg or Heineken or almost any other brand of lager. It is also, very specifically, a lager and certainly these days I would say those branded lagers are not as common as he suggests them to be. In fact, I would say it is much more common to find IPAs than , specifically, Fosters nowadays. Again, that is largely due to the resurgence of micro-breweries and many pubs will have a good selection of beers on tap from a small, local brewery ranging from a few lagers to IPAs to Porters/Stouts and a whole variety of Real Ales. Also, contrary to what Lawrence says, you are very likely to discover Samuel Adams beers over here but only when you walk into a Samuel Adams Pub. I admit, I do not know how common they are (particularly outside of London) but Samuel Adams have their own pubs, selling their own selection of beers which, as I understand it, they refuse to sell at any pubs other than the ones they own themselves. That might sound like an odd arrangement (and it would explain why Lawrence would assume their beers are uncommon if he has never had a drink in a Samuel Adams pub) but because of the way they operate with such exclusivity they are able to offer some decent Ales at VERY reasonable prices. In regards to closing times, as I'm sure others have mentioned, most Pubs still close between 11pm and midnight (because of the way Pubs are run its is just not financially viable to keep them open beyond midnight) however that does NOT mean there is nowhere to go for a drink. Britain has, particularly in cities, many bars and clubs which are open well into the night, sometimes all night, and it is quite possible (on Fridays and Saturdays at least) to stay out for 24 hours if that is your thing. The bars/clubs that stay open late though usually do have some sort of security and you may have to pay for entry (occasionally, depending on the venue, it might be quite a lot of money too). Pubs are a real cultural thing here in the UK, unlike bars (or probably even "Pubs" in America) as we will go to the Pub for any reason - to unwind after work, to celebrate a birthday, to catch up with friends, to take the family out, to watch the football, et cetera and so on. Any excuse to go to the Pub we will take it, but it is very much a social thing. If we move to a new area and do not really know anybody, invariably our first port of call is the local pub and it won't take long before we meet and make friends with many people from the area. In America Pubs are either a bit of a novelty or they're somewhere to avoid and give a wide berth (certainly if you are with your family anyway, lol) but in the UK they're very much a beacon of hospitality

Pubs in the UK are also a lot more family friendly and often have family or children's rooms for the kids to play in or outside play areas. Families can go in for meals, especially popular on Sundays.

Pubs are a beautiful thing in uk and its such a privilege to sit in a 300 year old cozy cottage pub with a thatch roof on top while drinking local farmers ale 🍺 enjoying a roast dinner on a Sunday.

My favourite pub is 400 years old. It is situated deep in the folds of the Sussex Downs. It has 5 bedrooms for bed and breakfasts ( book 10 months in advance) a huge garden area over looking farmer’s fields, great food, dogs welcome and provided for with snacks and bowls of water, massive inglenook log fireplaces, wonky floors, oak beams and set in a little flintstone village. I live on the edge of The New Forest in Hampshire. Most pubs around here serve great pub food to family groups and have cosy snug lounges with a fire and a common accessory is a wet smelly dog or two sat under the table. ❤️

Our (UK) bars are open to the early hours in the morning, but not pubs. So you start at a pub, then when they close, you move onto a bar.

Pubs are more laid back and welcoming, you'll see a lot of people go in for a meal and pint during their lunch and go after work etc in their work clothes... whereas bars in the UK are more for getting dressed up (cocktails etc)

Lost in the pond negated to say that due to the somewhat draconian old licencing laws we used to have, in fact closing time for ALL pubs - and other businesses that were licenced to sell alcohol such as resturants for years and years and years was actually ten thirty...which is why last orders was ALWAYS rung at ten twenty to allow for ten minutes drinking up time....then the bar maid's would come out and sweep your glass away from you to put behind the bar for washing, full or near empty ! the licencing laws were only really interfered with post 97 by T L'iar and crew. who also enacted the twenty four hour law, by the way under the old laws ALL pubs in Wales were closed all day Sunday's god knows why - perhaps they were just "Chapel" lol

We have a large pub chain here in the UK. Its name is Wheather Spoons or (Spoons ) for short. There open 7 days a week from 08:00 to 01:00 .You can't purchase alcohol until after 09 :00 .They will serve breakfast until 11:30 .It is good place for cheap food no frills and even cheaper alcohol. Some people will use it as a starting platform for a night out.

