The Iron Dragon, Merthyr Tydfil

Impressive conversion from the old Taff Fechan Water Board Offices and you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd walked into the town's Spoons at first glance. Done to a high spec inside with light wood, carpet and patterned tiling with light brown and beige being the main colour scheme. Falls apart at the bar though with a single pump sporting a reversed clip and nothing but (an admittedly wide range of) macro keg brands. Given the place is sandwiched between Spoons and the Rhymney pub I suspect they don't see the point of a cask ale. Service was polite and a new barmaid coming on shift was pointed to me as being the next punter to be served. It's a neat conversion and was already filling-up 12.15pm including a number of the old boys watching the horse racing. For the record, I made do with a half of Madri. Worth a nose if you wash-up in Merthyr and I preferred this to the Spoons, which was scruffy.