It Appears That Northern Monk Have Called Me A KnobHead , It's The Breweries Decision To Lower ABV!!

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  • @Fighter-o3h
    @Fighter-o3h 3 месяца назад +57

    You dont have to make excuses simon never!. free speech 👍💯🇬🇧.just tell it how it is like you do m8 it's a beer review channel ffs 😸youve caught them out with truth honesty they didn't like it... tough shit!dont let the bas...ts grind you down keep strong💪

  • @franknsen5e
    @franknsen5e 3 месяца назад +58

    Really pleased to see you steering into this Alan Partridge-esque content

    • @Jhizzle2495
      @Jhizzle2495 3 месяца назад +11

      Idea for a tv show man sits in kitchen and reviews beer awaiting a response from a brewer in which they call him a knobhead

    • @affalaffaa
      @affalaffaa 3 месяца назад

      @@Jhizzle2495 If you don't do it ITV will

    • @jamesthorley4442
      @jamesthorley4442 3 месяца назад

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@Jhizzle2495

    • @MonkDave666
      @MonkDave666 3 месяца назад +4

      @@Jhizzle2495 10 minutes after filming this video Simon drove to Dundee in his bare feet.

    • @sintrasax
      @sintrasax Месяц назад +1

      Oh man, You're so right! It's gone from mildly interesting beer reviews to comedic gold.

  • @SABrian-vs9ju
    @SABrian-vs9ju 3 месяца назад +90

    The funny thing about this video, and I say this in good Faith, is that in protesting about Northern Monk calling you a Knobhead, which it doesn't seem they did. You've made yourself look a bit of a Knobhead.

    • @Morrie-queens
      @Morrie-queens 3 месяца назад +19

      True,but posting this comment has made YOU look like a bit of a knob ed too.
      Saying that,now I've posted this comment I suppose I look like a bit of a knob ed also.
      Maybe we're all knob headed?

    • @garyburchnall5514
      @garyburchnall5514 3 месяца назад +9

      Maybe we're all just knob Ed's 😂😂😂

    • @Jhizzle2495
      @Jhizzle2495 3 месяца назад +1

      @@garyburchnall5514 most definitely

    • @steventhompson9319
      @steventhompson9319 3 месяца назад +7

      The Knobhead paradox @Conor-B

    • @paulgaunt2986
      @paulgaunt2986 3 месяца назад +5

      ​@Conor-B it's as if we're stuck in a knobhead Bermuda triangle

  • @steventhompson9319
    @steventhompson9319 3 месяца назад +49

    They are offering personalised cans for Father's Day. Someone has added 'Knobhead' to their personalisation. They've also posted a screen shot of this. Thinking this has managed to make its way through the marketing and communications team as some sort of personal attack is pretty wide of the mark, I'd say.

  • @theindiediary5950
    @theindiediary5950 3 месяца назад +44

    It is mind blowing how your brain works.
    Paranoia is a wonderful thing 😂

  • @PotatoPirate123
    @PotatoPirate123 3 месяца назад +20

    If someone shouts 'knobhead' and you turn around expecting someone to be calling you... you *might* be a knobhead.

  • @AlienMidget123
    @AlienMidget123 3 месяца назад +81

    Northern Monk: Posts something funny promoting their personalised cans.
    Simon: No, no, no, no. This whole thing. It’s all about ME.

    • @alexy8520
      @alexy8520 3 месяца назад +5

      Is that you vanman?

    • @AlienMidget123
      @AlienMidget123 3 месяца назад +1

      @@alexy8520 🤣

    • @andrewsteer8860
      @andrewsteer8860 3 месяца назад +25

      I saw their post and they don’t mention Simon or his channel in it all. I didn’t even see any reference to him, did I miss something?

    • @mrchips1795
      @mrchips1795 3 месяца назад +12

      ​@@andrewsteer8860you need a dozen beers to see it

    • @PMason85
      @PMason85 3 месяца назад

      @@andrewsteer8860 you need to be a pisshead to figure it out.

