It’s official!
We are one second faster than Eusain Bolt!
We have the fastest bar in the West.
The North West that is, Atherton to be specific.
At the 2011 festival, the Friday evening session set a new record for quantity sold across the lager bar. During the six hours the festival was open, 1,022 litres were dispensed; at least as best we can estimate. Measuring the quantity of beer dispensed isn’t yet a precise science.
1022 litres is near enough to 1,800 pints for the workings out.
1,800 pints sold during the six hours the festival was open.
On average that’s 300 pints an hour.
Or 5 pints a minute.
Non-stop. Every minute!
If we guess that half of these pints were sold as halves, and half of these pints were sold as pints, this means that three glasses were filled (either half or full) for every two pints sold.
At 5 pints a minute that’s 7 1/2 glasses a minute of lovely lager being delivered across the bar.
Or, to put it another way … a glass left the bar every 8 seconds.
AND THAT’S BASED ON AVERAGES!!! One wonders just how fast that beer was moving when the bar was running at peak capacity in the middle of the session?
As we are now hitting limits in terms of just how much beer we can sell to the people in the hall I don’t think we’re going to be beating that figure any time soon. It’s a bit like the 100m. Usain Bolt’s world record time of 9.58 seconds (set in Berlin on August 16, 2009) was only 11 hundredths of a second faster than his previous one. The faster one gets the harder it becomes to improve.
But if the lager bar can stay one second faster than Eusain Bolt I think it’s a deserved title to call them The Fastest Bar in the West.