I really don't care about your baby.

[50nifty]

I'm in a taproom with a friend.

A couple arrived with their 32 day old baby. And 2 flights of beer.

They're talking very loudly about how baby is/isn't. They've already pulled 2 other tables into the conversation about their baby and feeding/sleeping/clothing/nappies.

My babies are adults. Friends babies are adults.

I know I wasn't this insufferable when mine were little. Friend says she wasn't either.

We both know we didn't go out drinking when baby was 32 days old.

Babies are really precious creatures. But only to their parents/family. Most people don't want to get drawn into a conversation about a strangers baby.

In essence, stop talking so loudly about your baby. The rest of us really don't care.

AIBU?

I love a taproom, and any form of flight to allow me to taste a range of styles of whatever is filling them.

A flight of ports in Porto was particularly good. As was a flight of champagnes in an airport that i then expensed as it showed as a single drink and the boss thought flight was because it wss before a flight.

But a taproom is different to a pub or a bar. That's why it's called a taproom. You can buy beer, on tap, from where it's made.

Sounds like something from a 19th century novel "Mr Brigham and his companion Captain Fitzherbert repaired to the local taproom to reminisce about their time in the army over victuals and a choice of flights"

In essence, it's the wrong type of pub for a baby. They want a family-oriented pub.

Regarding the conversation - excessively loud and performative conversations are annoying whatever the subject. I don't think the fact it's about a baby is in itself irksome.

I say this as a childfree by choice woman, so it's a subject on which I am neutral.

I agree but most people are insufferable especially over their firstborn. Like to think I wasn’t but I’m sure I was!

Never ever took them to pubs though or inflicted baby conversations on random strangers. Particularly insufferable.

It’s more ‘Nine CAMRA bores in matching T-shirts opined at some length about the quality of the IPA.’

Where I used to live the taproom
was very civilised. Expensive. Gourmet bar snacks etc. Very naice and probably cleaner than most soft plays so I wouldn’t have had any issue taking a small baby there, especially in the day.

And it’s a very British thing to not take your baby to a place that serves alcohol- Europeans are fine with it by en large. And IMO the kids and the adults have a much healthier attitude to alcohol than the British.

I just want to know why they're called flights 🤔

Death in the family and feeing overwhelmed? I don’t know, I’m just trying to give benefit of the doubt.

This is much more interesting than babies.

Where did you do this martini flight @VickyEadieofThigh ? I want to go urgently.

The term taproom has been around since the Middle Ages. Since local breweries and selling direct to customers existed. Before pubs and bars, before mass produced tasteless lager existed.
As people rediscover the delights of a variety of styles of ale, small local breweries have reinstated the concept so they can attract customers to try their beers. It isn't pretentious, it is trying to help small businesses survive in a really difficult climate. They are smaller than pubs and bars and tend to be a whole lot more civilised as well, as the point is not to get hammered. This is not specific to the UK either.

I mean you’re in a craft beer taproom they tend to attract insufferable people 😭

I love seeing babies in pubs or out and about.

I don't like seeing barking, farting dogs in pubs.

I guess we all have our bete noirs OP.

🤣🤣 and I thought I’d met the only woman to ever have a baby just last week!

Totally agreed @50nifty babies are well boring. Im not even bothered about holding them? I'd rather have that delicious looking beer!

I was thinking a taproom sounds very Jane Austen.

Lost me at craft beer to be honest. Give me a wee baby any day.

Delicious - is that a Westie on the right? Looks like my kind of beer.

Not read the whole thread - they gone yet?

I went to pubs and restaurants and on holiday with a young baby in a sling or buggy. She was really easy and mostly slept. I used to have a glass of wine or a beer. I didn't realise people like Ms Judgypants would be counting my units and disapproving. My daughter is now 18 and has survived very successfully and happily. You are in a taproom, not delivering a PSHE lesson.

Performative parenting meets performative grumping.

I have visions of beer glasses with wings...

I dunno I mean I think it’s fine to bring a baby to a pub like that early in the day for a short while during a time when the baby is settled. Just don’t inflict your baby talk on other customers etc etc .

Me too.

I only thought you could have flights of beer. Please tell us more.

We went to the upstairs room as we couldn't bare their performative nature any more. Baby seemed a darling, but parents kept loudly trying to pull anyone into their conversation about the minutiae of her short life.

The beer was delicious.