  • @AOF012
    @AOF012 3 месяца назад +24

    This is absolutely hilarious and gets worse as it goes on! Comedy gold. They don't have a clue who you are let alone to dedicate a beer after you 😂

  • @sunline75
    @sunline75 3 месяца назад +27

    Mate you've lost your marbles. Looks like the downward spiral has begun. Northern Monk should call their next beer Laughing Stock

  • @benharris2686
    @benharris2686 3 месяца назад +17

    Remember when Judy finnegans top came open at that award show and everyone whooped and hollered and then Richard Madeley instantly thought it was for him? Cringe.

  • @fourtwentyhellions7185
    @fourtwentyhellions7185 3 месяца назад +30

    This is one of the weirdest and most unhinged take ive seen in a while mate

  • @jaserogers997
    @jaserogers997 3 месяца назад +11

    I love that he's made this video, including the monologue at the end about how the whole beer industry has it in for him, based on the premise (which was incorrect) that a national brewery called him a knobhead. Genius.

  • @jonnythegamemaster
    @jonnythegamemaster 3 месяца назад +17

    I don't think it's about you. The social media post shows it was a customer order for a personalised can and they fulfilled it.

  • @jonathanwatson2427
    @jonathanwatson2427 3 месяца назад +30

    Post is most definitely not about you Si - it’s a marketing campaign for personalised cans - the only comments relating to you have all been added after you posted this video 💯

  • @sheffboy63
    @sheffboy63 3 месяца назад +12

    Think an apology to NM is in order

  • @simonstockley1967
    @simonstockley1967 23 дня назад +2

    Keep up the reviews Simon, find them educational and fun!

  • @MonkDave666
    @MonkDave666 3 месяца назад +7

    I have passed this video on to the community mental health team at Barry hospital. Hopefully they can help you. 🙏

  • @Thromboc
    @Thromboc 3 месяца назад +20

    Northern Monk: "Who?"

  • @TobasscoJelly
    @TobasscoJelly 3 месяца назад +15

    I dont understand why you think it's a personal attack. Knobhead as a title for a bear is hilarious.

  • @richardburgess2863
    @richardburgess2863 3 месяца назад +7

    Spotlight effect in full glory.

  • @Liam-yr4uf
    @Liam-yr4uf 3 месяца назад +12

    Needed this laugh, whether it's satire or not 😂

  • @jimb9951
    @jimb9951 2 месяца назад +5

    I don't do drama, but if I did, it would probably be the best drama in the world

  • @paulapplewhite6135
    @paulapplewhite6135 3 месяца назад +13

    Simon, a "proof" is a print sample, typically for a new label. I've checked proofs in my job. I really think you're barking up the wrong tree here!

  • @davidbeagley4853
    @davidbeagley4853 Месяц назад +1

    Well said. Always love your honesty and your channel. The sticks and stones crow bar could have been a title option there! 😅

  • @steve-bk1qd
    @steve-bk1qd 3 месяца назад +8

    "Just cos you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you".

    • @mrc8985
      @mrc8985 Месяц назад

      Nirvana - Territorial Pissed.

  • @Shankz96600
    @Shankz96600 3 месяца назад +12

    It isn’t about you….but if the shoe fits let it 😂😂😂

  • @petethompson3510
    @petethompson3510 Месяц назад +2

    Studies show that continuous excessive alcohol consumption can cause paranoia. (see Real Ale craft beer)

  • @waynegriffith9124
    @waynegriffith9124 3 месяца назад +10

    I thought it was about me

  • @john4013
    @john4013 3 месяца назад +4

    Drives me mad that ABVs are getting lower, but it just makes me find new beers at an ABV that I’m comfortable with.

