The Red Well (JD Wetherspoon), Wellingborough

As noted below this looks like it should be a huge Spoons as the front of it seems enormous but once inside it is actually smaller than average as it is wide but doesn't extend back very far. It's a low ceilinged single room all carpeted apart from the immediate bar area. There are the obligatory fruit machines here, five in this case which are intrusive as they are spread through the central part of the room. It was fairly quiet on my Friday morning visit with a solitary member of the daytime brigade propping up the bar and drinking bottles of scrumpy, but he wasn't hardcore as I spotted him on the bus back to Northampton a few hours later. Although there are 12 hand pumps on the bar the beer choice was poor. the two GK beers were doubled up then there were two boring options from the Marston's stable (Hobgoblin and Piledriver) available soon, two ciders, Adnam's Broadside and Hambleton's Nightmare which was off despite the clip showing otherwise. This left just two beer options Celtic Experience Dark Age and Grainstore Rutland Osprey. The Rutland Osprey was in good nick but the Dark age was in excellent condition. Both were priced at £2.10. I thought this was a better than average Spoons which makes it a shame that the beer selection let it down.

The Red Well is a Spoons with quite a long frontage. Once inside there was very long oblong shaped room which ran the width of the pub,the bar faced,either end of the room extended slightly to the rear. The seating was the usuall Spoons type,the diners prefered the left side of the room,there were about 10 pumps on the bar,3 had those daft yankee type beers on,which i wont drink,this left me with only two beers to choose from apart from the usuall Spoons regulars,i had a drink of Lees Game On which was a decent drink,the other beers i noted were RCH East Street Cream,Ruddles Best,Doom Bar and GK Abbot. The pub was quite busy on my Saturday morning visit with decent civilised types of drinkers. Pub visited 21/6/2014