"Men who worked in factories and mines would drink pints and pints of it after work, partially to rehydrate without getting hammered".
And the people did come from far and wide to watch men drink pints, smoke Regal filters, and chuck arrers.
It was the hour before his fellow-enthusiasts, at ten bucks a head, packed the place to drink pints and watch a match on a giant TV screen.
Young women in thrift-store finery and scruffy young men shoot pool, hobnob and drink pints of Paulaner at this retro-trendy bar.
She quit after less than 10 years, fed up with an environment in which she felt it was necessary to drink pints and go to the pub.
Sit at one of the small, rickety tables downstairs and drink pints of stout by candlelight, beneath high red walls covered in rock posters and fairy lights.
When he's older he'll go to the pub like his father, drink pints galore, stick the finger down the throat to bring it all up, drink more pints, win the bets, and bring the money home to his mother to keep her from going demented.
There might be frictions and rivalries, but the two detectives share secrets and a wry humour, drink pints of beer and glasses of wine together, bring humanity and wit to a world of poverty and gruesome murder.
Each and every solstice and equinox, we would gather in the Central, a tiny pub in Gateshead town centre, and drink pints and catch up and take stock and occasionally sing.