  • @Richard-ju2ly
    @Richard-ju2ly 3 месяца назад +19

    You don't like drama, and you're not a drama queen, but you posted a loooong video at Christmas time making on you were unwell, but you were actually just constipated 😂

  • @tomsafail
    @tomsafail 3 месяца назад +9

    Paranoia paranoia everybody’s coming to get meeeeeeeeeee

  • @neilmurphy4859
    @neilmurphy4859 3 месяца назад +26

    You need to lay off the old Faith - it's making you para

  • @theefishlippedone
    @theefishlippedone 3 месяца назад +8

    Lol this was about their personalized cans

  • @7quidstudio
    @7quidstudio 2 месяца назад +3

    Yes, you're barking up the wrong tree Si 😂

  • @JohnCena-vv6vq
    @JohnCena-vv6vq 3 месяца назад +13

    Paranoia in its fineist form

  • @user-jr3qc5xz5f
    @user-jr3qc5xz5f 3 месяца назад +11

    Not sure I get this? Seen the Instagram post but don't understand the direct correlation of that with Real ale Craft beer?? What do you know that the viewers don't Simon???

  • @deggstoid
    @deggstoid 3 месяца назад +35

    Paranoid or wot? Simon put 2 and 2 together and got 5.4.

  • @chris9650
    @chris9650 3 месяца назад +16

    Given your limted vocubary of beer tasting descriptions i doubt they care what you think.
    Lay off the beer for a while, clear the head get out there see theres a bigger world out there and you and drinking loads of beers every day.

    • @sherlockgnomes8971
      @sherlockgnomes8971 3 месяца назад +6

      It’s called being a narcissist . He is a man who lives in his own world where he’s the centre of it…

  • @FreeLancerLondon
    @FreeLancerLondon Месяц назад +1

    I've spoken with George Michael and he told me,'You've got to have faith' It's a purile response that you'd expect from the playground not from a responsible organisation. I'm sure they reduce the ABV to reduce the duty and keep the price down/increase profits. Take no notice 👍😎

  • @johnnoon9498
    @johnnoon9498 3 месяца назад +8

    Don't see how it's connected to you. The reduction of a abv is an annoyance. Just make a different beer, name it something else and set the abv how you see fit. Don't ruin your successful beer.

  • @_lecro_
    @_lecro_ 3 месяца назад +5

    Its a promotion there doing for Fathers Day, you get a six pack of faith with any name you wont on the can upto 12 letters . It's absolutely nothing to do with you :D

  • @mrchips1795
    @mrchips1795 3 месяца назад +10

    Did you actually look at the post properly? 😂👌

  • @jamesfurphy3219
    @jamesfurphy3219 Месяц назад +1

    Balls to the haters...keep up the great work.

  • @PaddytheGSPOutdoorAdventure
    @PaddytheGSPOutdoorAdventure 3 месяца назад +2

    Great view Simon, your videos are spot on….don’t listen to the B.S, you’re a legend, keep up the great work 🍻👌😎

  • @twomacks1
    @twomacks1 3 месяца назад +10

    Making a video about something that’s doesn’t bother you!then why make the video big contradiction..not into drama then don’t make the video..most definitely a drama queen

  • @Jhizzle2495
    @Jhizzle2495 3 месяца назад +43

    Most definitely isn’t about you

    • @Morrie-queens
      @Morrie-queens 3 месяца назад +2

      That's exactly what the northern monks would say.

    • @Jhizzle2495
      @Jhizzle2495 3 месяца назад +1

      @@Morrie-queens you caught me out

  • @jontrewfrombarry
    @jontrewfrombarry Месяц назад +1

    Please explain why they are reducing the abv? What is the reason behind it. Does it effect the duty on it?

  • @DeltaV3
    @DeltaV3 3 месяца назад +8

    I've just seen the post and I don't think it's about you Si? Looks like they are just having a laugh with personalised cans? I agree though that the constant reduction in ABV is a bad thing.

  • @arturobandini4078
    @arturobandini4078 3 месяца назад +16

    This is the most schizophrenic beer review I've ever seen.

