BEWARE!!!!
So I've been a local at this pub on and off for over 10 years and tonight I was let down by the on site manager whom has always previously been excellent. I ordered a schooner of beer and had to pop outside immediately after ordering it and said to the bar staff "Would you mind keeping the beer behind the bar for a few minutes, I'll be back shortly".
I returned in under five minutes and the on duty manager picked up my beer to hand it to me. I politely asked, "Can you give it a squirt of beer from the tap to freshen it up?" to which she said NO!
I was gobsmacked!!! I asked why, to which she replied I was apparently asking for extra beer when the glass was reasonably full already. I attempted for a sense of reason that to spurt a small amount of beer and a bunch of gas into the beer to freshen it up is not only at a cost of less than 15 cents AU it's also a standard request in pubs internationally! I spent over $50 AU in the hotel.
Eventually she conceded with extreme reluctance and massive attitude which I'm sure you'll agree is completely out of touch with any bar keeping unwritten rules!
Ask yourself this, if you leave a beer at a bar and ask a bartender to freshen it up if you come back after 5 minutes it's a given, not a cost to the hotel.
Marks out of ten tonight...minus ten!