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[edit] landlords and beer?

Could someone please explain what landlords and beer have to do with each other? This is in regards to "It is possible to revive a cask with worn-out finings by adding a fresh batch, but many if not most landlords are not prepared to undertake this."

Thanks, Khromatikos 23:11, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

In Britain, the term "landlord" can refer not only to a person who rents out a property to a tenant, but to a person who runs a pub. In terms of property, the landlord may own the pub, rent it from a brewery, or be merely an appointed manager in a large "pubco", but he (or she, in which case "landlady") is the senior person on site, responsible for the daily running of the pub. The traditional staffing structure for a pub (ignoring the kitchen, if any) is a collection of casually-employed "barmaids" and "barmen", who actually serve the drinks, and a landlord who does everything else including the skilled work in the cellar (and may also work behind the bar if it's very busy or if trade is slow and it's not worth employing staff). I don't think the term has any technical significance or legal meaning, but it's common in normal conversation. PeteVerdon 22:46, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I was coming to ask this very thing. In the interests of comprehensibility to those of on the the other side of the pond I'm adding barkeep. --Belg4mit 22:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wine ref

"Finings Information for making wine" should probably be removed or actually converted into a proper reference --Belg4mit 03:36, 31 March 2007 (UTC)