  • @andyk3412
    @andyk3412 3 месяца назад +3

    Not sure this is aimed at you Simon, however i'm currently drinking 5.4% Faith and the difference between this and the 5% version is most certainly noticeable, not in a good way i might add.

  • @MrJocky82
    @MrJocky82 3 месяца назад +1

    I've been watching you a long time Simon, I love you personally, and the channel.
    As for people finding you offensive, I can't imagine why, you come across as honest and INOFFENSIVE.
    If NM haven't mentioned you personally, I'd file this under "non event" mate.
    Keep doing your thing.

  • @markjohnathanappleton8642
    @markjohnathanappleton8642 21 день назад

    Samuel Smith's brewery actually but UP there abv on a keg lager, Sam bottle beerds are supior to northern monk old school beers , but top quality ingredients no adjunts are all 5abv or above

  • @William-Anderson
    @William-Anderson 3 месяца назад +3

    All these lowered ABV beers should have 'light' added to their name as that is what they are. I also don't understand why we cant have both versions such as a 5.2% Stella and the 4.6% 'light' version. Give people a choice!

  • @london_TC
    @london_TC 3 месяца назад +1

    I'm quite motivated to try and find a can of the old ABV to buy now!

  • @paulcuthbert
    @paulcuthbert 3 месяца назад +2

    Where's the Kronenbourg video you mention at 9:28? I've stockpiled the 5% ABV stuff so curious to know what the 4.6% brew is like for when my supply runs out!

  • @tonyjoe5707
    @tonyjoe5707 3 месяца назад +10

    I get the impression that you hope its about you, so you can have a rant. Aren't they doing personalised cans for FathersDay? Yes. I'm sure that if it was about you, it would have appeared a lot sooner. But you've slated their beers before, again, I'm sure they'd have done it sooner.

  • @PMason85
    @PMason85 3 месяца назад +9

    Also. Clickbait much?

  • @billguyan1913
    @billguyan1913 3 месяца назад +2

    Well I like your channel, and if I buy a beer I haven't tried the first thing I do is look to see if you've reviewed it.

  • @andyc750
    @andyc750 3 месяца назад +4

    on about feeling self important, very much doubt they even saw the review and certainly don't care

  • @Dreamweaver787
    @Dreamweaver787 3 месяца назад +31

    To be honest Simon, I don't think Northern Monk aimed this at you, no disrespect but a company as big as them and a tiny channel on RUclips they wouldn't waste there time.

  • @liamhsheffield849
    @liamhsheffield849 3 месяца назад +8

    Like others i don't see how this is related to you tbh Si. Northern Monk seem to be testing personalised cans and they are testing what you can and can't write on them and their post is supposed to be humerous and show whats slipped through the net with what i can only assume is an automated check. Its 10 days later and they put a post out thats not related to you and with no reference to you. Looks like you may have lost their faith in collaborating in the future...drama where there is none.

  • @paulpeirson65
    @paulpeirson65 3 месяца назад +1

    same as Tiny Rebel, Clwb Tropica now 5% and a shadow of its former self, I've notic3d Cali Pale is now down from 5% to 4.5%, I won't be trying that one.
    Then again, Edelweiss hefetrub on the Blade has been reduced 5.3% to 5.1% and it's still great.

  • @tonybickle9933
    @tonybickle9933 3 месяца назад +7

    Thats right make it about you 😂😂 cmon si

  • @WelshCockney.
    @WelshCockney. 3 месяца назад +2

    Never apologize for the job you do, you review beer as I do, we might not be cicerone's, but we love beer, so we tell it how we experience it. We will never please everyone, the more popular you get the sharper the knives. Carry on doing the great job you do. Call them out when you need to. Good job my friend

  • @adammolloy6842
    @adammolloy6842 3 месяца назад +5

    Total ego maniac, saying hes not into drama as well 🤣🤣🤣 the guys a child

  • @JoanneTelling1
    @JoanneTelling1 Месяц назад +1

    Does Sainsbury's sell Knobhead?

