Anecdotally, in the ten or so years that I've been on this moistened rock in the North Atlantic the choice and quality of drinks available in pubs definitely seems to have improved. The London boozer standard ten years back was a choice of warm London Pride, eggy Stella, metallic Guinness or one of those fosters/carling/grolsh/carlsbergy things that all taste equally insipid and can?t really in all honesty be called beer. Oh and a glass of wine for the ladies of course. These days you have a pretty good chance of getting something decent in most pubs.