The Itchen Valley Brewery Tap

Which Wetherspoons was this? Was it fairly local to Itchen Valley? i.e. Winchester, Southampton, etc.

I disagree (great this freedom of opinion stuff!). I rarely find Itchen Valley beer around and love to drink a pint of Godfathers or Pure Gold - yum!

Alex.

In article , Slacker writes

No, it was The Grid Inn, Southfields, London.

The Pure Gold is quite drinkable, but most the others...

z@127.0.0.1 (z@127.0.0.1) sucked my c*ck, and then posted this (oO0K7$I7Xb+ snipped-for-privacy@newbrain.demon.co.uk):

In marked contrast to the situation of a few years ago, JDW seem to be very big on local beers these days - albeit always from their preferred suppliers.

In East Anglia we always get several Ridleys and Woodfordes beers in every JDW. I have also noticed a preponderance of Itchen Valley beers in the Hants area, and Loddon in the Thames Valley area.

BTN

"Sir Benjamin Nunn" - a made-up name if ever I've heard one - said

The two Wetherspoons in Lancaster often advertise beers they haven't got, and leave them displayed as available after you've found out they're not on.

In article , loobyloo writes

Mine has a chalk-board proclaiming all the beers that are coming and how proud they are of them, but all they seem to have is Itchen Valley which is neither on the board or in the tasting notes; I think I might follow the exodus.

Prometheus - a made-up name if ever I've heard one - said

I've resolved never to go in the ones in Lancaster again. The air conditioning is freezing, the staff can't pour a pint of real ale without half of it spilling over the side of the glass, there's never the full range of beers advertised, and someone died after a fight outside one of them the other week.

I know it will sound very snobbish, but if you sell cheap beer, you sometimes get cheap people.

In article , loobyloo writes

It does also depend on the area, my local Wetherspoons gets mostly reasonable people (staff and customers), not far away a typical priced pub has semi-evolved simians both sides of the bar. I think I might be doing an injustice to simians, they are more accurately described as failed alpha males (mostly gammas). There is nothing snobbish in choosing articulate educated company.