Joe,

I don't know if you have been to a UK pub (I believe Ian Robb was British) but I feel you are being a little optimistic in your verse. The number of real pubs in the UK is decreasing at an alarming rate. Bar staff are not well paid and seem to have little knowledge of how to keep real ale. Brew pubs are sometimes more expensive and some of their product in my recent experience tempts me to quote Al Jolson when he tried British beer and advised that it should be "poured back into the horse".
Unfortunately one of the pubs where this occurs happens to be one of very few pubs that has live music sessions so when I attend I have to revert to bottled beer.