I also hear you need a HazMat licence to transport it

Saying that though you're stomach is full of Hydrochloric acid and you could probably clean a bog or loosen a bolt with that stuff too.

I've probably had far more bad pints of coke than beer, eg when the gas cyliner is out, or the nozzel is on too far and its too strong, or too weak, or when coke and diet coke are mixed up

Same thing could be said about vinegar, wine or most things which are quite acidic

Heaven forbid that they ever serve me Diet Coke by mistake, its bad enough when you ask for Coke and they say "Its Cola is that OK" which translates to "Its not a brand that you'll ever have heard of but we'll charge you £3 for this shoite anyway"

And then of course,

"Would you like a load of ice with that so we don't have to put so much of this cheap fizzy syrup drink in the glass and can make EVEN MORE profit ?"

Thats the most annoying part. I once got chatting to a guy who worked at subway, and the average cup of postmix cola costs about 5p to the retailler.

To pay almost £3 for a glass is ridiculous

Its is, but keeps the world turning.

Landlords would see epic increased profits if their punters swapped to pints of post mix cola.

Can someone remind me how much is a pint of coke (of any description) in a pub?
How much of that is excise duty?
& you complain about pubs profiteering?
PS like Co'J I'm a fully paid up sandal wearing (only in the summer months) pensioner with a beard who's a fully paid up CAMRA member.
PS Co'J I only pay £15.50 for my annual CAMRA membership.

Oops - a slip of the memory - it is only £15.50 for over-60s membership of course - even better. That would buy you another 3 pints from Wetherspoons

I used to have a copy of the 1978 CAMRA Good Pub Guide that we used as a bible in that year, it had about three pubs in Leeds in it & most of our touring weekends were spent around Bradford (which had dozens), Keighley and Halifax which were both well represented.

Then I got moved up to Newcastle and had to forget all about good beer for eight years...

Somehow labs and real ale don't seem to go together - and most large breweries have forgotten how to brew real ale. I certainly have enjoyed some excellent real beer in Wetherspoons over the years.

i'm currently working in the area of sam smiths where real ale is still brewed in traditional slate squares. not really a drinker but the smells lovely!

Even the micro brewers have to get the chemistry bit together or you end up poisoning your clients - my mate has since been shortlisted for two small independant ale brewery jobs simply for that reason, its a chemists job when all is said and done which doesn't mean that you are brewing from artificial ingredients and chemicals, but it does mean that you are carefully controlling the brew constantly with the eye of a scientist - its not home brew.