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A local pub has faced criticism this evening after advertising a reasonably standard priced jug as a ‘Welcome Back Special.’
The Dog Whistle and Fiddle, a recently renovated and rebranded version of The Clock Hotel in Betoota’s French Quarter, has been blasted for asking patrons to come into their venue on the back of a promotion offering 20 dollar jugs of some random craft beer to celebrate the place being open again after 70 odd days of closure.
“We are doing $20 Jugs of our house beer, The Thrifty Pensioner,” said another one of the pub’s posts on social media.
Betoota local and regular pub-goer Eli Kruger told The Advocate today that he is considering taking the pub to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for misleading and deceptive conduct.
“20 bones for a jug of craft piss? How dare they advertise that as special,” he said.
“I can’t believe they’ve got the nerve to pretend like they are doing the punters a real solid by offering that this evening. After all we drunks have been through these past couple months! They pull this shit on us!”
Kruger said he will just be sharing a couple of jug’s of Betoota Bitter with some friends this evening as he always did before this madness began – and maybe a jug of New if his ex-pat mate joins him.
We contacted the establishment about the offer, and they explained that they think it’s actually a pretty sweet deal.
“Um, the Thrifty Pensioner is actually a really interesting beer, so I think for anyone with a palate it’s actually a steal.
“We aren’t targeting the ‘punters’ anyway. We are trying to pull in the trust fund baby uni students from up the road and all of the creative cucks from the agencies and firms in the French Quarter,”
“So drop in for one tomorrow from lunchtime!”
