The Square Peg (JD Wetherspoon), Birmingham

A large narrow Wethers. 20 handpumps but how many are 'available soon' probably changes daily. A very good selection today and a very busy place on this Monday afternoon. Its similar to a lot of Wethers with no real items of interest apart from the number of handpumps.

Official site of The Square Peg (JD Wetherspoon) - www.jdwetherspoon.com

Official site of The Square Peg (JD Wetherspoon) - www.jdwetherspoon.com

Massively long narrow but soulless spoons.

This is a very long narrow bar that on an early Saturday evening already had the bouncers on the door and was rammed. Although there are four banks of five handpumps stretched along the enormous bar two of these were essentially the boring options and another had ciders from the previous festival. The final bank had Banks & Taylor SOS, Daleside Square Rigger IPA, Shepherd Neame Bishop's Finger, Harviestoun Schiehallion, Oakham Bishop's Farewell and White Horse Village Idiot. I went for the Bishop's Farewell (£2.35) which was in reasonably good nick but for some reason was served in one of those hideous dimple jugs. Maybe the barman hearing my foreign accent assumed I was a trendy East London hipster, an easy enough mistake to make. I was pleased that the prices here in the centre of Brum were the same as the Spoons in Wanstead or post refurbishment Leytonstone. Should this one be GBG 2014 listed though? Surely things are better nowadays than last time I was in the centre of Birmingham when it was ALL Ansell's and M&B.

A long thin 'spoons, so long it has toilets at each end and a confusing entrance strategy. I believe it is the ground floor of the former Lewis's department store. It's decorated in an attempt at a Deco style which doesn't really work. In all respects it's a fairly workaday 'spoons with nothing unusual to comment on, no worse than many, better than some. The choice of beers is poorer than usual and those I had were mediocre.