  • @vaughanwarburton9623
    @vaughanwarburton9623 3 месяца назад +1

    Keep on -keeping on, sending my cheers and beer's from the Saddleworth brass band contest 🍺🍺👍👍🏻🍻

  • @taz454
    @taz454 3 месяца назад +1

    Opinions are opinions, we're all entitled to them.
    I'm interested in doing my own taste test now.

  • @trevellyanblack4101
    @trevellyanblack4101 3 месяца назад +1

    Many's the time I've bought Northern Monk Faith from Morrisons, it used to be two packs for a tenner. I would much rather have you as the moral guardian of our beer Simon, than letting the brewers run rampant, no matter how big or small they are. As you've pointed out, many brewers have surreptitiously lowered their abv over the years, in what to us buyers seems a cost cutting exercise (or more cynically, naked greed).

  • @Ngamer834
    @Ngamer834 3 месяца назад +1

    It is rather annoying these ABV reductions and not uncommon for brewers to reduce them further at some point. They end up being different beers. This seems less of a thing with the Ciders that I drink but for Beer they all seem to be at it.

  • @michellelove4988
    @michellelove4988 3 месяца назад +1

    You're right. As a reviwer, you are giving the consumer an insight into what they spend their money on. The brewery decided to reduce the ABV, and if that makes the beer not as good, then that's on them 🤷‍♀️🍻

    • @realaleguide
      @realaleguide  3 месяца назад +2

      Absolutely Michelle, it’s our duty to our viewers to say if a beer is worse off if the abv has been reduced, it’s water off a ducks back to me, I hope some of these breweries reverse their decisions on abv reductions

    • @AllyRobson
      @AllyRobson 3 месяца назад +1

      @@realaleguide
      “Water Of A Duck’s Back” hazy ipa !

  • @LukeJQ
    @LukeJQ 3 месяца назад +1

    I made the mistake of buying 8 NM Faith yesterday assuming it was the old faith. Massively disappointed

  • @GavGrumble
    @GavGrumble 3 месяца назад +1

    Reducing the alcohol content in beer is not necessarily a problem; it's more a case of underbrewing and producing beer-like commercial products and passing them off as original.

    • @Sozbear
      @Sozbear 3 месяца назад +1

      It almost always leads to a reduction in taste without any real price reduction.

  • @TheAlb100
    @TheAlb100 Месяц назад +2

    Only reason they called you what they did is that they dont want people to notice what they're doing. Thats it. Its a trick on the consumer and you're calling them out on it.

  • @sherlockgnomes8971
    @sherlockgnomes8971 3 месяца назад +5

    This is some straight up paranoid narcissist behaviour. What a bizzare perspective to think it’s about you 😂😂😂

  • @xsm5525
    @xsm5525 3 месяца назад +8

    I think all those cold-chip-sandwiches you've been eating lately is effecting your mental health mate!!! lool

  • @burningbeard9478
    @burningbeard9478 3 месяца назад +1

    best be gettin out of the UK Simon......the US welcomes you with open arms...hell come to Oregon and I'll supply the beer if you mow my lawn let me berate you....cheers

  • @johnsindiedisco
    @johnsindiedisco 3 месяца назад +2

    No drama!

  • @andyarmstrong1175
    @andyarmstrong1175 3 месяца назад +3

    Nice one! The customer is always right! Personally I don't go anywhere near all these cartoon coloured hideously overpriced cans with stupid names just tell them to knob off👍🇬🇧

  • @hatherlow
    @hatherlow 22 дня назад +1

    you need thicker skin than this to survive in the cesspit of social media

  • @tyrranicalt-rad6164
    @tyrranicalt-rad6164 3 месяца назад +3

    Simon's not a knobhead.... he's a bloody chazzwuzzer ! 🤣

  • @johnthomas8731
    @johnthomas8731 Месяц назад +1

    ? i live in chiang mai ?

