I thought I would insert a moment of reason into this debate, and I really can't UBT get away with this old saw.
It's a well known fact that London Pride does not 'travel well'
Hold on lad, don't try your slippery London ways on me. The beer doesn't travel, indeed! Did you learn that one and your Granddad's knee? It's what people always say when they want to keep it to themselves. I remember there was an entire series of Carlsberg adverts dedicated to the proposition that the entire Danish population hated Carlsberg international dray drivers since they drove the stuff out of Denmark. Since the British style of ales {IPA} was honed over the years for export to India I don't think it's likely to have a nervous breakdown coming 120 miles along the M4 to Bristol.
Cider, of course, is a quite different matter and the decent stuff flatly refuses to leave the West Country. Which is why the rest of the country wanting an apple drink has to put up with Strongbow or similar filthy muck.
