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No Real Ale in Heathrow Terminal 3

Just returned home from the UK. Had a great time up in North Yorkshire (stayed at the Maypole in Long Preston) and in Newark (went to the beer festival this past weekend). I always fly Virgin Atlantic which flys out of Terminal 3. In years past I used to get a couple of final pints (of variable quality) while waiting for my plane at the Shakespeare Head Terminal pub. The past couple of years there has been much construction in the terminal and when I've asked where did the pub go I was told it probably would reopen after construction. Well this year construction is over and still no pub. There is an Irish bar, a TGI Friday and a trendy upscale bar, and none have real ale.

Is this true for all Heathrow terminals?

I miss my final pints of Flowers Original. The handpumps always seemed to get a fair amount of action when I visited the terminal pub.

I can get better beer in some of the Terminals in Newark (New Jersey) Airport than I can in Heathrow now a days. Terminal C has a Brooklyn Brewery bar.

Bruce CAMRA member from New Jersey

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Bruce
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I've not been in T3 recently, but...

The cask beer position at UK airports has always been very variable. These 'pubs' get ripped out and remodelled almost by the year. There used to be a Wetherspoons 'pub' at Gatwick south terminal landside, which was awful, and some sort of Bass Taverns 'olde Englishe' pub airside (which served good Draught Bass and was much better than you'd expect). Apparently the Gatwick airside pub is no more,

Airport operators aren't very interested in selling cask beer, and most travellers (even Brits) aren't interested in drinking it - in fact, most of them don't know what it is.

Best regards, Paul

-- Paul Sherwin Consulting

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Paul Sherwin

No. You can certainly get real ale at what is now a Wetherspoons in Terminal 1, landside. I can remember when it was a Tap 'n Spile, and the late Oliver Reed used to drink there. The beer quality seems to have sunk since the change, though, and Mr. R. is no longer with us - no direct connection, I hope.

Terminal 3 is the only terminal at Heathrow I've never used. so I can't comment.

Thanks for the tip - I do believe the last time I flew out of there (on People Express - remember them?) there wasn't an open bar at

0230hrs. And if there was, it certainly didn't sell decent beer.
Reply to
Mike Roebuck

No real ale at the York Railfest either. Pretty sad in the context.

Brian

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BrianW

There were three or four Titanic beers on offer on Monday, plus a commemoratively-labelled bottled beer (though that might not have been real ale). Also a stand doing non-real ale.

Not surprisingly The Maltings had a fair few people who'd been to Railfest. The Last Drop pub was rather empty when we went, though.

GNER doen't seem to have any decent bottled beers any more.

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Arthur Figgis

What happened to the proposed CAMRA bar then?

(I thought things had gone a bit quiet)

Reply to
Mike Roebuck

I noticed that today. Probably weren't selling enough of it. It's a shame, but then I usually drink wine on GNER - they tend to have some really good ones (including the 2002 Barco Reale from Tuscany at the moment).

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Mike Roebuck

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