The Briar Rose (JD Wetherspoon), Birmingham

Not a bad spoons this. Gets really busy as it is close to New Street and it is a hotel. Always a decent choice of beers on with 6 guests from the current festival on my last visit. The 2 we tried were in good shape.

Very busy and noisy spoons , service was OK as was the beer quality , Yeovil Lynx Wildcat and Davonports Bitter both in good nick .

Wethers-by-numbers territory here. Not good, not bad.

Large by the numbers spoons( partly cordoned off for refurbishment).

This is a city centre Spoons that was alarmingly busy at 10:00 on Saturday with both drinkers and people having breakfasts. It's also a JDW hotel but I can't believe all these people were staying here. It's one big room with the usual mix of Spoons furniture. The bar has two banks of five pumps the "boring" one having the 2 GK beers, Pride, a cider and a festival Wadworth Ye Old Admiral. The "interesting" one had festival Daleside New Dawn & Adnam's Golden Road California Breakfast Ale, Doom Bore, Oakleaf Blake's Gosport Bitter and Rooster's Fort Smith. I went for the Daleside beer (£2.35) which was in good nick but as it transpired dearer than the "Earlybird" beer offering up the road in the Wellington. It's not a bad Spoons but if it's so busy at 10:00am on a Saturday how busy does it get?