There is so much variance in what a pub in the UK is that it is hard to pin it down. A pub will almost certainly serve full main meals. In fact, serving food is a key part of the distinction between a bar and a pub. This might be time gated, and only available in a particular room in the pub - but if it doesn't function as a restaurant for at least part of the day then it isn't a pub. A bar will usually at maximum serve finger food like wings & fries. A nightclub probably doesn't serve any food at all other than bar snacks like peanuts or crisps. A pub may be a bar or a nightclub as a secondary function - but many are just a pub. Often pubs have a speciality. This might be: local beer/"real ale", music/comedy/open mics, food - "gastropubs", sports, students, gaming (pool, darts, quizzes), etc Pubs tend to be child and pet friendly. Bars and nightclubs are not.

Some places in my home town stay open until about 4am at weekends, but in about 2010 i visited Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (northern British city) for the weekend with a few online friends. We were in the pub for the full Saturday night, we left about 7:30am and it was still serving drinks.

An Inn originally was somewhere you could get food ,drink and they were also be able to offer a room for the night , a Tavern would just serve food and drink, and a Public House (pub) just drink.

A lot of pubs serve food at different times during the day. Most will do a range of 'bar meals', simple but tasty 'pub grub' which you can order and eat at/in the bar with your pint, whilst some will also have a separate restaurant/dining room for more formal 'sit down' meals(which can often be hired out for private events and functions, like birthday parties, wedding receptions, etc), you may need to book a table in advance, especially on sundays when people will often go out to eat lunch/dinner as a family.

Our bars stay open till 2. Pubs close at 11. So you start in the pub for chats and catch ups with mates. Then hit the bar for music and partying

I thought I'd add, from the town/county aspect, I live in the rural West County which is a million miles from London and other large cities. Some deeply rural Devon pubs have the village shop, post office, and even the village creshe in them, as well as kids and dogs, go in AND we have open fires in them. I used to live in a small town, where I'd pack off my 10-year-old stepson to spend the afternoon playing pool in the pub, he did dink just play. But I guess this would be not usual in London or other such like hell holes.

Originally folk sold beer from their own houses which were then called " public houses ", and the owners were called publicans, or landlords. Then breweries got bigger, and bought pubs, to sell their own beer in.

This brought back memories of my first pub crawl in Kirkcaldy. I was 14 years old at the time, many moons ago now.

My best birthday present ever was when I got carded at an establishment with a 20 year age limit (and the staff are instructed to card you if they are not sure you are over 25). It was my 37th birthday, so I was flattered. But also, I had no ID on me. So it took some convincing to pass that hurdle. Even better; from the age of 16, I've regularly been able to fool them I was over 20 (about 50/50 chance). So I guess I was blessed with looking older as a teen, and then younger when closing up on 40. Now at 50, the age is catching up with grey hair and all. Oh, well. I had it good before...

I haven't tried an Irish pub in America (the ones I visited were in Germany ) but the ones I have visited were reasonably similar to a British pub (relaxed and sociable and a decent selection on tap), said Irish pubs tended towards Irish brews on tap ! British pubs don't tend to have a vast selection on tap English pubs sometimes have skittles alleys, pool tables (and leagues for each plus darts) and a few still have a shooting range (hold over from the First World War) Pub food tends to be "Good Honest Fare"

A British Pub, the word Pub is short for Public House, you get a varying length bar with beer taps, sometimes all or some of the following:- Lounge room or area, Bar room or area, Snug room(a private small room with bar) where nobody could look in from the outside, a smoke room (now has to be outside the building) a games room, a family garden area, barbeque, inside and/or outside restaurant area, A Serving hatch on the outer wall, to serve snacks and drinks to buyers not wanting to enter the Pub. One of the longest bars in a pub in England belongs to the Boland Beer Hall in Clitheroe Lancashire, boasting a Bar that is over 105 feet long! A lot of drinking houses sprang from Coaching Inns, quite a few retain their original name such as The Coach & Horses Inn.

