"... when I'm paying well over three quid a pint..."

You're being robbed, Steve Shaw. I've just had two supremely lovely pints of The Bounder in The Chesterfield Arms for £2.40 each. Brewed by Leatherbreeches just for the CA, it's a pale, hoppy bitter, gloriously fruity in the mouth and with a fine lingering bitter aftertaste.

Goes extremely well with the Condor I smoke; pity it's so bloody cold!

To change the subject back to the thread's title: I once called in a pub near Earls Court tube station, as I had plenty of time before catching my train to Chesterfield. Had a pint of London Pride at near room temperature. It was unbelievably good. Had to miss that train and run (stagger quickly) for the last one of the day; good job they have loos on those trains! (I've sought that pub out since: run of the mill beer served at run of the mill temperature. I was just incredibly lucky to have caught the moment when I was in beer-drinking mood and the beer was perfect.)