The Baron Cadogan, Reading

This is a smaller Spoons consisting of a square room with the bar on th right and fairly typical furnishings. It was doing a good trade when I turned up around midday on a Saturday. It's a single storey building so they haven't managed to find anywhere up or down several flights of stairs to place the toilets but I bet they tried. The standard guest ale price here is £2.65 making it more expensive than any of my regular JDW haunts in London. There are only eight hand pumps but there was a full selection, the house Cadogan Gold, the JDW Trio Of Doom, Caledonian Ithaca Nut Brown, Loddon's Hullabaloo, Cairngorm Black Gold and Triple fff Apache Rose Peacock. I went for the Hullabaloo (£2.65) which was in excellent nick. I thought this was a good Spoons and found it a lot pleasanter than any of the three in the middle of Reading.