To add a few things...(Nottingham/Derbyshire, UK) There's something called last orders, where they ring a bell attached to the top part of the overhead bar and shout, "last orders". This means they'll serve no more beer after this time. Tweens, at least when I was one, can drink alcohol underage of eating a dinner and with parents. Most pubs are family friendly and have kids rooms and play areas over here. The pub also serves kids meals as well as adult's meals. We usually always also have pool tables. The beer mats are disposable card and often collected. Pubs usually have playing cards you can lend. It's very common to play games or quizes. Some pubs sell tankards and will personalise them for you in house. They also sell t-shirts or have a bingo card/loyalty card. If you drink say, 10 alcoholic drinks you win a t-shirt. We have tonnes of pubs and lots of microbreweries. They all sell their own unique beers. Stout, cider and porter are more popular in the uk. During covid local pubs sold beer £3? a pint, by using milk bottles and tables wedged between the open front doors as a makeshift bar and everyone sat outside drinking even in winter. Bars are open and very busy at Christmas, lots of music, games and singing. We tend to day drink. It's casual for me to finish work and take a book to the pub and get a pint of in house stout. Dogs are usually welcome. A local nursing home loves taking their residents to pubs. They find it therapeutic for the soul. To be in a place you remember, to socialise with your community, to feel a sense of belonging and normality. Pubs are more like little community centers where you end up knowing the staff and regulars by name.

Pub comes from Public House, so basically any premises that hold a license to sell alcohol to be consumed on the license holders premises is a pub. Shops can get a license to sell alcohol to be consumed off the license premises, which is why they're often called an Off License.

Before 1988, pubs opened at 11am, but had to close from 3pm until 7pm before closing again at 11pm. Once they extended the licencing hours, pub could operate for the full 12 hours from 11am to 11pm. Then, in 2005, opening hours were pretty much scrapped in favour of licences that could, potentially, mean they could open 24 hours a day, but most chose not to exceed past midnight. The only exception being nightclubs and the like.

In the UK we also have micropubs, which are exactly what the word suggests. They can be found under railway arches, or sometimes on the station itself, but typically they're refurbished former retail outlets. The majority sell a wide and constantly changing variety of cask and keg ales at very competitive rates. Staff and customers alike tend to be knowledgable and welcoming. Conversation is encouraged by the absence of TV sets, loud music, pool tables and gambling machines. The only drawback is that opening hours are often limited, especially during the early part of the week.

Children U.18 , O.15 can drink in pubs, provided the alcohol is of a certain type and it’s part of ‘a substantial meal”. Also, all of the beers mentioned would be remedied “lager” in the UK. Darker, stronger ales are more common in pubs and are served un chilled.

Many pubs have tv sets to watch football (or other sports on), possibly enough so you can see a tv from any part of the pub (I think the most I've ever counted is about 6, oddly I actually count TVs in pubs professionally (don't ask)), but if you find a pub with a tv it is usually only one or 2, and many have no TVs at all. More traditional pubs tend to find the notion of having tv offensive. Private Members Clubs and American style sports bars are a different story, there you will often find many TVs and/or a projection system showing "the big game." Pub closing times.... Many if not most pubs have actually applied for extended hours, they just choose not to use them. This gives them the flexibility to be open later if they choose, especially for events like New Years, or for a private event. This also is about pubs, and is associated with pub culture, wine bars and cocktail bars are often open later, and night clubs are just getting going when pubs close.

I think the video missed out some major differences, it looked at it from a more beer drinker perspective than anything else. Pubs are generally more social places and can sit anywhere on a spectrum between bar and restaurant (so basically a tavern), Pubs usually primarily cater to local residents, the vast majority of houses are in easy walking distance of at least one pub. But the main difference is the social aspect, Bars are places for adults to drink while Pubs usually cater more towards families (but not always), so you could take your whole family to most pubs, while the adults talk, the kids play with lego or use swings/jungle gyms outback. Most pubs also tend to do food and the "Pub Lunch" is famous over here. This is to say, that people tend to get a "favourite" pub that they call their 'local' and they generally learn and interact with other people that go to the same local. There is a familiarity with it and it becomes a 3rd place. A pub isn't a place you go to when you want to get drunk, it is a place you go to when you want to be social. UK also has more than it's fair share of bars and nightclubs, those are generally the places people go to when they want to get drunk. While the drinking age technically is 18 in the UK, there is an exception also worth noting too this, which is that under parental supervision that is reduced to 5. Tho you'd never see it in a pub really, it's more for churches with bread and wine.

