Britain shifts £37 billion pounds of booze a year, a healthy chunk going to the exchequer. Apparently a typical young bloke drinks nine pints a week on average (according to Which Magazine) and the likewise female can get through around five glasses a week down the pub. If you live up north you can probably double that number. But the pub trade is in a double recession right now, that of the one we are all in and that of the smoking ban one, the collapse of day trade seeing one-in-five pubs close down because of it. Its chick town centre bars like the Baroque in Northampton that have the biggest worries, high rents and no beer garden for the smokers costing the now vital  Read the complete review