Drink beer at the People's Supermarket

The People's Supermarket has always seemed like a reasonable idea, even if they occasionally struggle to pay their bills, and whenever your author has met people from there they have always been jolly pleasant, but if you don't believe it, an opportunity has arrived for you to meet them first hand.


Tonight, the Supermarket launches their cookbook, with a special beer night, which offers two beers and some pie for £10. Their PR is especially likeable, as the picture your author received (above) had been seemingly mistakenly titled "Beer Poster (bit sh*t b&w)", which seemed oddly endearing.

For more, see http://tpsbeernightjune-eorg.eventbrite.co.uk/?ebtv=C

Drink Pigs Ear at the Pig's Ear

In some areas of West London, the age of the £4 pint is already upon us, and if you want to avoid it you should probably stay out of them altogether. Having said that, your author did pay this amount for a pint recently and felt it was acceptable.


Uley Pig's Ear is a beer rarely seen outside the wilds of Gloucestershire, and whenever your author sees it elsewhere he is always impressed. When chance took him out of his comfort zone to Award Winning Chelsea Gastro Pub the Pig's Ear a couple of weeks ago, where the beer brewed by Chas Wright with Cotswold Spring Water is a welcome regular, it was a pleasant surprise.

The pub is nice enough, but for any other beer it would be overpriced and full of Chelsea types. However, for a slice of home on a dark autumnal evening, it seemed good value.

For more about the pub, see http://www.thepigsear.info/