My husband got carded in Las Vegas and refused entry into one bar in Bellagio. He was 60 and a silver fox 🤷‍♀️ Still a silver fox I hasten to add at 67. But really! Bizarre 🤣. We headed back to the Baccarat Bar and got served 😁. Fabulous hotel and Vegas was amazing!❤️❤️

What Laurence didn’t mention is that most pubs serve food you read the menu then go to the bar and order your food and drinks in Wetherspoons you can either order at the bar or use the app at your table to order.

Because historically people were very local in their lives, local factory work, local shop, local church etc, drinking in the local pub,(like one on basically every residential street), was the defacto thing to do in the evening, especially in a time of low TV and car ownership. Nowaways, people are more mobile, and a lot, I mean A LOT of local pubs have closed, and a lot that are still there seem to be subsisting on the over 60s crowd, and are probably just going to age out of existence. The ones that havent are trying to use food, quiz nights, sports, tribute acts, and anything else they can think of to sustain business. The plush city centre pubs are basically a different animal socially, and in some ways like the american bar that is 'aping' a traditional experience.

Whole families regularly visit British pubs along with dogs. Village pubs often have a garden area with seating, very popular in the summer months. My local serves meals to the outside tables. Some pubs will even have a skittle alley or Boules court

There are different styles of pub in the UK. Country Pubs, City Pubs, etc. They can have themes and entertainment. Most serve food. Many now have full service restaurants. Some mild alcoholic drinks can be drunk by children of 14, provided they are purchased by an adult and served with a meal. Most pubs allow children accompanied by adults. Particularly for meals. Country pubs, in particular, have outdoor facilities, gardens, and play areas. Most, depending on location, are now family friendly. I'm not sure if they still have the old style sing alongs that were still such a feature of East End Pubs in London some decades ago. I have great memories of taking some US clients to an "authentic" East End pub at their request. There was a chap playing an upright piano and taking requests for songs. Gradually, the whole place was singing along to familiar old music hall songs that everyone learned at their grandparents knees. Knees Up Mother Brown On Mother Kelly's Doorstep Maybe it because I'm a Londoner Bicycle built for Two My old man said follow the van It's a long way to Tipperarry Danny Boy Down at the old Bull and Bush My Bonnie Cockles and Mussels etc. etc. The US clients loved it! They got drunk on the atmosphere alone. We made some very good new friends... and business deals. 😉👍😄

One thing the video didn't mention is that a local British pub tends to be family friendly. Often with a dedicated family room.

A very important part of British pub culture is CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale. I can't remember when this started - at least the 1970s. It arose from the fact that many pubs, being 'tied houses" were only being allowed to sell the beers commercially produced on a big scale by the companies they were tied to. These beers were poor. Only a few pubs were "free houses", which didn't sell the beer for nothing(!), but could sell which beers they wanted. CAMRA has worked hard and successfully to improve the quality of British beer, helped by Gordon Brown, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, granting a tax concession to "microbreweries", small breweries where the beer is made by traditional methods, and is often excellent. There seem to be many more free houses than there used to be. CAMRA produces The Real Beer Guide, a detailed, county by county, list of pubs serving good ale, and which contains discussions of the tastes of individual beers. It also gives local awards for good beer.There is also real cider - cider in England is always hard cider - which is drunk a lot towards the South West. (There are even 'cider houses'.) (But for goodness' sake don't mix real ale and real cider! It's the quickest way to get out of your mind I know...) And some of the pubs are certainly historic, such as the Fleece in Bretforton, which is owned by the National Trust: it is 14th century, with a 17th-century interior, and yet is the normal pub of the village.

Dartboards. Once upon a time, pubs had dart & domino leagues, usually Monday nights. Pub teams would visit each other’s pubs and, after the matches, the Landlady would put on a spread, various sandwiches, pickles, pork pies, black pudding, all the pub would dive in, a happy, friendly evening. You were either a darts player or a domino player. The following week the home team would play away. Pubs had A & B teams, results were printed in the local rag, and there were A & B league tables. At the end of the season prizes were dished out, and plenty beer drank. All this died out towards the end of the 70’s, at least in my town. Have to say that I really, really miss those wonderful times.🎯

in northern ireland pubs have last orders at 1230am and close at 1. when i lived in wales i was shocked that i tried going into a pub at 10pm and they were really cheeky and wouldnt lwt me in and accused me of using another pub earlier. turned out that the pubs there shut at 1030pm!! i actually got served in chicago irish pubs under 21 without id the irish community look out for eachother. if they got warning of cops coming everyone ran out the back door

I like your format of reaction video! You pause when you find something interesting to talk about instead of watching the whole video the commenting! Keep up the good work bud!

