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Alexia
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Tonight I have just joined CAMRA. For £14 for 15 months membership, plus £20 vouchers off Wetherspoons' drinks, it's well worth the money.

Anyone else a member and/or appreciator of real ales / bitters?
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Ronnie Rowlands
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Alexia wrote: £20 vouchers off Wetherspoons' drinks, it's well worth the money.
Eh, what? You get £20 off drinks there? Meaning that an average drink would cost you -£18? I don't understand.
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Gavin Scott
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There's a gay CAMRA ale pub near me, called The Regent - but I'm not an ale man.
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Alexia
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Ronnie Rowlands wrote:
Alexia wrote: £20 vouchers off Wetherspoons' drinks, it's well worth the money.
Eh, what? You get £20 off drinks there? Meaning that an average drink would cost you -£18? I don't understand.
Sorry - £20 worth of vouchers - when they arrive I'm assuming they'll be like "buy one beer get one free" or something like that - or "£5 off when you buy £10-worth"
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The downside would be drinking in a weatherspoons. The "Foot of the Walk" in Leith is full of dirty old soaks.

But ale drinkers do enjoy their nights in the pub chatting away, which suits me very much - so I'm fond of ale in that respect.
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Jake
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I'm a fan of real ale, but really not of Wetherspoon's.
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Alexia
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I've always found Spoons to be attractive and open places. Yes, they're as sanitised as fuck, and completely depersonal, but I've been in branches in Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, Falmouth, Leicester Square, Weymouth, Brum and Manchester and never had any fault with any of them. Their ale appreciation is appreciated by those of us who like trying regional flavours and who don't just want the same fizzy shite everywhere we go.
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Ronnie Rowlands
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I once ate a burger there which tasted like cardboard.

It was the worst burger I've ever eaten. And I've eaten a lot of burgers.
Ronnie is victorious, vivacious in victory like a venomous dog. Vile Republicans cease living while the religious retort with rueful rhetoric. These rank thugs resort to violence and swear revenge.

But Ronnie can punch through steel so they lose anyway.
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Alexia
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I think that was a mischevious staff taking advantage of a poor blind vicar.
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Ronnie Rowlands
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Perhaps they're not happy that the vicar in question gives them for free during the Victorian Extravaganza.
Ronnie is victorious, vivacious in victory like a venomous dog. Vile Republicans cease living while the religious retort with rueful rhetoric. These rank thugs resort to violence and swear revenge.

But Ronnie can punch through steel so they lose anyway.
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Nick Harvey
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Not being a real ale man, I'm not a CAMRA member, but living in the centre of what they're now calling Wadworthshire, I know an awful lot of people who are.
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