This is too true.The problem with all that warmth and tired legs isn't the initial quiet pint of IPA etc... it's the four noisy ones that always seem like a great idea after the first one...
Actually, personally, while I enjoy the first beer, I must say that I have always thoroughly savoured and really relished that second quiet, restful, restorative, beer, for you are now relaxed (and gloriously warm, and you are still in a (sufficiently sober) position to appreciate, savour, relish, and be thankful for, those flickering flames, the cosy warmth, the fantastic flagstones, the wonderful wooden beams of the pub).