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    Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post

    The Spoons Christmas guest list is usually the most boring one of the year. How can anything that isn't a true Winter beer (Old Tom, Headcracker, Moonraker etc etc etc) possibly be a Xmas beer? Instead we get a boring selection of low ABV beers with daft Xmas names from regional brewers or larger micros.
    And you can't use your vouchers during December either
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bucking Fastard View Post
    And you can't use your vouchers during December either
    A timely reminder, must make sure they are all used by the end of the month. Thanks BF .
    I've just joined Alcoholics Anonymous - I still drink, just under a different name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Millay View Post
    A timely reminder, must make sure they are all used by the end of the month. Thanks BF .
    Damn. I was planning to (re)join CAMRA! Not that I ever go to a 'spoons.
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    I have been a member of CAMRA since 1974, although my membersip lapsed briefly some time in the 80's as I didn't get round to renewing. I became a life member in 1990 for the princely sum of £100 or so.

    I was told the other day that the annual subs are now approaching thirty quid.

    The Spoons vouchers are the icing on the cake!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post
    I was told the other day that the annual subs are now approaching thirty quid.
    If you pay by direct debit it's £23 for the over 26s and under 60s, £15.50 if you're under 26 or over 60. So for the young and the coffin dodgers who use 'spoons it's got to be a no-brainer. Life membership is now £414.

    If you can talk your wife, husband or partner into joint membership it's cheaper each but you get only one set of vouchers .

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    If you pay by direct debit it's £15.50 if you're under 26 or over 60.

    If you can talk your wife, husband or partner into joint membership it's cheaper each but you get only one set of vouchers .
    I think I'll wait for a couple of years! Mrs W doesn't drink,so vouchers and membership would be wasted.
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    Has anyone come across a list of the Spoon's Xmas ales?

    There are supposed to be 22 of them, but I can't find a list on the web site. I think all of the Spoon's I've been to recently have had the boring Hobgoblin on and the few Xmas ones I have seen have looked pretty dull. The Chingford Spoons had Orkney Clootie Dumpling at 4.3%, but it was going at the premium price so I didn't bother. I tried the Burton Bridge Santi-Freeze (4.5%) and to be honest it was a bland boring red ale which I think I may have seen before.

    If it carries on like this then it looks like it's going to be Brodie's all the way for me until January, unless I can find some extra beer tokens to visit the Cock in Hackney.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post
    Has anyone come across a list of the Spoon's Xmas ales?

    There are supposed to be 22 of them, but I can't find a list on the web site. I think all of the Spoon's I've been to recently have had the boring Hobgoblin on and the few Xmas ones I have seen have looked pretty dull. The Chingford Spoons had Orkney Clootie Dumpling at 4.3%, but it was going at the premium price so I didn't bother. I tried the Burton Bridge Santi-Freeze (4.5%) and to be honest it was a bland boring red ale which I think I may have seen before.

    If it carries on like this then it looks like it's going to be Brodie's all the way for me until January, unless I can find some extra beer tokens to visit the Cock in Hackney.
    I have been in a few different Spoons in the last couple of weeks,but have not noticed any lists of Christmas beers,the only proper Christmas beer i have noticed was Butcombe Christmas Jester in the Woodthorpe Top.

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    Attachment 788

    Apparently in the latest Wetherspoon's news.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    Attachment 788

    Apparently in the latest Wetherspoon's news.
    Thanks for that, I saw the News in the King's Ford and never thought to pick it up. I'll get it on Friday, although it does look pretty uninspiring. They now have a three tier price structure for guest ales so why there aren't any over 5.5% I don't know (I think the third tier is 6% plus). to me a Xmas beer is Old Tom or Orkney Skullsplitter. Maybe they are too much for the once a year brigade.

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