... I then popped in to the Queen's Arms on Warwick Wat, London SW1.
The young black/ginger-haired man started so well with pouring it out;
he gave it three very rapid pulls. I really thought everything was
going to be fantastic, and I didn't mind paying £3.30 for a pint.
Butt hen the head disappeared rapidly. So I thought 'd ask for a top
iup. Believe me, I do that very rarely. My Mum's family is from
Newcastle and I was brought up to like big heads like wee bobby
thompson.
He was not happy about topping up the pint, so he sort of met me in
the middle; he gave me abut an extra 50p's worth.
AND IT WAS GARBAGE. Very vinaigree, warm as a fart in a spacesuit.

What a disaster!

On 13-Jun-09 15:56:47, Offramp said
>... I then popped in to the Queen's Arms on Warwick Wat, London SW1.
>The young black/ginger-haired man started so well with pouring it out;
>he gave it three very rapid pulls. I really thought everything was
>going to be fantastic, and I didn't mind paying £3.30 for a pint.
>Butt hen the head disappeared rapidly. So I thought 'd ask for a top
>iup. Believe me, I do that very rarely. My Mum's family is from
>Newcastle and I was brought up to like big heads like wee bobby
>thompson.
>He was not happy about topping up the pint, so he sort of met me in
>the middle; he gave me abut an extra 50p's worth.
>AND IT WAS GARBAGE. Very vinaigree, warm as a fart in a spacesuit.

>What a disaster!


It may just be me, but I've never really got on with Doom Bar, but that's
probably just down to my taste. A pint that I frequently find to be
genuinely dodgy though is 6X. I don't know why that should be the case.


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In article
,
   Angus Manwaring  wrote:
> AND IT WAS GARBAGE. Very vinaigree, warm as a fart in a spacesuit.

> >What a disaster!

> It may just be me, but I've never really got on with Doom Bar, but that's
> probably just down to my taste.

It may just be me (but from other comments I don't think so) but I find
beer in London to be warm and flat [1] a lot of the time.
Probably a lot of uncooled cellars. 

[1]  I don't like fizzy beer but I do like *some* condition in the beer.

-- 

Steve Pampling

When down in the West country, we always looked
forward to Doom Bar. Sorry to hear it's slipped.
Used to be one of the steadies.

sam wrote:
> When down in the West country, we always looked
> forward to Doom Bar. Sorry to hear it's slipped.
> Used to be one of the steadies.

I think you'll find it is perfectly excellent in general but the OP went to a 
pub that couldn't be bothered to look after it.


-- 
Peter 'Prof' Fox
Multitude of things for beer, cycling, Morris and curiosities at 
<http://vulpeculox.net>

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:56:47 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
 wrote:

I had an excellent pint of it today in my local.

Only ever enjoyed it in The Old Success at Seenen Cove.

Bit like certain other 'flagships' that never seem as good in the guest 
trade.

eg:

6X
Pedigree
Double Dragon
Tiger
London Pride
Landlord
Bombardier
Tanglefoot

John Sullivan wrote:
> Only ever enjoyed it in The Old Success at Seenen Cove.
> 
Yessss. That was the place. Lovely pub. Good food.
Good ales. We stayed in a b&b down by land's end and walked
across to Sennen Cove to The Old Success. Great memories!

> Bit like certain other 'flagships' that never seem as good in the guest 
> trade.
Absolutely agree with that statement, and the list.

On 20-Jun-09 15:54:09, John Sullivan said
>Only ever enjoyed it in The Old Success at Seenen Cove.

>Bit like certain other 'flagships' that never seem as good in the guest
>trade.

>eg:

>6X
>Pedigree
>Double Dragon
>Tiger
>London Pride
>Landlord
>Bombardier
>Tanglefoot


Yes, I never really seem to enjoy 6X or London Pride. I found myself stuck
in a pub for the evening recently, that served both of them, and nothing
else.  :)




                  All the best,
                        Angus Manwaring.       (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)

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In message <KC7%l.6870$c46.589@newsfe20.ams2>, John Sullivan 
 wrote
>Only ever enjoyed it in The Old Success at Seenen Cove.
>
>Bit like certain other 'flagships' that never seem as good in the guest
>trade.
>
>eg:
>
>6X
>Pedigree
>Double Dragon
>Tiger
>London Pride
>Landlord
>Bombardier
>Tanglefoot
>

But surely most of the above have been deliberately dumbed down and 
brewed to a price for the pub company estate trade?

Once a beer become a national brand it tends to be sold in a lot pubs 
where the landlord/manager doesn't know or doesn't care about keeping 
and serving  a real ale. As a result you are more likely to get a pint 
of something that once resembled the original beer.


-- 
Alan
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"Alan"  wrote in message 
news:Cn+zlPHvpjPKFw5Y@amac.f2s.com...
> In message <KC7%l.6870$c46.589@newsfe20.ams2>, John Sullivan 
>  wrote
>>Only ever enjoyed it in The Old Success at Seenen Cove.
>>
>>Bit like certain other 'flagships' that never seem as good in the guest
>>trade.
>>
>>eg:
>>
>>6X
>>Pedigree
>>Double Dragon
>>Tiger
>>London Pride
>>Landlord
>>Bombardier
>>Tanglefoot
>>
>
> But surely most of the above have been deliberately dumbed down and brewed 
> to a price for the pub company estate trade?
>
> Once a beer become a national brand it tends to be sold in a lot pubs 
> where the landlord/manager doesn't know or doesn't care about keeping and 
> serving  a real ale. As a result you are more likely to get a pint of 
> something that once resembled the original beer.
>
Spot on.

>>>6X
>>>Pedigree
>>>Double Dragon
>>>Tiger
>>>London Pride
>>>Landlord
>>>Bombardier
>>>Tanglefoot
>>>
>>
>> But surely most of the above have been deliberately dumbed down and brewed 
>> to a price for the pub company estate trade?
>>
>> Once a beer become a national brand it tends to be sold in a lot pubs 
>> where the landlord/manager doesn't know or doesn't care about keeping and 
>> serving  a real ale. As a result you are more likely to get a pint of 
>> something that once resembled the original beer.
>>
>Spot on. 
>
My local pub seves a lot of Bombardier-I rarely drink it as I normally
go for the guest ales and tend to overlook it.
Had a pint recently though and it was a revelation.If all pubs served
it like that the sales would rocket.

"valeofbelvoirdrinker"  wrote in message 
news:uuup35t4bojg32874q91b7iu0svkt2kijk@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:56:47 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
>  wrote:
>
> I had an excellent pint of it today in my local.

I   had a not very good pint of it last week in the Pride of Spitalfields on 
Heneage Street in East London.

And the Crouch Vale Brewers Gold was off as well.  Pity always found it 
excellent in the past.

>
> But surely most of the above have been deliberately dumbed down and brewed 
> to a price for the pub company estate trade?
>

Actually in my experience no. It is more to do with how the beer has been 
kept which for a lot of beers in the last is often pretty badly.

Brett