wetherspoons.

well, the end of an era is at hand. upon leaving the cinema the other day, we found ourselves in the spoons. i maintained, it's good, cheap ale, but something was wrong in the empire. on our arrival, i immediately noticed that their 'cask marque' signs on the hand pumps had gone. odd, i thought. i asked for a brain's rev james, but they said it was off. oh, i thought. you'd have thought they'd follow tradition and turn the frontage around or put an empty glass over it, more so after i asked, but no. to push the point home, i made laurence ask for two pints of the same when he was ordering his drinks. i asked if any of the ales were dark at all. "like bitter? yes, they all are" said the manager (?). i was close to giving up and ordered a pint of forgettable name. tommy had an evarard's sunthinggy. both were headless and watery, giving good evidence for why wetherspoons had lost their cask marque; they'd given up. their was probably not the demand for quality ale in spoons. so they'd thought they could just keep the ales on, but treat them like crap. just goes to show really.