draig said:
marty21 said:
The Pilot, Mumbles, can and should be added (newly turned into a very good real ale pub, and now with its own very micro Mumbles Breewery).
Otherwise there are no Swansea decent candidates good enough. Queens Hotel is sometimes excellent, its the only pub anywhere in Swansea selling Theakstons Old Peculier, and it always has that on the bar, but its other guests can be dull, it depends when you visit.
The Railway in Upper Killay, once and still potentially superb but not currently, needs new owners/management IMO. The Village Inn, in Killay (itself) is very pleasant, and usually but not always has 1 or 2 decent choices. No Sign Wine Bar in Wine St has a great cellar/cellarman and consistently keeps its beer well but needs to up its game towards less standard choices.
Other than those, we're reduced to relying on the two Wetherspoons places for interesting ale choices.
I still have hopes that either Neath or Gower breweries, or possibly Rhymney, might buy a central Swansea pub though, that's the real desert in which a revival is needed. There's plenty of run down or closed SA1 shitholes that could be turned around and made a good business of. We're going to ask Mr Gower up at the Greyhound tomorrow if we catch him!
Apparantly 'Brew Wales' blogger 'Arfur' Daley (organiser of the Great Welsh and someone we know well) was asked by deb last week in Cardiff to talk to Brains (he knows most of their people) about sorting out the Adam and Eve near the station, one of Swansea's few Brains places. If it could start to sell 1 or 2 of the new micro choices from Brains, we'd visit and hold CAMRA meetings there on occasion ...
but I'm reminding myself to check the Lansdowne out some other time. I've head some very good reports
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will be down in Mumbles in the afternoon tomorrow (Fri 24th) somewhere, some time ...