The drinking culture in the UK is so varied. We have pubs, but we even have sub sections and depending where the pub is, the type of clientele will be totally different as well. We also have "bars", sports bars, cocktails bars, nightclubs. If when visiting the UK, you should try a variety. From the country pub, to a town pub, to a city pub. Guarantee you're experiences will vary greatly! Where I live (a small town of 15,000 people, there are 5 pubs within a mile radius) and all with their own atmospheres. Closing times also vary and can also depend on the day of the week. Ranging from 11pm to 1am.

Fun fact or disturbing, in the UK a 5 year old can have a glass of achohol, so long it is in a private place (family home). Under the age of 18 you can drink in the pub with a meal but not all pubs allow this however it's not against any laws

Nightclubs in the U.K. close at around 2AM or later and some pubs have lock ins out they are the exception to the rule

so the thing is, while pubs in europe(yes, europe, the uk isn't the only to have them) tend to close around 10-11pm, because a lot of them operate on a similar schedule to cafés and restaurants, our clubs will literally be open until sunrise. so you can go to a pub with your friends and family, then the older people, the kids and the ones that have to wake up early go home to sleep, and the rest go to a club to get piss drunk and only get back home at like 6 or 7am

In Britain a bar is the place, in a larger building (usually a Public House or Hotel), where you buy your alcohol. In olden days it was literally a 'bar' on the floor separating the serving of drinks, from barrels, from the rest of the room. It gradually got higher and higher, then 'bar' stools were added for seating in front of the bar. Public Houses were literally houses where the public were allowed access in order to purchase alcohol. The Licence Holder ( Licensee) also called the Landlord is responsible for the 'good running' of the Pub but is not required to be on the premises.

One of Britain's best activities is the "Pub Crawl". An exercise where you travel from one pub to the next one having a pint in each one and see how many you can visit before you fall over.

PUB is short for Public house. A public house is licensed to sell alcohol. It is more than just a bar. It can provide food and is usually part of the community in which it resides. It may have darts teams and/or skittles teams that are part of local leagues playing other pub teams in the area.

All my local "Pubs" do have TVs but a small fraction compared to your "Sports Bars" across the pond, normally you'll see between 1-5 TVs in my local pubs all playing the same channel for sports or music. There is one pub I do frequent to and they have the pub split into 2 half's with the bar in the centre, left side of the pub is for sports the right side is for socialising. If I don't won't to frequent this "Pub" I go to my town's local "rock bar" still called a Pub, the TVs there play music or music videos all day till closing time, even though its a Rock Bar anyone is welcomed in the doors as long as your respectful and don't course any trouble. Heck I've seen rockers, goths, chavs and skaters all sit down and enjoy a chat and drink despite their social preferences. A Pub is differently a place of social gathering and a place to make new friends

I was asked for ID aged 45 at JFK airport travelling back home to London. This was in the Terminal 7 British Airways lounge and the barman was British! I burst out laughing and slated him. He served me my beer and we had a laugh. And yes, it’s not uncommon for Brits to have a lunchtime beer with workmates. I suggested this to my NY workmates and they looked at me like I was crazy. Generally pubs in the UK are family/community meeting places, that’s why they’re called “Public Houses”. Often, historical building landmarks. The pub I worked in was built in the 16th century and was a staging post for horses travelling from London to the North of England. Staging posts were where the horses pulling the coaches were fed/watered or exhausted horses were changed over.

My mother doesn't drink alcohol but enjoys going to the pub for lunch. British pubs also sell soft drinks, non alcoholic drinks, tea and coffees.

“Drunk people throwing sharp objects” - a lad I know wandered too close to the dart board & a badly thrown dart embedded itself in his skull. He was in shock & went to pull it out, but was persuaded not to & to wait for an ambulance. While he was waiting, he went to the bar & got himself a pint, with a dart sticking out of his head.

