The Posset Cup (JD Wetherspoon), Portishead, Bristol

By pure coincidence I turned up here exactly one year after it opened (23rd Feb). Never having been to Portishead before I was dismayed to see, certainly in this part of it, the worst excesses of urban planning with much modern housing (probably built on a flood plain), supermarkets, budget hotels, fitness clubs and more flood plain housing. This place fits in well with that as it is surrounded by all of it and is a purpose built pub that looks like a gymnasium. Inside it's been well described below and on my Thursday early afternoon visit it was doing a good trade of mostly food. The beers on the twelve hand pumps were the JDW Trio Of Doom, Thornbridge Jaipur IPA and Great Newsome Frothingham Best doubled plus a single cider and Bombardier. I went for the Jaipur (£2.75) which was in good nick and the person serving it remarked on how well it had been selling. Although I wasn't that keen on it there's nothing really wrong with this place and the Jaipur was a plus. If I return to this area I'll try and find Old Portishead.