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I agree, their beers are common in Northern Spoons and I've not had a problem other than the haze you often get with strong hoppy beers.
I've only been to the Ledger Building once and that was in...

I had a pint of it on keg in Perth and agree with your assessment. I also thought 5am Saint was a dud.

I can't imagine pineapple ever working as an ingredient as it has very low acidity. Furthermore, whoever came up with the idea of putting it on top of a pizza should be sectioned. Presumably the...

The Celt Experience Bleddyn was one of the better options to grace the national Wetherspoon guest list so I was interested to try what is now Celt Bleddyn. The old beer featured New World hops but...

They often have a Fixed Wheel guest in there and I thought I'd had that one but can't find it on my BOTW Notepad list. I've found them to be reasonably OK but not really top notch.

I've had no trouble with Green Devil Bottles. When JDW used to do Devil's Backbone on keg it varied enormously. The bottle is still available as the "free" drink with a meal and has been much more...

The problems for me started when they ditched a raft of their nice small country outlets and began a process of over-renovating their pubs plus charging too much for their AK & Country which are...

IMO McMullens lost the plot years ago, so they are on my extensive AVOID list. I've got two of their pubs within fairly easy reach and haven't been to either for over 15 years..

Not at all There's a bloke in my local Spoons who also tries all the real ales and you can guarantee that if he likes one I probably won't and vice-versa. I haven't been around much there lately but...

And of course there are potential unintended consequences like it being interpreted as a tribute to the unexpected death of an American pop music icon. I had to endure a pint of their George and...

Do you mean this place? I thought their Saturnalia was excellent but it was the last pub of many on the day. They've been around a long while and my recollection of them is that they tend to be...

There's a lot of it about!

As it happens I visited a couple of Brain's tied pubs while up there and tried their ordinary bitter in both. I was really surprised that it had a decent taste and was very drinkable. It won't win...

I don't often post a BABOTW of my own on here as most rubbish beer (excluding sours) is poor because for whatever reason it's not been served in good condition. On my last night in Wales I was...

Probably the last proper decent pint I had of Landlord was at the Cross in Heptonstall around 1990. Prior to that the only top notch pint I had of it outside the TT tied estate was in a free house in...

No wonder you don't like my comments on these forums!
I had a smoked beer today by C&F which was in good nick but quite honestly I didn't really enjoy. I could manage to drink it unlike the sours....

I did wonder about that, does a new beer "count" if you can't drink it?

I've had some lemon flavoured beers over the years that I've rather enjoyed, Salopian Lemon Dream being a more recent one. The real turkeys from Brodie's are the sour beers. I really don't think I...

I don't recall trying that one but do recall having decent pints from this brewer over the years, mainly Old Knucker.
Let's hope they are not going down the Cottage Brewery route of mass producing...

Believe it or not I've actually been to that pub over 30 years ago, long before Old Empire ever existed! Unless there is another Marston's canalside pub at Stoke Bruerne then it must be the same one.

There are Spoons that do it but they have to charge extra so the cheaper ones just never bother to get it in. When I say "extra" it probably means it will only be a quid less than Nicholsons! The...

I've had this one quite a few times as it's a permanent Spoons guest. To me it's just like a strong version of Abbot and I've never found it notably sweeter than the original. I've always called it...

I've only come across Worthington E as a keg beer and I would be very surprised if the keg version was as strong as cask Bass.
If Fred has been drinking Bass for just 30 years it would be after it...

I very much doubt it. The "Hop Bomb" stuff that divides opinion today is created mainly with New World hops.
It was a genuinely fine beer in the seventies as was the original Boddington's....

Back in the seventies I used to work one evening a week behind my old student union bar where they sold cask Bass and Fuller's ESB, both of which needed a fair time to settle. Bass was a great drink...