Friday 18 September 2009

Good Beer Guide 2010

Roger Protz heads his introduction to CAMRA's latest Good Beer Guide, "the battle for survival". The reasons for the decline in public house numbers are various, and I had better not make my own guesses here while there is a committee of Neath Port Talbot council looking at the subject of alcohol abuse. I see that another local, the Harp, Skewen, is almost certainly finished; there is a planning application in for its conversion to flats.

Amid all the doom and gloom, the Green Dragon and the Crown & Sceptre in Cadoxton keep their doors open. Indeed, the latter continues its status in the Good Beer Guide 2010.

Other pubs in the county borough which are listed are the Butchers at Alltwen, the Pontardawe Inn ("Gwachel") and the Pink Geranium in Pontardawe, the Borough Arms and the David Protheroe in Neath, the Lord Caradoc in Port Talbot and the Wern Fawr in Ystalyfera.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"...I see that another local, the Harp, Skewen, is almost certainly finished: there is a planning application in for its conversion to flats"

With the demise of the "local" people are getting their supplies of Alcohol from either Supermarkets of Off-licences; the implication for domestic abuse is obvious, more alcohol fueled violence in the home!

Tony Green said...

I am glad pubs are closing, in fact I think they should all be FORCED to. Alcohol is dangerous to health and the damage is often inflicted on others in society.

Like the smoking ban, there should be no exceptions. One can never be sure that the customers of any pub won't one day badly harm someone.