Originally Posted by
Aqualung
I remember years ago going to a GBG listed Gray's pub somewhere East of Chelmsford and being taken aback as to how good it was. The trouble with beers like Pride, GK IPA and Doombar is not so much that they are "bad" beers, but they are so commonplace and many of the pubs that sell them either don't or can't (because they don't sell enough) look after them.
The Genie is out of the bottle now with the explosion of new breweries in London, so I will never feel the need to ever visit a pub selling boring (although it might still be crap as I discovered on Friday!) beer ever again.