There are 731 JD Wetherspoons pubs in the UK. Some are great, some are not so great. Rate your spoons and tell everyone what to expect.
There are some great offers on Kopparberg’s Strawberry and Lime cider at the moment.
I spotted that my local Morrison’s has it on offer for £1.50 and according to mysupermarket.co.uk Sainsbury’s is selling it at £1.67 a bottle until 31/08/2010.
Have you found it cheaper?
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The Briar Rose hotel is perfect for both the business client or tourists. It is slap bang in the middle of Birmingham’s financial district and a short stroll away from New Street Station and many of Birminghams attractions such as: The Bull Ring shopping centre, Broad Street, The Symphony Hall and The NIA. It also it attached to a Wetherspoons pub that has recently been featured in The Good Beer Guide. Read more…
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The Portland Wetherspoons hotel is perfectly located in Chesterfield town centre. It was built in 1899 to serve the new Market Place Railway Station and is now a popular hotel for both business and pleasure
Chesterfield is a historic market town famous for its Church with the Crooked Spire. It also has one of the largest open-air markets in Britain. It is a great place to go for shopping, entertainment and nightlife and there is plenty to suit all ages. Read more…
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Since writing the review of Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime Cider yesterday I came across their taste-o-vision advert.
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In Kopparberg’s words: The juice of strawberries and limes is added to Kopparberg’s Apple Cider to deliver an intense fruity tasting cider with an unmistakable strawberry aroma. Sensational does not even begin to cover it!
My favourite new drink so far this summer is the Strawberry and Lime Cider from Kopparberg. It took a lot of time for some of the Wetherspoons to get it in stock, while some others have had it in for a while. Unfortunately I‘ve found that it is out of stock more often than not at my local Wetherspoons. It’s hardly surprising though because it is delicious.
So, what does Kopparbergs Strawberry and Lime cider taste like? Well for a start it actually does taste of strawberries. I remember trying the Brothers strawberry cider and not being very impressed but this is very, very different. In fact other than saying that it tastes like strawberries with a hint of lime there is not much else to say.
If you think it’s as nice as I do and you want to get your fridge stocked up then you’ll be pleased to hear that it is easy to get hold of.
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Majestic Wine have some great offers on at the moment. You’ll have to be quick as they end on 19th July.
Perhaps most famous for its prestige cuvée ‘Cristal’, Roederer Brut Premier is a serious non-vintage Champagne. Deliciously rich, with an overt fruitiness and nutty, yeasty notes, the finish is long, complex and rewarding.
Named after one of the tallest rugged peaks to the southeast of the vineyard, The Ned offers superb purity of fruit and varietal character. A nose of nettles and grass leads to generous gooseberry flavours with a smoky herbal twist on the palate reminiscent of a well-crafted Sancerre. The stony terroir gives the wine a subtle gun flint minerality which delivers extra complexity.
Improved Offer = £7.49 Buy any 2 New Zealand still wines save 20% = £5.99
This is a gloriously deep, bright rosé colour with rich fruit flavours and a long lingering finish. If you’re not normally a rosé drinker this tasty example will convert you!
Oddbins have got together with Chang Beer – the taste of Thailand – to offer one lucky winner and a friend that opportunity to win a 2 week holiday to Thailand.
The winner will spend 10 nights in one of Thailand’s most popular resorts as well as 3 nights in Bangkok
Chang Beer describes itself as the outcome of some visionary thinking. Chang Beers creators thought that Thailand’s natural and human resources could come together to produce an authentic Thai beer that has an international quality.
To enter the competition click here
Chang beer has won a whole host of international awards including the coveted Gold Medal from the Beverage Tasting Institute. Chang is now gaining popularity across the UK thanks to its crisp, but smooth and hoppy taste. It is a great match for Thai food and just about anything else!
Wetherspoons new menu launched this week. There are not as many changes as last time but it does have a selection of new dishes to you to enjoy and a selection of new side order options.
They have also launched the ‘Wetherspoons Foodie Guide’. This aims to make it easier for customers to choose food that matches their dietary needs.
The biggest and perhaps most welcome new addition to the Wetherspoons menu is the new simple steak and chips.
Wetherspoons have listened to their customers who told them that they wanted the option of just steak and chips. So you can now have an 8oz rump steak, served with chips. It is also cheaper than the other steak options so as well as being tasty it is great value for money. But for those of you who like extra trimmings their full steak and grill range is still on the menu.
Again Wetherspoons have listened to what their customers want. People are now wanting to know more information about the food they eat. Wetherspoons have had a food facts section on their website for over three years now that let customers work out the dietary values of the food on their menu. Wetherpoons has already won many plaudits, including those from the Food Standards Agency, for amount of detail they provide about their food. They launched a nutritional information leaflet in 2009 that let customers in the pubs to look dietary information for all of their dishes. They have now taken this one stop further, in addition to the leaflet and the online guide they have now launched the Wetherspoons Foodie Guide which covers way more than just the calories, fat or salt content of the food, the welfare of the animals used and the countries of origin.
The Wetherspoons Foodie Guide tells you about:
So you can enjoy your Wetherspoons food and know what is in it.
One of my favorite drinks at Wetherspoons is Buffalo 
Trace Bourbon and diet pepsi. I love that the Wetherspoons drinks menu is so wide and varied that it includes such rare bourbons like this. I have never seen it for sale in any other pub, so this is my special treat when I go to spoons.
However this leaves me with a problem, as I have also never seen it for sale in any of the supermarkets or off licenses I’ve looked in. I have found a few places that sell it online but there are not many and I will add to this list when I find anymore.
If you have not tried Buffalo Trace yet then I really recommend you do. It’s got such a sweet, mellow flavour that you do not have to be a whiskey lover to appreciate it and it is a lovely change if you are usually a whiskey drinker. This bourbon is described in more detail in our Buffalo Trace Bourbon review.
There seem to be mixed feelings about this. Some saying that they love Monster and others hating it. What do you think?
Monster is America’s top selling energy drink and sells over 1 billion cans a year, so it has won over America, has it won over Wetherspoons customers? The red bull replacement was introduced at the same time as a whole range of new drinks.
Whether you prefer Moster energy drinks to Red Bull or not if you like to mix your energy drinks with a spirit then you will be no doubt pleased to learn that you can now buy them as one drink rather than having to buy the energy drink and the vodka or jagermeister separately and mix them yourself. So the Jager Monster is one of the new drinks on the Wetherspoons drinks menu. Not only can you now buy this premixed as a double Jager and Monster but you can even now buy a pitcher.
