Wetherspoons have recently started selling bottles of Singha Beer priced at £1.99 a go.


Yum Yum - not as nice as the real ale or the Siera Nevada Pale ale in bottles but a welcome addition to the range of drinks available.

Wetherspoons pub finder.

Cheers
Lee

I paid £2.19 for a pint of Stella Artois in the wetherspoon pub "the Square Peg" in Birmingham yesterday, but I am sure that when I buy Stella Artois in "Hamilton Hall" liverpool street london its £2.60.

Bit unfair me thinks !

I cannot stand Wetherspoons pubs. In the day they are usually full of the dregs of society coming for the cheap ale ( it's great seeing how your taxes are being spent ). At night because of the no music policy you just get a constant drone of conversation like someones put wasps in your ears. Also there is the no smoking at the bar rule, microwave meals, staff that don't give a hoot etc etc.

Give me a decent olde worlde country pub with home cooked meals, a bit of background music and no silly rules any day.

Mark W says:
"Give me a decent olde worlde country pub with home cooked meals, a bit of background music and no silly rules any day."

Sounds like you go to Witherspoons pubs

I like all pubs that serve real ale!

And given that Wetherspoons often have a selection of 5 or 6 real ales - well I cant resist.

My ratings!!!

Excellent

Certain areas NO Smoking
And quite a few Wetherspoons pubs are smoke free

No music so you can enjoy a decent chat or a read!

A fine selection of Real ales

70p a pint cheaper for real ale

Not Bad

Staff helpful but in short supply.

Quite Poor

The food - but having said that you get a lot of crap in olde world pubs but it costs you more!

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KM - the pricing does seem different from pub to pub.
I pay 1-49 for a real ale in Rhyl
& 1-69 in Mold.
20 miles between the 2

3 hrs and I'll be on a lunch break
Guess where I'm going

Lee

quote:

Posted by KM
Sounds like you go to Witherspoons pubs

I don't think we have them round these parts, must be a southern company.

When Wetherspoons opened up across my street it was a happy day for me (a real ale addict). And for some time they served a wide variety of decent cheap real ales.

Right now over half the hand pumps are permanently "off" - and I have had to return two or three pints for being undrinkable.

Thank heavens they serve decent bottled stuff - but better still there is the only tied house for the Pilgrim Brewery just ten minutes away. Heaven!

Ian

You not tried The Crown in Matlock then Mark.?
And what happened with the BBQ drum then (whilst I'm here)

IanB - The availabilty of ales is very much down to the individual manager /ess at each establishment as they have a free say on what they stock (from a certain selection).

In Rhyl the real ale is always of good quality but the selection is often very poor ... Abbots Ale and Marstons only some nights.
The manager is not a real ale fan and it shows.

Whereas in Mold they always have half a dozen to try, and they run there own beer festivals in adition to the country wide Wetherspoon events.

The manager there is a real ale fan and again it shows with his selection.

I had to laugh at the staff here in Rhyl last year ... run up to Christmas ... old tom at 9% ... I'll have a pint of Old tom please ..... sorry sir we only sell it in halfs because of it's strenghth !!

Ok .. 2 halves of old tom please .... and a pint glass!
Yes sir!

Lee


Less than 2 hrs to go

quote:

You not tried The Crown in Matlock then Mark.?
And what happened with the BBQ drum then (whilst I'm here)

I have been in The Crown Lee, that's where I have got most of my data in the above post from. Not been in for a while now though, rather go to the Railway across the road.

quote:

Ok .. 2 halves of old tom please .... and a pint glass!
Yes sir!

They wouldn't sell me a purple nasty (lager, cider and blackcurrent ) some time ago in The Crown so I had to do a similar thing.

The BBQ ?? I haven't got a scooby doo where it went. Going to start the first stage of build the boozer a new BBQ tomorrow.

Mark,

down here its called a snake bite and you can have as many as you like until you fall over (home time sir!)

colin244

ps only found singha in thai restaurants so far

It's called a snakebite and black here in Coventry. We used to drink 'em till we dropped when we were in our 20's. Some hangover in the morning

After reading this went out especially and had a singha 330ml bottles for £1.99.....
Wetherspoons are excellent cos they buy the beer up before it goes out of date hence they get it cheap and can sell it on cheap.....WOHOOO

If you take one of them ploysteyrene bottle holders/coolers with you it kind of adds to the effect.....i miss los