Had a beer in London today. Shocked

[vetran]

Hadn't seen this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53363826

A man who built an app in his spare time that highlights independent pubs close to Wetherspoons venues, says he has been amazed by the response.

The Android app Neverspoons has been downloaded nearly 18,000 times in its first week - more than Shane Jones expected from the first six months.

It is currently top of the free app chart on Google Play.

The name is a pun on the pub chain Wetherspoons but Mr Jones said he just wanted to give smaller pubs a boost.

[SueEllen]

village pub is doing a "spirit clearance sale" which involves a lot of FB posts along the lines of "shots shots shots" / "free shot with every pint" and so on... in small letters at the bottom "please drink responsibly"

If they put the price up to £8 per shot with mixer they would achieve the "please drink responsibly" aim.

[Lance]

£2.20 a pint of Doombar or £3 for a pint of my own in my local here in Leamington Spa

Doom Bar is vile nasty tulipe though.

[d000hg]

Doom Bar is vile nasty tulipe though.

Can't agree with that, though it's not my favourite Cornish ale.

[jamesbrown]

If you can be arsed (I can't), there are always relatively cheap beers in every part of London. Try being a student there and you will know. Someone put together a tube map of cheap beers a couple of years back and £3-£4 a pint is (or was) easily achievable, and I don't mean Bud Light (blech). OK, not the £1 a pint from student days of yore, but not bad. £6 is pretty average in central London now.

[Lance]

Can't agree with that, though it's not my favourite Cornish ale.

I know plenty of Doom Bar fans. I just don't get it. It's neither bitter, nor hoppy, just completely meh. And sooooo cheap. Hence why so many bars have it. It is the Carling/Fosters/XXXX of real ales.

this is the greatest beer in the world
Landlord - Timothy Taylor's

Honourable mention to Chinook blonde Our Beers - Goose Eye Brewery, Crossflats, Bingley (goose-eye-brewery.co.uk)

If I was in London and could get either of those, served properly, I'd be happy with £6 a pint. Clearly the OP went to the wrong bar though. There's plenty of reasonably priced bars in t'smoke.

[d000hg]

I know plenty of Doom Bar fans. I just don't get it. It's neither bitter, nor hoppy, just completely meh. And sooooo cheap. Hence why so many bars have it. It is the Carling/Fosters/XXXX of real ales.

this is the greatest beer in the world
Landlord - Timothy Taylor's

Honourable mention to Chinook blonde Our Beers - Goose Eye Brewery, Crossflats, Bingley (goose-eye-brewery.co.uk)

If I was in London and could get either of those, served properly, I'd be happy with £6 a pint. Clearly the OP went to the wrong bar though. There's plenty of reasonably priced bars in t'smoke.

My favourite pub's landlord agrees with you on TT but it's also about the most expensive for pubs to buy - I know someone who works for their sales department.

I haven't had DB for a while, but I was a fan before it suddenly became a national brand so it may be different to what I used to enjoy as a local beer in Cornwall.

Personally I'm a huge fan of Proper Job

[Gibbon]

I know plenty of Doom Bar fans. I just don't get it. It's neither bitter, nor hoppy, just completely meh. And sooooo cheap. Hence why so many bars have it. It is the Carling/Fosters/XXXX of real ales.

this is the greatest beer in the world
Landlord - Timothy Taylor's

Honourable mention to Chinook blonde Our Beers - Goose Eye Brewery, Crossflats, Bingley (goose-eye-brewery.co.uk)

If I was in London and could get either of those, served properly, I'd be happy with £6 a pint. Clearly the OP went to the wrong bar though. There's plenty of reasonably priced bars in t'smoke.

I don't get DB either, if that's the only real ale on offer I have a lager.

TT is OK, but my favourites are the Leeds and Kirkstall pale ales, plenty of hops.

Wainwright is also good. As is Sam Smiths Old Brewery if drank on a sunny day riverside at the Kings Head in York hic!

[Lance]

My favourite pub's landlord agrees with you on TT but it's also about the most expensive for pubs to buy - I know someone who works for their sales department.

I haven't had DB for a while, but I was a fan before it suddenly became a national brand so it may be different to what I used to enjoy as a local beer in Cornwall.

Personally I'm a huge fan of Proper Job

With you on Proper Job. That's a great beer. I used to drink that here https://www.brunswickderby.co.uk despite them being a brewery in their own right.

Maybe a mod can make a sticky thread for beer recommendations?????
Or we could just totally hijack this one as it was bulltulip anyway.

[Gibbon]

With you on Proper Job. That's a great beer. I used to drink that here https://www.brunswickderby.co.uk despite them being a brewery in their own right.

I used to drink in there too occasionally, use to love their Triple Hop and really good pork scratchings, Yum Yum!