Most pubs in the UK close at 11 because they're based in local neighborhoods, and the people living nearby don't want the noise going on in to the early hours of the morning. If you want to carry on drinking then you can move on to a bar which will be open longer.

Basically pubs are a cosy front room, to chat and laugh, eat and drink, and watch some sport on a big screen TV. Children can have a drink if having a meal with someone 18 or, over. We have darts, some have pool tables, dominoes can be played too. Wedding breakfasts, and wakes, plus birthdays can be held in the pub.

in northern england, people start drinking at 9am, but generally head off about 1pm for lunch and to do other stuff in the afternoon. they tend to drink less than 4 pints, during this morning session.

Omg, it’s Laurence! His channel is fun. You could quite a few reactions to his videos! Great job Tyler! P.s. I HATE TV’S in every place you go to eat. 😡 Darts are a thing in Canada as well as pool tables. Plus you can take your kids and usually your dogs with you to a pub during the day.

Pubs are social local meeting places, often with an open fire or area of relaxation. Usually there are a variety of games to play including a pool table, darts board and other communal games. Although official closing times are often 11pm often if you are a regular you will be invited or allowed to stay well past closing in what is known as a “lock in”, at my local we would often (most days of the week) stay in till 2-4am. British pubs also have a family atmosphere and during the day till early evening you see a lot of children with parents coming for lunch or dinner. Beer gardens are also a staple of British pubs with a dedicated outdoor area for drinking. The list goes on but the term “public house” can be almost taken literally as that. A home away from home. PS our pool tables are also harder with smaller tighter pockets.

Pub comes from public house or free house, it was common for lower class workers in the old days to be homeless and rough sleeping, public houses would allow you to buy a drink and stay for the night but you had to sleep sitting… traditionally they also offer accommodation and food for passing travellers serving as an important gathering space in their local communities

In summer evenings when I was a kid my parents would take us for a walk and we'd go to a pub, kids wouldn't be allowed in but we'd stay in the beer garden where they would often have a kids playground. The kids would get a bottle of lemonade with a straw and a packet of crisps, many happy memories of doing this. Also just before closing at 11pm pubs might ring a bell or shout to indicate ' last orders', as they are not allowed to serve after 11& some pubs do 'close ins' I think it's called where they let locals stay chat and drink beyond the time but they pretend the pub is closed!

There's nothing better than meeting family at a cozy old Tudor pub with open fires when its cold and miserable outside. There's always that one old boy sat with his dog curled up on the floor next to him, pint of Guinness or John Smith's in hand. Everyone greets each other and chats as you go up to the bar to get a drink. It's just a cultural treasure that I personally think is a cornerstone of the British identity and the Pub industry should be considered as culturally important as the NHS.

British Pubs and the name is from Britain ..Licenced Public House, not Irish Pub or Austrailians Pub they just took the idea. A Pub is a place to socialise with friends and family. In my Grandparents day before TV, pubs would have a piano in them and during weekends family and friends or neighbour would meet up there to drink, gossip, have conversations and someone would play the piano, they would all sing along to the songs of the day. Men mainly frequented Pubs and the bar was were the men went and the snug or the parlour was were the women went. The husbands would pop into the snug to buy the women the drinks evey 45 minutes or so, a women never went to the bar her self to buy a drink as it was seen as too bold and unlady like. There were Darts, skittles or playing cards for the men and before betting became legal in Britain many bets were done in these places. After the pub closed they would go outside and and often play betting games...penny-toss. marbles and take small bets on who would win. Today pubs have changed with specialised beers, gardens for family and children to play in while the parents have a drink on a nice summers afternoon or evening. They offer pub food which is traditional British food and occassionally a Curry or something a little French. Pubs are Britains social place to meet for adults. They offer games such as Darts, pooltable, quiz-nights, amature football teams from pubs are in their own leagues and play each other, They offer live music from bands, groups or singers on their own, some bring in comedians even magicians or Karaoke. It can be a meeting place to move on to else where or a place to stay the night or just to go for a British Breakfast, Lunchtime or Evening meal, even Sunday carvery for an English Sunday Roast.. They usually have TVs for the latest football game showing and some pubs have become sports bars attracting the sports punter and jukeboxes for music.

