Bars with the sign but no Loburg
So, this is the scenario where the bar used to sell Loburg, but now no longer does. This is probably the most frustrating scenario. I have encountered this situation on many occasions, too many to recount here. Quite recently I was in a town called Langeais on the Loire; saw a Loburg sign in the distance overlooking a bar. Of course it was a blind; this was one of those examples where the barman looks at you oddly when you ask if they sell Loburg, despite the sign out the front. I could recount many more examples of this scenario.
As noted in the intro, sometimes the bar is still there but no longer sells it: in the case below, the whole bar has closed down.
Bar in Alencon, France. Photo taken in 2019; the bar is now closed. Look at those beautiful porcelain taps. What a shame.
Bar in Bagnoles-de-l’Orne, France. Sign out the front says they sell Loburg but they no longer do. But the bar in the background does, so all was not lost. Photo taken in 2022
Bar Au RDV de Montmartre in Paris; happiness with a 50cl Loburg in Jun 2022. By Jul 2024 they no longer sell it, nor anything else worth drinking-see photo below.
This is the current offering of beers on tap at the same bar; a more motley collection is hard to imagine. One has to ask: “what were they thinking?”
Typical of the scenario where there is a sign out the front but when you go in, you find they don’t really sell it at all. This was in Arras, France, 2019. Luckily, like what happened in Bagnoles de l’Orne, I found another bar in the same square that did sell it. And like the bar in Bagnoles, they didn’t have a big sign out the front like this one, but it was on the list of beers available-see photo below.
