Beer garden season is well and truly over and we’re heading into the pints inside the pub time of year.
And as you and your mates enter the stand-offs to try and bag a few seats while the others elbow their way to the front of the bar, the round’s order hardly changes.
Most of us who drink are set in our ways when it comes to our preferred pint, only straying on the rare occasion. But while you might be an Amstel sipper or a Guinness splitter, plenty opt for a nice crisp pint of something else.
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However, it’s bad news for that lot as Wetherspoons is going to stop selling the hugely popular beer brand across the entire UK.
Yep, there’s going to be no more San Miguel at Spoons.
You’ve got a few weeks left to request a pint of the stuff at the bar but then it’ll be vanishing altogether from the chain’s pumps.
Wetherspoons announced this big change will come into place from the end of November.
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It’s going to hit some pup-goers hard though, as the recent YouGov poll of the most popular beer and cider brands in the UK puts San Miguel right in first place.
The beer might not necessarily have the highest fame rating with 95 percent, but it does have the highest popularity at 61 percent. It’s followed by Guinness with a popularity of 53 percent before Kopparberg at 51 percent.
Scrapping the San Miguel, Spoons will be selling Poretti instead which isn’t actually on YouGov’s list at all.
At most venues, this will be priced at £3.99 a pint but if you go down the pub on a Monday, you’ll be able to get it for £3.20 instead as part of the money-saving ‘Monday Club’ deal.
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Poretti dates right back to 1877 and it’s said the beer has been pitched to Wetherspoons staff as a brew ‘with lots of heritage’.
However, not everyone is partiuclalry pleased with this change as one user wrote on X: “Spoons doing away with San Miguel is this a joke.”
“WETHERSPOONS HAVE STOPPED DOING SAN MIGUEL?!?!” another panicked.
Others said they ‘shed a tear’ over the news. Although, one said: “Spoons getting rid of San Miguel is a massive shrug of the shoulders really.”
Well, pint of Poretti anyone?
Topics: Wetherspoons, Pubs, Alcohol, Food And Drink
Jess Battison