Heard the one about the public house that forgot to renew its alcohol license? That’s what happened over in Greenwich, in a pub that I have promised not to name after speaking to a harassed landlady who informed me, ‘It might be funny to you, but I’ve just spent the whole morning down the council sorting out the paperwork.’
However, having respected her wishes to keep schtum for nearly 24 hours, I can stay silent no longer.
The pub has managed to secure an emergency license that allows them to serve booze from Friday to Monday, but during the week they have incorporated a bring your own bottle policy, as drinkers discovered when they turned up to the weekly quiz on Monday night and were then sent home to raid their own cupboards for leftover alcohol.
The owners of the nearby Theatre of Wine can expect to make a roaring trade for the next month.
The Great Wen 
I think this is a great opportunity for the Greenwich pub to ‘Twin’ with a pub I went to some years back in New South Wales Australia called the Pub with no Beer.
This Aussie pub, the Taylor’s Arms, ran out of beer at some point many years ago and then became famously known as the pub with no beer. It now makes a fortune from this terrible error. Our Greenwich publican’s should take a leaf out of our Aussie relations and profit off the back of this humungous error for years to come!
http://www.pubwithnobeer.com.au