  • @gustavjansson6499
    @gustavjansson6499 3 месяца назад +10

    Not about you Simon what so ever

  • @cameronashworth1754
    @cameronashworth1754 3 месяца назад +1

    George Michael once said you gotta have Faith so there you have it.

  • @badllama8090
    @badllama8090 2 месяца назад +1

    Awful stuff for me, Have you tried Beavertown Gamma Ray or Lupoloid?

  • @penhullwolf5070
    @penhullwolf5070 3 месяца назад +4

    You get the most flak when you are over the target Simon.
    Reducing the ABV is almost always a sign of lowering the quality of the ingredients to enable mass production.
    I used to buy Faith regularly but won't touch the new stuff.
    You can keep the Faith Northern Monk.
    I've lost it.

  • @nathanbrady2704
    @nathanbrady2704 3 месяца назад +1

    Yeah superlagers are crap now they are 7.5 rather than 9% I blame the Scottish parliaments alcohol tax.
    A pointless law that has not done anything but make people poorer and has not affected drinking behavior at all.

  • @brendandonnelly3063
    @brendandonnelly3063 3 месяца назад +1

    I didn't recognise you with the haircut.
    On Erdinger here.
    Cheers. 🍺👍

  • @ed2000888
    @ed2000888 Месяц назад +1

    It is about him!

  • @tobyjackman3212
    @tobyjackman3212 3 месяца назад +2

    _... you probably think this song is about you, don't you??_
    Don't ever change, Si - this was enjoyably unhinged.
    Maybe take a day off though, old bean 😉

  • @ratemybeer1
    @ratemybeer1 3 месяца назад +3

    Great fair video we need People like you to keep highlighting that we are getting robbed and robbed... & taken for mugs... ABinbev even doing it on the Perfectdraft now mate Bud 4.5% ABV & mahou 4.8% ABV Brewdog reduce less known ones as well.

    • @realaleguide
      @realaleguide  3 месяца назад +1

      We must keep highlighting this mate, keep pushing the message via the Perfect Draft kegs :-)

    • @ratemybeer1
      @ratemybeer1 3 месяца назад

      @@realaleguide 100% mate we moaning on there pages all the time. You the man to keep going on as it's only the truth you are telling. Remember Mr Average goes into his local Supermarket don't even know 1666 lowered from 5.0% to 4.6% as they keep it quiet how would you know...

  • @allyhenderson8018
    @allyhenderson8018 3 месяца назад +2

    Brewdog did it with Elvis Juice toning it down to 5. Im presuming folk stopped drinking it as it went back to 6.5. Leffe has dropped to 6% and defintely tastes different. Cant understand why Northern monk would drop their strength on a great beer. I wont be touching any of their beers after seeing this. Keep up the great work Simon 👍

  • @steveakka
    @steveakka 3 месяца назад +7

    It's not all about you....

  • @alientruthseeker666
    @alientruthseeker666 13 дней назад

    Where are all of your beer draft machines? What happened??

  • @richerich5611
    @richerich5611 2 месяца назад +1

    If these companies would stop ruining good beer😮

  • @allancollins1531
    @allancollins1531 3 месяца назад +1

    Well said

  • @emospider-man6498
    @emospider-man6498 3 месяца назад +3

    I disagree with you all the time.
    Still watch your channel.

  • @rayd.295
    @rayd.295 3 месяца назад +1

    HA don't worry about it. As you say, taste is subjective.

  • @Jaystars
    @Jaystars 3 месяца назад +8

    If Northern Monk stopped wasting grain on silly beers that taste awful like Aunt Bessie's or the desert beers, perhaps they wouldn't need to reduce the ABV and make the poor excuse of it being more sessionable.

  • @exetercitycubing408
    @exetercitycubing408 3 месяца назад +1

    New faith is nice enough for the price.