Spiral City

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  1. Red

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    First time I've been in, decent.

    Stancill Barnsley Bitter and Lervig Loudspeaker.
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    RedVesp, Mar 15, 2022
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    Do they sell cheesecake or buns? :)
     
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    Agreed, we met @fired in there before a recent match, very nice bar.
     
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    It appears to be a pastry free zone unfortunately!
     
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    What..... not even a pastry stout? *tuts indignantly*
     
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    I wish they'd order more BrewDog Planet Pale to go with those BrewDog Planet Pale glasses they keep using!
     
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    Been in a couple of times, seems to be pretty popular and I'm glad as there's a lack of places in the centre of town that do good real ale/craft beer. To say we're all supposed to love our real ale up north, it's surprising how many bars/pubs there are that just serve lagers and the odd mainstream "craft" beer. Glad to see it's improving slowly though.
     
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    Reyt Boozer that and Heaven & Ale are my favourites
     
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    In all honesty I've never tried brew dog stuff, I know you're biased but is it really any good? :D
     
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    All depends where you are on your beer journey. Some have moved beyond it in to all the weird, wonderful and magical stuff. Some are absolute die hard fans and hardly drink anything else. Others still think it's dragged up water from the Thames. And then there's folk like myself that drink all sorts from everywhere, but love the consistency and reliability of having BrewDog on when you're not wanting to take a risk on something you don't know.

    Hazy Jane is a superb beer though. Would say I could drink it for days but at 5% you really can't - even if it tastes like you can. It's the fastest growing craft beer in the UK, with Lost Lager the fastest growing craft lager in the UK as well. So it's definitely alright regardless of what I say.
     
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    Real ale is mainly down to volume/rate of sale mate. Covid/Pandemic has put paid to many a pub putting on a decent cask offer until there's more of a guarantee that folk are regularly coming back through the doors.

    It's absolute madness that a pint of cask costs less to buy than keg, when you consider the amount of effort that goes in to it. If the throughout put isn't there, quality goes down, wastage goes up, and customers go out of the door. Huge balancing act for licensees these days. If you've got three ales on the bar you really need to be knocking out 400+ pints a week.
     
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    Frankly, people just have to find their own tastes and use their own judgements on what they want to support. We've got a share in Brewdog from way back when to help fund their brewery expansion, though its lost no doubt and no idea if it could ever be sold.

    It was a front runner in the beer revolution, though it's not a brewery we'd tend to search out anymore and if we were able, we'd veer towards the underdogs and anything thats local for that area.

    Though we have been in plenty of their bars. From Birmingham to Bristol to Brick Lane to near Tower bridge to just round the corner from the colosseum in Rome. They did some really good collab/takeovers in the tower bridge one when it opened (though its a bit of a faff to get to for us) and we did go purposefully for the Omnipollo one, but wasn't enamoured with the food, so it didn't make it to the list of fail safes depending what area of London we were in.

    I also think it's often a case of being influenced by whatever you try initially, and once the name sticks with you and you've tried 3 or 4 maybe that don't whet your whistle, the dye is likely cast. Vice versa, if you really like the first one you try, you're perhaps more likely to give more a go.

    But everyone has their own rule of thumb. As long as people enjoy and do so responsibly, it's all beer.
     
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    The stuff in The Guardian at the weekend was a bit concerning!

    I’m still a fan and you’re right about Spiral City shane they don’t sell any.
     
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    All about how you frame a story though right? Never good to read anything with your company name in, but we've got form these last few months for headlines and when it rains it pours.
     
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    I'm a big fan of Stancill. I was in one of their pubs at the weekend.
     
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    First pint I've had from them, but if that bitter is anything to go by it's a great brewery.
     
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    +1 for Hazy Jane. Even the cans of it taste great for suppin' at home. Usually get 12 cans for £12-14 quid too. Like wise for the Vocation Life &Death.

    Not been up to Spiral City yet but do intend to.
     
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    Which is the smallest town in the UK with a Brewdog pub?
     
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    Good question. I would go with Swansea or Carlisle without scrolling through the house list. Although there's a couple of Scottish ones in small places (Like St.Andrews and Perth).
     
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