Regarding closing time, remember that in the UK the normal working day is from 9.00am to 5.00pm so plenty of time to go to the pub and drink from, say, 7.00pm to 11.00pm. I believe in the USA the working day ends much later hence the bars close later..

Welcome to Lost in the Pond. Laurence is a treasure on both sides of the pond. His videos are great.

In my home town every pub had a darts team. There was an annual tournament.

There are a few pubs in the UK who open 3 times a day. Near places of heavy industry or fishing that work shifts. If you have been bashing iron all night you will need a drink for breakfast when you come off shift. Opening hours restricted to 11pm normally due to the location of pubs in a suburban area or near housing. In the countryside closing time depended on the landlords relationship with the local police. And in cities you can always go to a night club for an all nighter.

Once the pub closes at 11pm, you move on to a club or bar and keep drinking until 3am, or later in the big cities

There are 2 types of pubs here in uk. One is a drinking pub. It’s just somewhere with a bar where people gather to drink alcohol. Then there is the second type of pub : somewhere people go to eat AND have a drink. Some pubs also have rooms you can rent for stay a night or two in. Lastly some pubs (usually the drinking ones) also do quizzes or sports viewing nights (usually for a major football/socker game).

A bar is more like a club. Pubs are like English households mixed with a bar. They have a fireplace, sunday dinner and a regular crowd.

We do have bars in the UK but they are strictly for adults, look a bit more up-market than your ordinary pub, are a lot more expensive and tend to serve cocktails where as pubs don't really sell cocktails but you may find the odd pub that does. Most pubs just serve beer, spirits (liquor) and wine. We do have a pub chain called Wetherspoons which sell cocktails but that's not your run-of-the-mill traditional British pub. Pubs close at 11pm unless you know the landlord and then they will let you have a lock in (which is against the law to charge people for alcohol after 11pm in a pub because the license only takes them up to 11pm but it's not illegal if they give you drink for free lol). Bars stay open until about 3am but then we also have nightclubs which can stay open up till 6am. I am from London so I am speaking strictly from a big city perspective, I know other cities in the UK have the same but I can't speak for smaller towns and villages. Bars and clubs have security on the door and Wetherspoons do have security on the door in the evening not the day time again depending on the type of Wetherspoons it is.

One of the best things about British Pubs are the Names pubs I use include, The King William, Fox and Grapes, New Inn, Lamp Tavern, Bird in Hand, Red Cow, Five Ways, Greyhound, Little Barrel, Malt Shovel and there are hundreds if not thousands of others.

Most Pubs not only serve drinks . They also serve meals . Children can go to the Pub , if we are having food . This can be a snack , a Burger , or a main meal . Also lots of Pubs allow dogs to come in . A lot of Pubs open as early as 7-00 am , to serve breakfast . This is often served untill 11-00am . Lots of pubs charge a fixed amount for this , but you can help yourself from heated containers . Choosing what you like , with no limit on how much you eat . Also you can have as many cups of tea or coffee as you want .

As a hobby, I brew my own craft beer in September and every Christmas sell a couple of firkin to the local pub. I don’t make beer for sale at any other time of year, so it’s always a limited edition. Invariably all the beer sold is drunk on Christmas Eve and it takes a whole year until my next craft beer goes on sale. I always name the beer with both a local and Christmas connection. I don’t know if this happens in the US but it certainly does in a few villages in the UK and I recommend the hobby to anyone who likes beer to be something more than cold, fizzy and often tasteless.

While a UK Pub will close typically at 11, in Cities and most towns you'll have "Clubs" where you go to dance, drink etc until the wee hours. Usually you'll have to pay to get into a club and there will be security on the door etc. When I was younger we used to go to a few pubs 1st on a Friday or Saturday evening and then at around 10.30-11 move on to a nights worth of "clubbing". Another way some pubs used to get around the whole shut at 11pm rule was to hold "lock ins" where the landlord would lock the doors to the pub at 11 and continue to let those already in to purchase drinks, as there was basically a loophole in the law that said private parties held in pubs could go on later into the night, so if the police were to knock on the door, the landlord would just say the people were part of a private party and everyone inside would, with a nod and a wink, go along with that statement.

He didn't mention that British pubs mostly all have pub gardens and that all British pubs are open 7 days a week.